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ArticleWas Napoleonic France a “state based on law”?
Historians in recent times have more or less given up studying the constitutions of the Napoleonic era on the grounds that they were merely window-dressing for the pursuit of personal power. So when modern historians and writers about constitutional law describe the rules by which Napoleonic government worked, they differ from those of the 19th […]
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ArticleChristmas Selection 2017We have put together a list of Napoleonic prezzies for young and old. Whether you’re an art lover, a military buff, in search of the authentic voice of the Empire period, or wondering what might have happened if destiny had decided otherwise, there’s bound to…
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ArticleThe collapse of the Grand Empire: Introduction to volume 14 of Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte: Leipzig, juillet 1813-décembre 1813
The collapse of the Grand Empire[1] This, the fourteenth volume of our Correspondance Générale begins with hopes for peace but without interrupting war preparations. The ensuing campaign was difficult for Napoleon’s troops, ending with the massive defeat at Leipzig and the first intimations of the invasion of the “Sanctuary of the Nation”, to use Napoleon’s […]
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InterviewThe Memorial: Chantal Prevot on the History of the publication, October 2017On the occasion of the publication of the original manuscript of the Emmanuel de Las Cases Le Memorial de Sainte-Hélène, discovered and commented on by four researchers from the Fondation Napoléon – Thierry Lentz, Peter Hicks, François Houdecek, and Chantal Prévot – we asked each of them…
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ArticleThe trials and tribulations of a letter… Napoleon’s farewell to Comte de Las Cases, St Helena, 11 December 1816Amongst the Lowe Papers* held at the French Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris lies a document of major Napoleonic interest, namely, the Emperor’s farewell letter to Emmanuel de Las Cases, future author of the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Like many of the documents related to Napoleon’s final…
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InterviewWho exactly was the Conte de Las Cases? Three questions for François Houdecek, October 2017On the occasion of the publication of the original manuscript of the Emmanuel de Las Cases Le Memorial de Sainte-Hélène, discovered and commented on by four researchers from the Fondation Napoléon – Thierry Lentz, Peter Hicks, François Houdecek, and Chantal Prévot – we asked each…
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InterviewThe ‘discovery’ of the manuscript of the “Mémorial de Sainte Hélène”: Three questions for… Peter Hicks, October 2017On the occasion of the publication of the original manuscript of the Emmanuel de Las Cases Le Memorial de Sainte-Hélène, discovered and commented on by four researchers from the Fondation Napoléon – Thierry Lentz, Peter Hicks, François Houdecek, and Chantal Prévot – we asked each…
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from 01/06/2017 to 25/11/2017ExhibitionEmmanuel de Las Cases, Napoleon’s Memorialist (‘Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le Mémorialiste de Napoléon’)
An exhibition at the Centre National et Musée Jean Jaurès is presenting a collection of correspondences between Napoleon and Las Cases, who was made Baron of the Empire on 28 January 1809. It documents the journey of Las Cases from ex-royalist to Imperialist and companion of Napoleon. Emmanuel de Las Cases was the author of […]
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ObjectThe Future of Statues
Magritte made four versions of this work, “L’Avenir des statues” (‘The Future of Statues’), in the period 1933 to 1937. He took a commercial plaster version of Napoleon’s death mask and painted onto it a deep-blue sky spotted with sunlit clouds. According to David Sylvester, it is only the polish on the plaster and the […]
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ArticleEmmanuel Augustin Dieudonné: the real victor of St. Helena“More especially do people esteem the memoirs of any who came, however momentarily, into contact with Napoleon.” Lord Rosebery