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Press reviewNapoleon’s black silk stockings on display at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
For those of you particularly interested in the French Emperor's sartorial habits, the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto's new exhibition, “Chronicles of Riches: Treasures from the Bata Shoe Museum” includes on display Napoleon's black silk stockings, worn whilst exiled on St. Helena. Click here for more information (external link).
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Press reviewThe History Channel (USA): "The Weather At War: General Winter Takes Command"
Napoleon Bonaparte led one of history's most calamitous campaigns when he invaded Russia in 1812 with some 500,000 men–less than 50,000 returned to France. Defeated by the merciless Russian winter, we highlight the Grand Army's retreat from Moscow as recorded by a survivor of the hellish journey home. In 1941, Adolf Hitler proved no student […]
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Press reviewThe History Channel (UK): "Trafalgar’s Forgotten Hero"
Intimate portrait of the man who really won the Battle of Trafalgar – Admiral Lord Collingwood. Historian Max Adams sets out to retrace the life of Nelson's best friend from his early days as an officer in the Bunker Hill conflict in Boston through to his tragic last years as Commander in Chief of the […]
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Press reviewAl Pacino to star as Napoleon Bonaparte?
News has been released that Al Pacino may be starring in a big-screen adaption of Staton Rabin's “Betsy and the Emperor”, the semi-fictionalised account of Betsy Balcombe's experiences on the island of St. Helena. Click here for further information (external link).
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Press reviewBBC Radio 4 Great Lives: Napoleon Bonaparte
BBC Radio 4's biography series this week discusses the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. The programme includes an interview with the Fondation Napoléon's International Relations Manager, Peter Hicks, and is available online from the BBC website. For British readers, the programme will also be re-broadcast tonight (Friday 10 April) on Radio 4 at 11pm. Click […]
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Press reviewBook review: Russia’s Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861
The Institute of Historical Research's latest book review is of Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter's Russia's Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861, by Alexander Martin of the University of Notre Dame. Click here for the review (external link).
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Press reviewThe Daily Telegraph reports on the arrival in Paris of the musical Les Misérables
On 23 March, 2009, the UK national newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on the decision to bring Les Misérables, the famous musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, to the Théâtre de Châtelet in Paris, the first time that it will have been performed in English on French soil. Click here for the full article (external […]
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Press review"Did Tin Pest Cause Napoleon’s Wardrobe Failure?"
The website Design News reports on the hypothesis that “Tin Pest” may have played a part in Napoleon's retreat from Russia in 1812. Click here for the brief article (external link).
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Press reviewThe Nelson Dispatch, vol. 10, part 1, January 2009
Articles'Lord Nelson, timber merchants and the 'great attraction of history', by Michael Baker, p. 22'Nelson's legacy: HMCS Sackville K181. The last of the corvettes', by Dr. Nick Slope, p. 27'The taxes that defeated the French: Pitt the Younger, Nelson's contemporary', by John Jeffrey-Cook, p. 31'Edward Gayner: the Royal Navy's man at Rosas (Part 2)', by […]
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Press reviewFrench History, vol. 23, n° 1, March 2009
Articles: “Military justice under the Directory: the Armies of Italy and of the Sambre and Meuse”, by Ian Germani, p. 47 Book reviews: Représentation et pouvoir: La politique symbolique en France (1789-1830) by Natalie Scholz and Christina Schröer, reviewed by Junko Therese Takeda, p. 126 Le Dix-huit brumaire: L'épilogue de la Révolution française. […]