Bibliographies

Rueil Malmaison / Gérard Soncarrieu, Les Grandes Heures de Rueil-Malmaison, 1990 (on sale at the Tourist Office, 12 rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier. Here you will find other books covering the history of the city and many small souvenirs concerning Bonaparte, Josephine and the Malmaison Estate: drawings, etchings, porcelain pieces, historic figurines, etc.). The Malmaison and Bois-Préau […]

Further information and greater detail on the literary movements of the First and the Second Empires: Précis de littérature française du XIXe siècle, edited by Madeleine Ambrière, PUF, 1990. Descotes Maurice, La Légende de Napoléon et les écrivains du XIXe siècle, Minard, 1967. L.H. Lecomte, Napoléon et le monde dramatique, Daragon, 1912. P. Martino, Le […]

Here are a few books we recommend on Parisian gardens: ALPHAND Adolphe, Les promenades de Paris, 2 volumes. Paris: Rothschild, 1867-1873; reprint Princeton Architectural Press, 1984. This volume bears witness to the crucial role played by the outstanding engineer Alphand in creating urban park projects. Illustrated with numerous period drafts, engravings, drawings of park furniture, […]

To find out more about New York and Napoleon James David Draper, The Arts under Napoleon, works selected from the Metropolitan Museum of Art holdings and other New York collections, 1978. The Age of Napoleon, costume from Revolution to Empire 1789-1815, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1989. The Metropolitan […]

On the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire Godechot, J., “The coup d’état of Brumaire (November 1799)”, in The Cambridge Modern History, vol. IX, Cambridge C.U.P., 1965, pp. 294-295. Goodspeed, D. J., Bayonets at St. Cloud. The Story of the 18 Brumaire, New York: Rupert Hart Davis, 1964, p. 192. ——————, Napoleon’s Eighty Days, Boston: Houghton […]

Works in French: Dufraisse, R., Kerautret, M., La France napoléonienne. Aspects extérieurs. 1799-1815, Paris : Ed. du Seuil, 1999, 334 p. (coll. Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine – 5) Dufraisse, R., L’Allemagne à l’époque napoléonienne, Bonn [u.a.] : Bouvier, 1992. – (Pariser historische Studien ; 34) Fondation Napoléon Grand Prix d’histoire for 1992 Dufraisse, R., […]

Books – Battles for Scandinavia, Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1981, 208p, ISBN- 0809433974 – A Dictionary of Soldier Talk (with Cragg, Dan J., and Deal, Ernest L.), New York: Scribner, 1984, ISBN 0684178621 – The Superstrategists: great captains, theorists, and fighting men who have shaped the history of warfare, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985 […]