Publications

This publication by the CNRS is the proceedings of the conference “Napoleon and the law. Law and justice during the Consulate and the Empire”, which took place in the context of the Chaire Napoléon (created in partnership with ICES and the Fondation Napoléon), at La Roche-sur-Yon (in the Vendée region of France), from 14-16 March […]

Read an extract from the Introduction (in English) An interview with Peter Hicks about the discovery of the manuscript An interview with Chantal Prevot on the history of the publication An interview with François Houdecek Who was the Conte de Las Cases? Publishers’ presentation: The original text which enabled Las Cases to publish the Mémorial de […]

In this the second volume in a series of twelve, the director of the French Domains of St Helena, Michel Dancoisne Martineau, asks two questions. Why was this small island chosen as the place of detention for Europe’s most wanted prisoner? And what exactly was the island like when Napoleon landed there on 15 October […]

Publisher’s presentation:   Focuses on the interaction between French migrants and their British hosts following the French Revolution Utilises a range of both traditional and innovative sources to recreate French and British encounters Examines the situations, individuals and locations that were fundamental to emigrant-British cultural transfers This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who […]

‘I congratulate you on your research efforts and dedicated work’ Ben Weider, founder of the International Napoleonic Society Presentation by the author: When Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the remote island of St. Helena after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he took with him twenty-four people, including his doctor, servants and […]

Publisher’s presentation: An Imperial Prince died in the South African veld. The Great Queen of England wept and his distraught mother, Empress Eugenie of France  toiled in sad pilgrimage to where he fell. The proud Bonaparte dynasty died with him. This book is not a military history of the war between the British and the […]

From the publishers: “In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve the internal problems which it had created, before turning […]

From the publisher: * WINNER of the Young Adult section of the New Zealand Book Children’s Awards * Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards * A Junior Library Guild Selection Fifteen year old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother […]

From the publisher: “Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to speak, which were written by major authors who inherited this Enlightenment bearing, responded to the emerging concepts of love found in novels and philosophical essays. Love among […]

From the publisher: If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the […]