Publications

In 1870 France embarked on a war with Prussia and her allied  German states that was to be a complete disaster. For Napoleon III, after his ignominious surrender with thousands of his troops from the Army of the Rhine and the Army of of Chalons, it meant his abdication and exile. For France it resulted […]

Publisher’s presentation “The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France’s Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country’s competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war at sea against France’s most consistent enemy and commercial rival […]

We should perhaps not be surprised that, as a global pandemic currently underscores the reality of the global village, Alexander Mikaberidze should brilliantly have taken the history of the Napoleonic Wars and set it rightfully in its worldwide perspective. In this, Mikaberidze not also gives the reader a retrospective (but also contemporary) view of the […]

From the publisher: When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule France in peace. His appeal was rejected and the Emperor of the French knew he would have to fight to keep his throne. In just eight weeks, […]

Publisher’s description: On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defence of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day […]

This catalogue contains the elements of the exhibition that the Château de Malmaison organised from 17 November 2018 to 10 March 2019: “Secret furniture, furniture secrets”, to celebrate the occasion of the completion of the restoration by the École Boulle of an unknown secret “secretaire” by Martin Guillaume Biennais. The exhibition is structured around this […]

The Ajaccio Museum of Fine Arts have this year produced a beautifully edited book that will allow you to virtually visit its magnificent First Empire collection. Presentation by the publisher Born in Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte and, in his wake, his family members would dominate Europe, bringing their success to their hometown […]

Publisher’s presentation: The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated […]

New DVD restoration of Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic film based on Tolstoi’s War and Peace with new English subtitles translation At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tome in […]

Publisher’s presentation Translated for the first time into English in their entirety, the memoirs of Vladimir Bronevskiy describe the actions and movements of Russian Admiral Dmitriy Senyavin’s squadron and the infantry at his disposal in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas between the years of 1805 and 1810. The story moves from Kronstadt to Corfu, to […]