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Want to take it to the next level? Our unique thematic bibliographies (on political events, military campaigns, important figures from the period etc.) can help you get to the bottom of a First or Second Empire issue.

Geopolitics and Diplomacy

Bibliographies : 14

Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Meeting at Erfurt
Bibliography / 2nd Republic / 2nd Empire

Abd el-Kader
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Peace of Tilsit, July 1807

BOOKS In French – Casaglia, Gherardo, Le partage du monde. Napoléon et Alexandre à Tilsit. Paris, Editions SPM, 1998 (French translation of Casagli, Una zattera…, see below). – Kerautret, Michel, Les grands traités de l’Empire (1804-1810), La Bibliothèque Napoléon, NME, 2004. – Kerautret, Michel; Madec, Gabriel (eds.), Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 7, 1807 – […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Confederation of the Rhine (1806-1815)
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

France’s colonial policy, 1789 – 1815 (Documents published between 1799 and 1815)

I / CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS 1°) The colonial question during the Revolution (1789-1799) DUVAL DE SANADON (David), Discours sur l’esclavage des nègres et sur l’idée de leur affranchissement dans les colonies, Paris, Hardouin et Gattey, 1786, 126 p. Précis des gémissemens des sang-mêlés dans les colonies françoises, Paris, Baudouin, 1789, 16 p. CLARKSON (Thomas), Essai sur […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

Study and Research Bibliography for the First Empire

All the works mentioned here can be read at the Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre – Fondation Napoléon, whose catalogue is online. PRIMARY SOURCES – Almanach national de France de la République française une et indivisible / présenté aux deux Conseils et au Directoire executif par P.Testu. – Chez Testu successeur de la Ve D’Houdry. 5 vol. […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

Coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy, 26 May, 1805 in Milan

This bibliography is part of our special dossier on the coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy, 26 may, 1805 in Milan. Printed Primary Sources: – Documenti officiali relativi al nuovo regno d’Italia e all’incoronazione di Napoleone I, imperatore dei’ Francesci e re d’Italia, Milan, 1805. – Programme de la cérémonie du couronnement de S. […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Proclamation of Empire (18 May, 1804)
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Louisiana Purchase

WORKS US archival resource details online University of Texas Campus The text of the treaties – The Louisiana Purchase Treaty, and the two financial conventions, of 30th of April 1803 On Franco-American relations in general – DeConde, Alexander, The Quasi War: the politics and diplomacy of the undeclared war with France, 1797-1801, New York: Scribner’s, […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st Empire

The Peace of Amiens (1802)

A short bibliography: Text of the Amiens Peace Treaty Articles: “The Peace of Amiens”, Thierry Lentz, in La Revue Napoléon, January-February-March 2002, n° 9, p. 22-28. Books: Additional Papers, presented to the House of Commons, by Lord Hawkesbury, respecting the Discussions with France. ENGLAND. Parliament. House of Commons, London: J. Ginger: , 1803. 19 p. […]