Press reviews

With winter fashion being showcased at New York fashion week, American fashion house Tibi followed in the footsteps of John Galliano by listing one of their inspirations for the new collection as Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais. The collection included belted military coats, epaulets and chiffon dresses and corsets.   Click here for the […]

The Art Newspaper online reports on the reopening of the Napoleonic wings at the Musée de l'Armée and includes details of the some of the objects that will be on display and further information regarding the restoration project.   Click here for the full article (external link).

The Légion d'honneur archives, stored in the Archives Nationales, have been digitised and made available for public access online. The online database, known as “Leonore”, allows users to search for individuals using a family name or surname. The archives contain the names of those who were inducted into the Légion d'honneur (created in 1802) and who died […]

The Wall Street Journal website (US) features a book review of and excerpt from For the Soul of France, by Frederick Brown, which details fin de siècle France and the Dreyfus Affair.   Click here for the review and here for the excerpt (external links).

Joystiq.com (US) features the latest trailer for Napoleon: Total War, which includes details regarding the multiplayer options that will be available in the game.   Click here for the trailer (external link).

The Daily Mail website (UK) features an article about the use of arsenic in 19th century society, including in wallpaper, medicine, soap and even a 19th century form of viagra.   Click here for the full article (external link).

Worthplaying.com (USA) have yet more screenshots and images from the forthcoming Sega/The Creative Assembly game, Napoleon: Total War.   Click here for the images (external link).

History Today (UK) features an article by Frank Prochaska on the American constitution and a 19th century English political theorist's critique thereof. The article is interesting for its analysis of an “inflexible” and “restrictive” constitution and the effect that it had on political leaders in America, as well as ideas on “benevolent despotism”.   History […]

The BBC website (UK) features an article about daily life on St Helena and the latest delays to the airport construction project.   Click here for the article (external link).

The Figaro website (France) reports on an upcoming auction of about fifty letters written by Josephine, as well as nearly four-hundred documents relating to her and her time at Malmaison. The sale of one of the largest collections known on the subject will take place on 27 March, 2010, at Fontainebleau, France.   Click here for […]