Publications : 53
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PublicationLes Paysans de Napoléon: aspects de la vie quotidienne et des mentalités (in French)
Eighty percent of the Napoleonic Empire was rural, and yet the history of this huge slice of the population is little known, overshadowed as it is by the great deeds and more famous battles of the period. Generally clumped together into a large non-descript mass of peasants and countryside, the rural history of the Empire […]
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PublicationNapoléon et les Invalides (in French)
From the editor:Of the many illustrious names who have helped to make France what it is, two in particular have left their mark on the Hôtel national des Invalides: Louis XIV, who issued Libéral Bruant and Jules-Hardouin Mansart with the task of constructing the building that would provide shelter for his soldiers, and Napoleon I, […]
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PublicationThe Guerilla 1808-1814: Napoleon’s Spanish Nightmare
From the publishers:Illustrated history of the first “guerillas”, formed during the Peninsular War by the Spanish The Peninsular War was a conflict between Napoleon's France and the allied powers of Spain, Portugal and Great Britain for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. French armies invaded Spain in 1808 and the battle for […]