Publications : 21
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PublicationNapoléon. Chefs d’oeuvres des collections de la ville d’Ajaccio
The Ajaccio Museum of Fine Arts have this year produced a beautifully edited book that will allow you to virtually visit its magnificent First Empire collection. Presentation by the publisher Born in Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte and, in his wake, his family members would dominate Europe, bringing their success to their hometown […]
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PublicationOur Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
Publisher’s presentation: The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated […]
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PublicationNorthern Tars in Southern Waters: The Russian Fleet in the Mediterranean, 1806-1810
Publisher’s presentation Translated for the first time into English in their entirety, the memoirs of Vladimir Bronevskiy describe the actions and movements of Russian Admiral Dmitriy Senyavin’s squadron and the infantry at his disposal in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas between the years of 1805 and 1810. The story moves from Kronstadt to Corfu, to […]
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PublicationCorsica impériale. Napoléon III et la Corse (1851-1870)
This is the wonderfully-illustrated catalogue (which received financial support from the Napoléon Fondation) of the exhibition of the same name at the Musée de Bastia (July to December 2019). 400 illustrated pages with texts in French. Préface(in French) Sommaire (in French)
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PublicationIn the shadow of Eugenie: The last Empress in exile
Bilingual edition: French/English French title: “Dans l’ombre d’Eugénie. La dernière impératrice en exil” Etienne Chilot follows in the footsteps of the “Farnboro’ boy” as Eugenie called him, Lucien Daudet, a frequent guest of the former Empress of France, who published his recollections of her after her death. Scouring the archives of those close to the Empress, […]
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PublicationGénéral Gourgaud – Journal intégral 1815-1818 . [Gourgaud’s unabridged St-Helena Journal]
(Publication in French) The famous memoirs of Gaspard Gourgaud (1783-1852) remained hidden for many years in the family’s private papers. They were to be published in French in a much bowdlerised form at the turn of the 19th century and shortly after WWII, as well as appearing in English in 1903 and 1932. Here in […]
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PublicationSir Hudson Lowe: Victim of St Helena (Series “Napoleon and St Helena”, Volume 11)
The obsessive and controlling Sir Hudson Lowe, sent by the British to watch over the “enemy of Europe”, exiled on the remotest island in the world, has often been remembered as simply a 2-dimensional “villain” of the St Helena saga. In the latest of his 12-volume series, Napoleon and St Helena, the end of an Emperor, the director […]
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PublicationMargaret de Flahaut (1788–1867): A Scotswoman at the French Court
Publisher’s presentation: Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788–1867), with her powerful mind and independent spirit, was never daunted by adversity as she sought to realize her ambitions for her family against the background of intellectual upheaval and social and political change which followed the French Revolution and the end of the ancien régime. The turning-point in her […]
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PublicationSecuring Europe after Napoleon 1815 and the New European Security Culture
Publisher’s presentation: After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation, ambassadorial […]
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PublicationJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres e la vita artistica al tempo di Napoleone. [Exhibition Catalogue]
In Italian. Editor’s presention: Il catalogo della mostra” Ingres e la vita artistica al tempo di Napoleone” intende restituire alla pittura e alla scultura degli anni tra il 1780 e il 1820 la loro carica di novità e, per così dire, la loro “giovinezza conquistatrice”: al suo interno, dopo un’introduzione dei curatori del catalogo, un’intervista […]