Publications

 From the publishers:In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 , French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and much like the early American Republic, France appeared to be on a path towards freedom, tolerance, and pluralism. Four years later, however, the country […]

 From the publishers:On 14 May 1809, a couple of years after first capturing the Habsburg capital, Napoleon returned to Vienna. This book by Robert Ouvrard chronicles these long months of French occupation in Austria, and includes French and Austrian eye-witness accounts, taken from correspondence and memoirs from the period. The privations and difficulties experienced in […]

 From the publishers:The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars have been described as the first 'total war', which affected millions of people's lives and brought a whole continent into contact with armies and bloodshed. But the extent to which the constant state of war that existed between 1792 and 1815 shaped everyday experience has been much less […]

 From the publishers:Originally from Perche and cousin of the Empress Josephine, Maurice de Tascher started at l'Ecole de Fontainebleau in 1804. At the age of 20, he received a baptism of fire at Jena, where he was injured. He subsequently fought at Heilsberg, Baylen, Wagram, Borodino, Berezina. De Tascher died from exhaustion in 1813. Throughout […]

 Napoleon III in his epoch – part II: the downfallFrom the publishers:“Napoleon III., according to the historian Heinrich von Sybel, lived in silence and died in silence, and still today he is seen as mysterious figure. Posterity looks at him through the distorting mirror of the defeat at Sedan, and in his homeland, the last […]

 From the publishers:The maritime war against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Saumarez. He had had a highly successful career as a […]

Napoleon's vain act of placing his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne in 1808 cost him an ally as the Spanish populace rose against their French-installed monarch. That in turn led to two invasions of the Iberian Peninsula that would ultimately cost the French army a total of 500,000 casualties—and that brought an Anglo-Portuguese […]

  From the publishers:Italians military contribution began immediately after the first French occupation of Lombardy (1796) and the creation of the Cisalpine Republic whit the constitution of the Lombard Legion. This Legion went on growing bigger until reaching in 1797 a total force of 15.000 men. With the constitution of 1802 the Cisalpine Republic got […]

  From the publishers: Francesco Frasca offers a work discussing the relationship between the French and the Italians, particularly with regards to Italian recrutement and participation in the French army. The political, institutional, sociological and psychological aspects of the history are all considered: the Italians made a remarkable contribution, militarily speaking, to the wars that […]

This life of François-Joseph Talma is part history, part theatre, and part novel and as such rather like the hectic, contradictory, fascinating century in which the actor lived. Indeed the troubled, ever-changing times are brought to life again in the pages of this great actor's story, from the last breaths of the Ancien Regime to […]