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This short and very readable book claims to have discovered the real reasons for Napoleon III’s invasion of the Sonora region of Mexico. Not imperial nostalgia and attempts to rival his uncle but rather a severe need for silver caused by the bi-metallic crisis in France 1853 – 1865 (itself resulting from the sudden influx […]

Winner of Italy's prestigious Strega literary prize, N. recounts Napoleon's three hundred days spent on Elba before his escape and return to power during the 'Hundred Days'. The novel turns around Napoleon's relations with a local intellectual, Martino Acquabona, whom the emperor appoints as his librarian. As a result, Martino gets to know Napoleon and […]

Following Dava Sobel’s success with Longitude, Denis Guedj here recounts the story of the creation of the metre. Pierre Méchain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre set out from the Tuileries on 24 June 1792 heading for Barcelona and Dunkerque respectively. The idea was for these two men to leave their destinations and to meet halfway in Rodez. […]

Stemming from a conference of the same name held at the Institute of Historical Research in London on 18/19 April, 1997, this interesting collection of essays details the complex and contradictory legacy of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. It is divided into three main sections, ‘The Apparatus of State’, ‘The Legacy of Annexation’ […]

Austin's monumental trilogy on the Russian campaign

A detailed analysis of the Battle of Marengo. This book can be bought online here http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1855329654/qid%3D962207785/sr%3D1-1/026-5502172-6009235

Recently published by Rizzoli in honour of the 200th aniversary of the Battle of Marengo, Marengo: la battaglia che creò il mito di Napoleone by Marco Gioannini and Giulio Massobrio is an excellent book, combining a racy novelistic style with careful historical accuracy, including the most complete and up-to-date bibliography on the battle and on […]

Lawyer in the last years of the Ancien Régime, Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau (1765-1854) took part in the creation of the Club des Jacobins and was elected to the Convention where he was particularly active (Président of the Assemblée in 1795, member of the commission charged with drawing up the Constitution de l’An III). The Coup d’Etat […]

Reactions to the Revolution of 1848, and later the Coup d’Etat of 1851, in a strongly republican region.De la Révolution au coup d’Etat, 1848-1851: les répercussions des événements parisiens entre Alpes et Pyrénées: colloque de Montpellier, 18-19 septembre 1999

Analysis over an enormous greographical and chronological spread of the sale of national property and the fiscal reorganisation of the regions in France, Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, for the most part during the Revolution and the EmpireLa vente des biens nationaux: l’événement le plus important de la Révolution, 1790-1867