Publications : 1274
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PublicationFrench Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814
Between 1792 and 1814 London was home to a flourishing French émigré newspaper and periodical press that served both an exile audience and a Europe-wide French-speaking elite. The experienced journalists who had fled the revolution and staffed the press are revealed as professional activists engaged in an international ideological struggle; their successful counter-revolutionary propaganda affected […]
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PublicationThe French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power
About Napoleon III and the contemporary political regime, this book examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte managed to secure election as President of the Republic and then to launch a successful coup d'état to found a Second Empire. Thereafter follows a discussion of the ways in which power was wielded in the new imperial regime, and Napoleon […]
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PublicationAutour de "l’empoisonnement" de Napoléon (On the question of Napoleon’s "poisoning"’)
This book (in French) is a collection of four previously unpublished and important texts on this complex subject. Doctor Jean-François Lemaire, of the Institut Napoléon, tells ” the history of the affair “, doctors Paul Fornès and Pascal Kintz (those who participated in the press conference, organised by Ben Weider, in June 2001) publish the […]
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PublicationNapoleon and his collaborators: the making of a dictatorship
A detailed account of Napoleon's rise to power and the role played by supporters such as Cambaceres, Fouché and others, by Isser Woloch, Professor of history at New York's Columbia University. Other works on the period by the same author are The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, (1995) and Eighteenth-Century Europe, […]
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PublicationComplete translation of Marchand’s memoirs
A complete translation of the memoirs of Napoleon’s valet from 1811-1821, Louis-Joseph Marchand, have been published by Proctor Jones. The edition includes the original notes by Jean Bourguignon and Henry Lachouque and a Preface by Jean Tulard.
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PublicationIn the service of the Tsar against Napoleon
In the service of the Tsar against NapoleonDenis Davidov was an officer of hussars, a Russian hero and the inspiration for the character Denisov in Tolstoy War and Peace. Davidov’s memoirs, edited and translated (with biblography) by Gregory Troubetzkoy, recount his adventures in the Napoleonic Wars and convey the Russian perspective.Davidov recounts the confrontation between […]
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PublicationSecret Service: British agents in France, 1792-1815 Elizabeth Sparrow, Boydell and Brewer, 1999
This book tells the story of the British fear of a French-style revolution and the origins of the British secret services MI5 and 6. This proto secret service, the author maintains, was part of British opposition of Napoleon and as such was able to manipulate some of the Emperor’s staff. The book is based on […]
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PublicationIn the Legions of Napoleon -The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813
Heinrich von Brandt was eighteen when he enlisted in the French Army, and in 1808 he was sent to Spain as an officer in Napoleon's Grande Armee. Amongst many other battles, Heinrich fought at the siege of Saragossa and took part in Russian campaign – from which only 60 of Brandt's regiment were to return. […]
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Publication1799 – Le Baionette sagge – La campagna del maresciallo Suvorov in Italia e la "Prima Restaurazione" in Lombardia
This volume, entitled '1799 – Wise bayonets – Marshal Suvorov's Italian campaign and the “First Restoration” in Lombardy', by Marco Galandra and Marco Baratto (which derives its title from Suvorov's famous remark 'the bullet is wild, the bayonet is wise') deals with Suvorov's successful campaign against the French troops in northern Italy between April and […]
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PublicationNapoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler
This new biography published by Harper Collins is the first on Napoleon III for twenty years, the last being by David Duff (Collins 1978) and Jasper Ridley (1979). Billed as a ‘popular historical biography in the mould of Christopher Hibbert and Antonia Fraser’, the author claims to bring to light new research and gives a […]