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TimelineThe day of Napoleon’s coronation and consecration (Sacre), 11 Frimaire, An XIII (2 December 1804)Empire : Directory / 1st EmpireTheme(s) : Imperial FamilyPress reviewThe Gazette: the Member’s Journal of The Napoleonic Alliance, vol. 2003, no. 4
'The Wives of Russian Generals', by Linda Ivchenko, pp. 5-8'Caulaincourt's appointment to Russia', from Napoleon and his times, by Caulaincourt, 1838, ed. Victor Blair, pp. 9-11'Lenin and Napoleon', by John McErlean, p. 11 'The truth of history', from Napoleon at Saint Helena, by John S.C. Abbott, 1855, ed. Victor Blair, pp. 12-13'The Lonato Bluff', by […]
Publication(ed., trans.), Imperial Glory: The Bulletins of Napoleon’s Grande ArméeThis useful book makes available in English about 80% of the Bulletins of the Grande Armée (some for the first time), the Bulletins for the Peninsula War being omitted. But despite the title, this book does not just include Bulletins. There are proclamations, reports by other commanders than Napoleon (even enemy!), letters of Napoleon, decrees, […]
ObjectThe Austerlitz or ‘Maréchaux’ TableThis formal piece of furniture progaganda made in memory of the famous victory at Austerlitz, the Austerlitz Table, was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806. Vivant Denon promised the emperor a «colossus in porcelain». Made over the period 1808 to 1810, this masterpiece from the Sèvres Manufactory was created by a 'dream team' of artists of […]
Bibliography / Directory / 1st EmpireDrouotAMBERT (general). – Le général Drouot (1880). BERTRAND (general). – Cahiers de Sainte-Hélène (1951). BLOY (Léon). – L’âme de Napoléon, in Mercure de France (1966). CAULAINCOURT (Duc de Vicence). – Mémoires (1933). CHUQUET (Arthur). – Inédits napoléoniens (1914-1920). DHUMEZ (H.). – Napoléon au Golfe-Juan et à Cannes (1932). DROUOT (general). – Lettres in la Sabretache […]
Painting / Directory / 1st EmpireThe sacre or coronationThe sacre or coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I Paris, Musée du Louvre Commissioned by Napoleon I for the Salle des Gardes of the Tuileries Palace. Exhibited at the Salon of 1808. An ambitious composition representing the coronation, which took place on 2 December, 1804, in Notre-Dame cathedral, this canvas took three years of […]
BiographyMACDONALD, Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre'Il ne m'aime pas, mais c'est un homme d'honneur qui a des sentiments élevés et sur le quel je peux, je crois, compter', Napoleon to Caulaincourt, 1814.ArticleNapoleon in Russia: Saviour or anti-christ? – from History Today (1991), vol. 41Janet Hartley, Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics, discusses the mixed responses of Russia's populations to Napoleon's great gamble on an invasion and the part they played in the eventual French catastrophe.Place, museum or monumentPanthéonConceived following a wish of Louis XV, Saint- Geneviève church was built by Soufflot then by Rondelet from 1764 to 1789. In 1791, the Constituent Assembly transformed the new church into a temple destined “to receive the great men of the epoch of French liberty.” Mirabeau, Voltaire, Le Peletier of Saint-Fargeau, Bara, Rousseau and Marat […]
Place, museum or monumentBorodino (La Moskowa)It was 150 km from Moscow, at Borodino on 7 September 1812, that the most important battle of the Russian campaign took place. Napoleon's army (130,000 men, 28,000 cavalry and 587 cannon) faced the armies of Russia led by Kutusov (135,000 men, 25,000 cavalry and 624 cannon). The fighting lasted 15 hours and the uninterrupted […]