Publications : 36
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PublicationSaint Helena, an island under siege (15 to 17 October 1815)
In this the second volume in a series of twelve, the director of the French Domains of St Helena, Michel Dancoisne Martineau, asks two questions. Why was this small island chosen as the place of detention for Europe’s most wanted prisoner? And what exactly was the island like when Napoleon landed there on 15 October […]
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PublicationFrench emigration to Great Britain in response to the French Revolution
Publisher’s presentation: Focuses on the interaction between French migrants and their British hosts following the French Revolution Utilises a range of both traditional and innovative sources to recreate French and British encounters Examines the situations, individuals and locations that were fundamental to emigrant-British cultural transfers This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who […]
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PublicationThe Countess, Napoleon and St Helena: in exile with the Emperor, 1815 to 1821
‘I congratulate you on your research efforts and dedicated work’ Ben Weider, founder of the International Napoleonic Society Presentation by the author:When Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the remote island of St Helena after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he took with him twenty-four people, including his doctor, servants and four […]
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PublicationThe French Prince: from Tragedy to Transformation
Publisher’s presentation: An Imperial Prince died in the South African veld. The Great Queen of England wept and his distraught mother, Empress Eugenie of France toiled in sad pilgrimage to where he fell. The proud Bonaparte dynasty died with him. This book is not a military history of the war between the British and the […]
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PublicationNapoleon’s Purgatory: The Unseen Humanity of the “Corsican Ogre” in Fatal Exile (with an introduction by J. David Markham) (Vernon Series in World History)
Napoleon’s Purgatory is a work portraying the human side of Napoleon as revealed by those who shared his exile on the island of St. Helena. Through the diaries and journals of the Emperor’s servants, generals, and companions come the stories of Napoleon’s tender love for children, his captivating sense of humor, his eternal love for […]
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PublicationL’Empire libéral
(in French) The two volumes of Éric Anceau’s “Empire libéral” (Volume 1: Genesis, Advent, realisations; Volume 2: Threats, the fall, posterity), consist of 1425 pages of an extremely dense and meticulous analysis of the last phase of the Second Empire, a period of political turmoil, reformation and modernisation – in other words, the liberalisation of […]