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THIS MONTH'S PAINTING
The Comtesse Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély by Gérard
As an accompaniment to the recent French biography of her husband, the beautiful Comtesse Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély is this month's subject, painted by Gérard in 1798 and shown at the Salon in 1799.
THE CATALOGUE OF THE BIBLIOTHEQUE LAPEYRE-FONDATION NAPOLEON ON LINE
The catalogue of the Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre - Fondation Napoléon is now consultable online via the site. The pages are in French, but they're not difficult to use! The ideal tool for bibliographical research and an excellent way to check if we have the book before your come to the Fondation: in just one click, more than 6,000 titles on the First and Second Empires
GRAPEVINE
The recent French blockbuster 'Napoleon' (France 2, inter alia) is to be broadcast in the UK at the beginning of 2003. The Japanese TV company NHK is working on a documentary on Napoleon. Paolucci's 'The Emperor's New Clothes' should be coming out on general release soon.
THE ARCHIVES NAPOLEON AVAILABLE ON LINE IN 2004
The Fondation Napoléon is to give a sponsorship package to the Centre Historique des Archives Nationales with a view to putting online the Archives Napoléon (shelf mark 400 AP). In other words the papers of the Bonaparte family, from Charles to Prince Louis, in short, nearly 250,000 documents. The aim is to complete the project in 2004 (a very suitable year). The service will be free.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Still engaged in their struggle with the Parisian newspapers, the united theatres decided on 20 Brumaire, An XI (11 November, 1802), to launch their own newspaper entitled the Journal d'opposition, which alone would have the right to announce theatre programmes; they also planned to publish in it praise of playwrights and actors in order to counter the criticism published by the other papers.
22 Brumaire, An XI (13 November, 1802), simultaneous arrival of the First Consul, returning from his trip to Normandy, and Lord Whitworth, British ambassador.
24 Brumaire, An XI (15 November, 1802), the professors at the Collège de France began their general courses; the general public could thus hear lectures by Jean-Nicolas Corvisart on the medicine of chronic diseases, by Georges Cuvier on natural history, and also by Jacques Delille on Latin poetry, by Jérôme Lalande on Astronomy, by Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin on Arabic, etc.
Journal des débats, 25 Brumaire, An XI
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Snippets
- Bodies of British sailors unearthed near Aboukir
Press review
- French History
Period glossary
- Wellington's 'damn nice thing'!
Just published
Francesco Melzi d'Eril: La grande occasione perduta by Nino del Bianco
What's on
- Exhibition: Napoleon and Alexander I in Hildesheim (Germany)
- Television: Prince Regent, BBC 4
- Commemoration: Austerlitz 2002
- Exhibition: The First Italian Republic, 1802-1805
- Exhibition: Seat of Empire
The monthly titles
- Book of the Month: The Peninsular War, by Charles Esdaile
- This month's picture, The Comtesse Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély by Gérard
- Article of the Month, The First Italian Campaign: Act One, by Jacques Jourquin
- In the Collectors Corner, The Traveller, by Meissonier
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