Publications : 64
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PublicationLa rosa imperiale: Charlotte Bonaparte e Sarzana
This short book recounts the life of Joseph Bonaparte's daughter, Charlotte. Although many men were to fall in love with her, notably the Swiss painter Léopold Robert (who killed himself out of unrequited love for her), and the famous Italian man of letters, Giacomo Leopardi, she in the end was to marry the future Napoleon […]
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PublicationThe Line upon a wind. An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail: 1793—1815
From the publishersFollowing his [book] Frontiers, Noel Mostert's new [work] chronicles the first true “world war.” In February 1793, France declared war on Britain and Holland. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars that raged for the next twenty-two years saw European powers manoeuvering for mercantile and political advantage in a complex and ever-changing web of alliances […]
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PublicationEducating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867
From the publishers:An increasing number of middle class families were taking the education of their daughters seriously in the first part of the nineteenth century, and boarding-schools were multiplying on both sides of the Channel. Schoolmistresses – rarely, in fact, the 'reduced gentlewomen' of nineteenth century fiction – were not only often successful entrepreneurs, but […]
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Publication(ed.) History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005
From the publishersThis volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the extraordinary celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. Leading historians of Britain and […]
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PublicationNapoleonic uniforms, vols 1 and 2
From the publishersThis is the presentation re-edition of colonel John Elting's remarkable compendium of Napoleonic uniforms. It is the only reference work of its kind to depict accurately the entire Grande Armée in detail. It […] portrays the various types of soldiers within the various regiments of the Grande Armée – officers, sergeants, color-bearers, bandsmen, […]
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PublicationEngland’s mistress: The infamous life of Emma Hamilton
From the publishersA […] tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise […] of […] Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in her way of her desire to live out […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s brothers
A treatment of the lives of Napoleon's brothers, Joseph, Lucian, Louis and Jerome, first published in 1909.
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PublicationNouvelle histoire du Premier Empire, volume III: La France et l’Europe de Napoléon 1804-1814) (in French)
New visit to Napoleonic FranceWhen it comes to Napoleon, we have a remarkable and extraordinary privilege: and this is that it's always possible, despite the huge number of books written about him, to take say something new about the man, the sovereign, his work and his reign. Thierry Lentz has given striking proof of this. […]
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PublicationCorrespondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 4, Ruptures et fondations, 1803-1804 (in French)
This fourth volume of the Correspondance générale, published by the Fondation Napoléon with Edition Fayard, contains 2,077 letters and a preface by Thierry Lentz. It was edited by François Houdecek in collaboration with Gabriel Madec, and it covers the years 1803 – 1804. The title of the volume ‘Ruptures et fondations' (Breaking with the past […]
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Publication(ed. Emilie Barthet and Peter Hicks) Clisson et Eugénie
Text and commentary produced by Emilie Barthet and Peter Hicks with an essay by Gérard Gengembre. Editions When gunner Bonaparte was bored in garrison he began writing a novel recounting a tragic tale of love and loss, modelled on the author's affair with Désirée Clary. But this text was not mere autobiography. It was also […]