Publications

This is the wonderfully-illustrated catalogue (which received financial support from the Napoléon Fondation) of the exhibition of the same name at the Musée de Bastia (July to December 2019). 400 illustrated pages with texts in French. Préface(in French) Sommaire (in French)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held from June to September 2019 at the Ajaccio Museum of Fine Arts (Corsica), this catalogue describes the mutiple and varied actions in favour of the arts – painting, sculpture, fashion, literature – that this great patron, cousin of Napoleon III, carried out throughout […]

Bilingual edition: French/English French title: “Dans l’ombre d’Eugénie. La dernière impératrice en exil” Etienne Chilot follows in the footsteps of the “Farnboro’ boy” as Eugenie called him, Lucien Daudet, a frequent guest of the former Empress of France, who published his recollections of her after her death. Scouring the archives of those close to the Empress, […]

From the publishers: The first French invasion of Portugal in 1807 – which was commanded by Junot, one of Napoleon’s most experienced generals – was a key event in the long, brutal Peninsular War. It was also the first campaign fought in the Peninsular by Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, yet it tends […]

(Publication in French) The famous memoirs of Gaspard Gourgaud (1783-1852) remained hidden for many years in the family’s private papers. They were to be published in French in a much bowdlerised form at the turn of the 19th century and shortly after WWII, as well as appearing in English in 1903 and 1932. Here in […]

The obsessive and controlling Sir Hudson Lowe, sent by the British to watch over the “enemy of Europe”, exiled on the remotest island in the world, has often been remembered as simply a 2-dimensional “villain” of the St Helena saga. In the latest of his 12-volume series, Napoleon and St Helena, the end of an Emperor, the director […]

This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This series of case studies covers a broad range of source material, and it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, […]

Book in Spanish English translation of publishers’ description: Polish participation in the sieges of Saragossa was forgotten until relatively recently. And despite the upsurge in interest, a full study has never been devoted to the subject. The aim of this book is to show the full extent of involvement of the Polish men of the […]

Publisher’s presentation: Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788–1867), with her powerful mind and independent spirit, was never daunted by adversity as she sought to realize her ambitions for her family against the background of intellectual upheaval and social and political change which followed the French Revolution and the end of the ancien régime. The turning-point in her […]

Publisher’s presentation: After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation, ambassadorial […]