To return to the site, www.napoleon.org, please click here.   Bulletin - Bulletin                    EDITO > THOUGHTS ON MEMORY AND PEACE As we approach the 11th November and Armistice Day (especially in this centenary year of the First World War), our minds turn to the losses brought about by that world-destroying conflict. In our own historical period, the first abdication was welcomed on both sides of the Channel as a moment of much-sought-after peace. The allied sovereigns in London and Paris performed acts of the celebration of peace, and in the autumn of 1814, the Congress of Vienna began the bloodless battle of words with the laudable goal of compromise. Talleyrand's remarkable negotiating skills made it possible for French interests not to be forgotten, and the magnanimity of the Tsar was renowned.   Napoleonic re-enactments often include an act of memory. Indeed, our weekly news bulletin is just one more of these. As Napoleon himself said, ‘The only true victories are those over ignorance'. Enjoy your read on napoleon.org.   Peter Hicks Historian and International Relations Manager   PUBLICATION DATE > CORRESPONDANCE GENERALE DE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The 10th volume of the Correspondance Générale de Napoléon Bonaparte (our book of the month) will be available from 19 November, 2014. If you can't wait that long, read Annie Jourdan's fascinating introduction to the volume (in English).        PAINTING OF THE MONTH > THE HOTEL BONAPARTE ON THE RUE CHANTEREINE, BY GUSTAVE, COMTE DE REISET Turning off the Rue Chantereine in October 1795 and continuing down a long driveway formed by the walls of adjacent properties, Napoleon Bonaparte would have found himself at the modest private residence in which Marie-Joseph-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie lived. Their romantic entanglement began within these walls, and this watercolour is a poignant testament to this now-vanished locus of the First Empire. Find out more about drawing and building here.        NAPOLEON HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE > 14–16 NOVEMBER A final reminder for those who find themselves in the vicinity of New Orleans – next weekend sees the Napoleon Historical Society Conference take place at the Chateau LeMoyne, in the heart of the French Quarter. This is the major annual event in the Anglophone Napoleonic world, so be sure to take a look at the programme and swing by if you possibly can.        NEW PUBLICATION > LIVING IN BRITAIN THROUGH NAPOLEON'S WARS We are very excited for Jenny Uglow's latest release, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815. The prize-winning author looks at the Napoleonic wars through the prism of those left behind – the ordinary people who “lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead..." Read more about In These Times in a glowing review from The Spectator, which includes a video introduction from the author!          MEET THE AUTHORS > ATLAS DE PARIS AU TEMPS DE NAPOLEON On Saturday 22 November, the Fondation Napoléon's very own Chantal Prévot and Irène Delage will be at the Fontaine Villiers bookshop, answering questions and signing copies of their recently published Atlas de Paris au temps de Napoléon. The Atlas is an extraordinary publication, packed with colour illustrations and archival documents that paint a picture of Napoleonic Paris as you've never seen it before. Don't miss this chance to talk with the authors themselves - full details here!        NAPOLEONIC MUSIC > ONLINE AND IN CONCERT! Don't forget that napoleon.org has a whole section devoted to Napoleonic music. Read lyrics, listen to extracts, and download scores for pieces such as “La Bataille de Maringo” and “Le Chant du Départ” from the comfort of your own home! Or, if you're in Italy next week, why not catch a concert “A la Manière de Napoléon” given by the Coro Verrès in the church La Collegiata di Saint-Gilles on Saturday 15 November. More information to be found here.    NAPOLEONICA. LA REVUE > “EUGENIE RENIQUE, OFFICIAL MISTRESS AND OCCASIONAL COMPANION OF MARECHAL MASSENA”  We're still enjoying the new issue 20 of Napoleonica.La Revue – and we hope you are too! This week, why not dive into Chantal Prévot's fantastic article, a new investigation into Maréchal Masséna's mistress, which manages for the first time to establish Eugénie Renique's identity and to uncover a wealth of information about this mysterious figure. You can find an abstract in English here, and the article in French here (psst, don't forget GoogleTranslate if you want a hand with the French!)  200 YEARS AGO > A SUMPTUOUS MASKED BALL IN VIENNA AND THE PERILOUS ADVENTURES OF A SPY ON ELBA On 8 November, 1814, the Metternichs hosted a masked ball for some 1,500 guests. A remarkable gathering, Friedrich von Gentz reported in his journal that it was “in the opinion of all, the most splendid celebration that ever was seen.” Von Gentz also confessed to having returned from the ball at 4am, suggesting that 9 November was a difficult day at work for the secretary of the Congress of Vienna... Meanwhile, far from the sumptuous Viennese festivities that occupied the great men of Europe outside the fierce negotiations, a certain Domenico Ettori was not at the celebration. Sent to Elba to spy on Napoleon for Bellegarde, the Austrian governor of Italy, Ettori disembarked on the island on 1 November. He stayed on Elba for only a week under the assumed identity of a print dealer, and his mission was not a great success. His return, by contrast, was more eventful: having endured a storm on the return journey to Livorno, he lost all documentation proving his identity and everything which would have allowed him to end his mission smoothly. Passing from Austrian to Tuscan hands, inventing stories about meetings with Napoleon to obtain recognition from his gaolers, Ettori ended up attracting the attention of Field-Marshall Bellegarde, who recognised his agent… and his patent mania for fibs. The unsuccessful spy ended up under house arrest in Vienna.        150 YEARS AGO > WINTER IS ON ITS WAY… We've had the first inklings of winter in Paris this week – bright skies, crisp air – but happily it's been a less dramatic start to the season than the city experienced 150 years ago. Then, as now, newspapers and magazines were filled with advertisements heralding the changing seasons. In the Moniteur of 7 November, 1864 a shop on the rue du Bac announced a “General Exhibition… of New Winter Fashions”, which promised to be “remarkable” due to the quantity of the merchandise on offer, its exceptional quality, and its competitive pricing.  In the same edition, another shop advertised a similar exhibition of “Winter Articles”, which had already seen “such a large number of visitors” that it would continue over the following days.  The Parisians of 1864, however, had good reason to think of their furs and overcoats: in the first week of November, the city was plunged into an extraordinary cold snap. “Shivering winter arrives at a pace!” wrote a correspondent in the Journal pour toutes for the week of 5 November, “Winter, with its long evenings, with its fireside pleasures.”  The Moniteur of 8 November marvelled at the intensity of the chill: “the cold has been so intense that it has frozen Paris as in the harshest periods of winter”, with morning temperatures as low as -3.9 degrees.   This “suddenly glacial” weather wasn't all bad news, though: the Moniteur of 9 November observed that the dry cold was preferable to the rains that were likely to follow, and that it was popular with farmers, since it killed off insects.     Wishing you an excellent Napoleonic week, Peter Hicks and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper   THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, N° 734, 7-13 NOVEMBER, 2014 Interested in the work of the Fondation Napoléon? 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