Interviews : 2
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InterviewThe Napoleonic bones found in Minsk: how the French Forensic Police (Marseilles) proved it was General GudinIn the early summer of 2019, a discovery sparked a flurry of excitement among First-Empire history enthusiasts. A team of Franco-Russian archaeologists had just exhumed the presumed mortal remains of General Gudin. Gudin, Commander of the 3rd Division of the 1st Corps of the Grande…
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InterviewDr Jean-François Lemaire: Medicine and the Emperors: “In my opinion, the birth of modern medicine occurs somewhere in the period between the beginning of the Revolution and the end of the Empire”Doctor and historian, Jean-François Lemaire lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (IVe section) on 19th-century medicine. He is author of many books and articles, his last book being Les blessés de la Grande Armée, which won a Fondation Napoléon History Prize in 1999. Interview by…