The fruit of a partnership between French National Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Fondation Napoléon, which marries the digital experience of the BNF with the historical expertise of the Fondation Napoléon, these thematic online bibliographies are composed using works available on the website Gallica.Most recent updates:
A Second Empire culinary invention: margarine
Joachim Murat
The Duruy Law for Primary Education, 1867
Germaine de Staël, 1766-1817
Second Empire: “grisette”, “demi-mondaines”, “cocottes” …
First Empire
- French Campaign in Egypt and Syria, 1798-1801
- 1793-1821, Napoleon in 100 engravings: from Toulon to St Helena
- 1800-1815, Prisoners of war
- 1814-1815, Political Pamphlets
- 1814-1815, Napoleon on Elba
- 1815, Waterloo
- 1814-1815, Congress of Vienna
- 1815, Saint Helena
- Imperial Family, Empress Josephine
- Imperial Family, Empress Marie-Louise
- Imperial Family, the King of Rome, Duke of Reichstadt
- Maps of Paris, 1770-1820
- Paris, The Louvre, 1789-1815
- Restoration
- Bicentenary. René Laënnec, Bicentenary of the Invention of the Stethoscope
- The wreck of La Meduse, 4 July, 1816
- Second Empire
- The 1848 Presidential Election
- The Mexican Campaign, 1861-1967
- Imperial Family, Eugénie, Empress of the French
- Paris, Photographs, 1840-1870
- 1866: Première of the opera “La vie parisienne” by Jacques Offenbach