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TimelineNapoleon’s "divorce"Empire : Directory / 1st EmpireTheme(s) : Imperial FamilyBibliography / Directory / 1st EmpireNapoleon’s "divorce"
There is yet to be any detailed English language treatment of the complicated history of Napoleon’s annulled marriage. The key work remains Louis Grégoire’s Le « Divorce » de Napoléon et de l’Impératrice Joséphine, an exceptionally thorough study of the annulment process from a canonic law perspective. Monographs D’Haussonville, Comte, L’Eglise romaine et le Premier Empire, 1800-1814, […]
ArticleHow history is written: Maréchal Lannes "last" words to NapoleonHow history is written In 1818, a book called Voyage en Autriche, en Moravie et en Bavière fait à la suite de l'armée française pendant la campagne de 1809, par le chevalier C.L. Cadet de Gassicourt, pharmacien, docteur de la faculté des Sciences, membre de la Légion d'honneur… [what follows are two lines of academic titles]” appeared […]
BiographyMOUTON Georges, comte and généralThe 9th of Joseph Mouton’s 14 children Georges Mouton was born in Phalsbourg (in the Moselle département of France) on 21 June, 1770, and was the ninth of fourteen children born to Joseph Mouton and Catherine Charpentier. In 1790, his father obtained for him work as an accounts clerk at an iron merchants in Lunéville, […]
TimelineThe Meeting at ErfurtEmpire : Directory / 1st EmpireTheme(s) : Geopolitics and DiplomacyArticleThe Meeting at ErfurtBetween 27 September and 14 October 1808, in the small town of Erfurt, in Thüringen, central Germany, the famous Meeting at Erfurt took place. As well as the French and Russian emperors, the majority of German sovereigns were present. These latter, however, were not at Erfurt…BiographyJOMINI, Antoine Henri, Baron deThe man they called the “devin de Napoléon” (the man who guessed what Napoleon was about), because he wrote a definition of his way of making war, was born in Payerne (Switzerland), in the Vaud canton on 6 March, 1779, into a wealthy family (Payerne (Vaud) is 50 km S.-E. of Berne. Jomini was born at […]
PaintingNapoleon visiting the battlefield at Eylau, 9 February, 1807The tragic and bloody Battle of Eylau, with its appalling loss of human life – nearly 50,000 dead and wounded – was, just as Marengo had been before it, the subject of a major propaganda campaign. The aim was on the one hand to confirm the French victory but on the other to guide French […]
ArticleWhy did the battle of Jena take place?The seeds for this article grew out of a visit to the “Journées de Thuringes” held in Jena in Germany on 14 July, 2006. As part of the festivities, held under the aegis of Franc-German friendship, the local museum had an exhibition of military events related to the battle of Jena, 14 October, 2005, a […]
ArticleWas the Napoleonic regime a military dictatorship?Introduction It is generally agreed that the regime installed by Napoleon was authoritarian. But simply calling it a dictatorship seems excessive. The presence of opposing powers, the strength of the principles limiting the action of the executive and the circumstances themselves all restricted the leader’s room for action. There are three elements that define a […]