Publications : 36
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PublicationNapoleon’s Paper Kingdom: The life and death of Westphalia, 1807-1813
Publisher’s note: Placing the creation of Westphalia within the context of the larger German story of the Napoleonic Wars, this groundbreaking book offers the only complete history of Napoleon’s grand experiment to construct a model state in Germany. In 1807, in the wake of two years of victories over the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians, Napoleon […]
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PublicationNapoleon Victorious!: An alternative history of the Battle of Waterloo
Publisher’s note: It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington’s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. What happens next is well known to any student of history: the two armies of the Seventh Coalition defeated Bonaparte in a […]
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PublicationRecollections from the Ranks: Three Russian Soldiers’ Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars (From Reason to Revolution)
Publisher’s note: From Napoleon’s invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier’s perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understood army and nation during one of the pivotal episodes in European history. Pamfil Nazarov was a peasant […]
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PublicationThe Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera
Publisher’s note: A recent French biography begins, Who doesn’t know Nadar? In France, that’s a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris—a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas—Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern. The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering […]
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PublicationWaterloo Messenger: The Life of Henry Percy, Peninsular soldier and French prisoner of war
From the publishers: Henry Percy is best known as the officer who carried the Waterloo Dispatch, the Duke of Wellington’s account of the Battle of Waterloo and of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon, to London in June 1815. This was the climax of a remarkable military career. He served in the British army throughout the […]
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PublicationNelson’s Lost Jewel: The Extraordinary Story of the Lost Diamond Chelengk
Publisher’s presentation: “Admiral Lord Nelson’s diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by the Sultan Selim III of Turkey after the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the jewel had thirteen diamond rays to represent the French ships captured or destroyed at the action. A […]
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PublicationPorcelaine royale. Napoleons Bedeutung für Sèvres und Fürstenberg
This is the catalogue (in German) for the 2017 exhibition at the Museum Herzog Anton Ulrich, (Braunschweig Germany), with contributions by Guillaume Nicoud, Virginie Desrantes, Olivier Baustian and Heinrich Jobst von Wintzingerode.
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PublicationCorrespondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte. Tome XIV : Leipzig, juillet 1813-décembre 1813
Introduction to the volume (English translation) Contents – Preface by Pierre Laugeay, Chef du Service historique de la Défense — Editorial Committee for the Correspondance of Napoleon – Introduction by François Houdecek – The Correspondence of Napoléon Bonaparte : 2 600 annotated letters – Letters in private collections (text not available) – Annexes: — Nominations of extraordinary commissioners (décret du […]
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PublicationNapoléon et le droit
This publication by the CNRS is the proceedings of the conference “Napoleon and the law. Law and justice during the Consulate and the Empire”, which took place in the context of the Chaire Napoléon (created in partnership with ICES and the Fondation Napoléon), at La Roche-sur-Yon (in the Vendée region of France), from 14-16 March […]
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PublicationLe mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Le manuscrit original retrouvé
Read an extract from the Introduction (in English) An interview with Peter Hicks about the discovery of the manuscript An interview with Chantal Prevot on the history of the publication An interview with François Houdecek Who was the Conte de Las Cases? Publishers’ presentation: The original text which enabled Las Cases to publish the Mémorial de […]