Press reviews

Following the opening of the Louvre des Antiquaires' new exhibition on the urbanisation of Paris during the Second Empire, AFP has published a short review, detailing a few of the photographs currently on display. Click here for the article (external link in French).

The Corse-Matin website (France) reports on Napoleon and Corsica, currently on display at the Museu di a Corsica, and how ticket sales to the museum have doubled since the opening of the exhibition.  Click here for the full article (external link in French).

The website Arras-Online (France) has published a report of the Napoleon Bonaparte and Egypt: Fire and Light exhibition which is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras (Arras, France). As well as a brief rundown of the exhibition, there are also a number of photos of some of the exhibits on display. Click here […]

The Trinity College Dublin website has a mini-site which accompanies the Napoleon: Emperor of the French exhibition which is currently taking place in the Long Room of the Old Library. Click here to access the mini-site (external link).

Indigènes Productions has produced a fifty minute docu-fiction television programme which charts the battle of Trafalgar, using green-screen technology and computerised graphics. There are clips of the programme online as well as details concerning the technology used and further installments.   Click here for further details (external link).

The Maison Bertrand on St. Helena, the island where Napoleon spent his last days, has just reopened. The runnings and daily operations of the property have been taken over by the St. Helena National Trust. Click here for further details, including Michel Dancoisne-Martineau's speech given at the reopening (external link in French, with the speech in English).

Stantari, the Corsican history review, has published a special issue focussed entirely on Napoleon and Corsica.   Click here for further details and purchasing information for France, Monaco and Andorra (external link in French).

Yves Jégo, the former Secretary of State for Overseas departments and territories, is to begin writing a new historical novel based on Napoleon's passage through Venice in 1807.   Click here for the brief article (external link in French).

La Semaine, a French regional weekly newspaper, has published a short article on Maréchal Ney and his statue in Metz.   Click here for the article (external link in French).

David Andress, of the University of Portsmouth, offers a review of two complementary volumes on Napoleonic history, The Bee and the Eagle; Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 (ed. Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson), and Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians; Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 […]