Publications : 47
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PublicationNapoleon’s Medals: victory to the arts
From the publishers:During his time in power Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned hundreds of medals to be struck to mark the course of his reign; from conquests, successful treaties and marriage, to the introduction of the smallpox vaccination and an unsuccessful attempt on his own life. Napoleon's Medals sheds light on this neglected artistic achievement; how Napoleon's […]
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PublicationCorrespondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 6, 1806 – Vers le Grand Empire (in French)
The sixth volume of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the entirety of 1806, bringing together some 2,679 letters (the Second Empire publication contained just 1,896), commentaries from period specialist historians, and a preface from Jean-Claude Casanova. 1806 is a particularly rich year in terms of events. The Confederation of the Rhine was created, whilst, […]
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PublicationThe Emperor’s Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America
From the publishers“Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish colonies, from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The Bonapartists roiled the Western World as […]
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PublicationLa Mort de Napoléon: Mythes, Légendes et Mystères (in French)
From the publishers:For several years, mystery has lingered over the circumstances surrounding the death and burial of Napoleon. For some, the Emperor was poisoned with arsenic by one of his entourage. For others, it is not his body that lies buried in Les Invalides, but that of his maître d'hôtel, deceased a couple of years […]
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PublicationPauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
From the publishers:At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. She shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, and, most famously, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, which has been replicated in […]
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PublicationPolicing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech
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 […]
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Publication1809, les Français à Vienne. Chronique d’une occupation (in French)
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 […]