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Close-upA close-up on: Abd el-KaderAbd el-Kader is considered to be one of the founders of the modern Algerian state as well as an important figure in east-west rapprochement. At the mid-point of the 19th century, he and Napoleon III were the most important figures in their respective countries, Algeria… -
Close-upA close-up on: the epoch-making Battle of AusterlitzOn 2 December 1805, north of Vienna in the present-day Czech Republic, the Austro-Russian army was completely destroyed and the Russians were made to retreat to the East. This great victory closed the German campaign. -
Close-upA close-up on: the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, 12 July, 1806After having sketched out his ideas regarding France and German lands in a letter to Talleyrand (Minister of Foreign Affairs) dated October 1805, Napoleon went further in the spring of 1806, creating a confederation of small western German states grouped around the three “principal” allies,… -
Close-upA close-up on: the Prussian CampaignThe twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, 14 October, 1806. -
Close-upA close-up on: Napoleon’s entry into Berlin, 27 October, 1806On 27 October, 1806, after the victories at Iéna and Auerstädt two weeks earlier, Napoleon rode in triumph into Berlin passing under the Brandenburg Gate. -
Close-upA close-up on: the "Continental system or Blockade"On 21 November, 1806, Napoleon decreed, from his Palace in Berlin, a blockade of the British Isles and forbade all British goods and commerce entering the continent. This came to be known as the ‘continental’ blockade since de facto most of the European continent was… -
Close-upA close-up on: the Flaubert Madame Bovary trial7 February, 1857, saw the end of the trial involving the writer Gustave Flaubert, the owner, and the printer of La Revue de Paris. The three men had been accused of insulting public morals and offending decent manners by the serialised publication of the novel…
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Close-upA close-up on: the Polish campaign: Eylau (8 February, 1807)On 8 February, 1807, there took place the appalling (and inconclusive) bloodbath at Eylau, pitching French against Prussian and Russian forces, 66,500 men versus 82,500 respectively. Despite the fact that both sides lost thousands of men, Eylau is usually recorded as a French victory since… -
Close-upA close-up on: Louis Lafitte (1770-1828), painter and draughtsmanLouis Lafitte was a painter and draughtsman specialising in allegories and great festivities, and he is perhaps best known for his famous work General Bonaparte proclaiming the Cisalpine Republic. It was he who produced the trompe-l’oeil bas-reliefs on the ‘temporary’ Arc de triomphe of erected… -
Close-upA close-up on: the Great Sanhedrin: Jews during the EmpireNapoleon took but little interest in the Jews when he came to power. It was only in 1806 that, when faced with mounting hostility to the Jews in France, Napoleon turned to the problem of Jewish integration in the Empire.