Bibliographies

Memoirs Marie Walewska’s Memoirs: 3 versions – Version 1: belonging to the Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. Private collection. English and French versions available online at http://www.walewski.org/upload//File/Journal_de_Marie_Walewska_version_anglaise.pdf (English) and at http://www.walewski.org/upload//File/Journal_de_Marie_Walewska_version_francaise.pdf (French). – Version 2: belonging to the Count d’Ornano and held at the Chateau la Branchoire (Touraine), private collection. – Version 3: Pamiętnik Marii Walewskiej (Marie […]

This bibliography is part of our close-up on: the birth of the Roi de Rome. All links are external. Articles Aubry, Octave, “Le Roi de Rome”, in Revue de études napoléoniennes [35] XXIe année, Tome XXXV, juil.-déc. 1932, pp. 409-411 Chailloux, David, “La naissance du roi de Rome et sa représentation à l’Académie impériale de […]

In French Ceremony descriptions (all links are external and in French) Percier, Charles, & Fontaine, P. F. L., “Description des cérémonies et des fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le mariage de S.M. l’empereur Napoléon avec S.A.I. madame l’archiduchesse Marie-Louise d’Autriche”, P. Didot l’Aîné, 1810 Baltard, Louis-Pierre (drawings), “Fêtes du mariage de Napoléon et de […]

There is yet to be any detailed English language treatment of the complicated history of Napoleon’s annulled marriage. The key work remains Louis Grégoire’s Le « Divorce » de Napoléon et de l’Impératrice Joséphine, an exceptionally thorough study of the annulment process from a canonic law perspective. Monographs D’Haussonville, Comte, L’Eglise romaine et le Premier Empire, 1800-1814, […]

Books in English Ian Castle, Aspern & Wagram 1809: Mighty Clash of Empires, Osprey Publishing, 1994 Vincent J. Esposito & John R. Elting, A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, London: Greenhill Books, 1999 Gunther E. Rothenberg, Napoleon’s great adversary: archiduke Charles and the Austrian army, 1792-1814, Chalford (GB): Spellmount, 2007 Articles in […]

This bibliography forms part of our close-up on: the Battle of Aspern-Essling. The Battle Jean Tranié, L’épopée napoléonienne : les grandes batailles.  Paris, Tallandier, 1999 Renaud Faget, “La bataille d’Essling”, in Napoléon Ier : le magazine du Consulat et de l’Empire, pp. 16-29, n° 25, 03-04/2004 Michel Molières, La campagne de 1809 : Les opérations du 24 avril […]

This bibliography forms part of our close-up on: Andreas Hofer and the insurrection in the Tyrol, 1809-1810. Complete bibliography Hans Hochenegg, Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Tiroler Freiheitskampfes von 1809, Innsbruck, 1960 (more than 3,000 books and articles in German, English, French, Italian and Danish) English F. Gunther Eyck, Loyal Rebels: Andreas Hofer and the Tyrolean Uprising […]

It is with great sadness that we announce the death on Christmas Day 2008 of Captain Dr Colin White, FSA, FRHistS, MA. Colin was a passionate Nelson expert who in the twenty-first century occupied a special place during the bicentenary commemorations of the British admiral. His death is a great loss for the Nelsonian and […]

BOOKS – Waterloo, la campagne de 1815. Editions Racine, 2003 – Les magistrats des cours et des tribunaux en Belgique, 1794-1814: essai d’approche politique et sociale. Droz, 1998 – Waterloo, l’évitable défaite. Duculot, 1984, reprinted as Napoléon: la dernière bataille, Brussel, 1998. – (ed.) Napoléon face à l’Europe. Brussels 1990 ARTICLES – (ed.) “18 juin […]