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TRIP TO BRAZIL FOR THE FONDATION NAPOLEON'S MARTIAL LAPEYRE COLLECTION
As a result of a request from the Brazilian Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, the Fondation Napoléon is participate in a Napoleonic exhibition wxhich is to take place from 17 August to 2 November, 2003 in Sao Paulo.
NAPOLEON THE EUROPEAN
The association Europartenaires, and the Friedrich-Ebert and Jean-Jaurès Foundations conducted a survey of the citizens of six European countries (Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the UK and Poland) in an attempt to discover who, in the opinion of those polled, best represented European identity.
When presented with a fixed list of personalities, Napoleon came fifth (with 14 % of the "vote"). First came Churchill (with 22 %), followed by Marie Curie and Charles de Gaulle (19%) then Konrad Adenauer (15 %).
When those polled were given free range, Napoleon came 6th, beating Joschka Fischer, Gerhard Schröeder, Charles de Gaulle, Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac.
It was in Italy that the emperor scored best in both lists.
THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE
Napoleon's Administrative Army – His Prefects, by Robert D. Williams
On February 17, 1800, First Consul Bonaparte issued a law revising the French administrative system. In place of Intendants, legislative representatives on mission and locally-elected directories, he instituted the rule of Prefects, directly responsible to the Minister of the Interior, and in reality, to the First Consul. With minor modifications, this system of civil administration exists in France to this day.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
23 Ventôse, An XI (14 March, 1803), a solemn mass was celebrated in the Parisian church of Saint Roch for the repose of the souls of the clerics who died during the French Revolution. The congregation at the service was so large that some people were forced to stand outside the porch of the church.
Gazette de France, 23 Ventôse, An XI
25 Ventôse, An XI (16 March, 1803), a law was passed regulating the role of the notary: notaries became "public functionaries who were legally allowed to receive all the acts and contracts to which different parties either had to or wished to give the character of authenticity attached to acts passed by public authority. Other tasks were the authentication of the date, the keeping of copies in deposit, and the mass publication of documents and the sending out of documents. In order to become a notary, a candidate had to be more than 25 years old, have trained for at least six months (the first two of which as a First Clerk), and to pay a deposit for his post. The government was to determine the number of notaries per département, although notaries already in practice before the promulgation of the new law were permitted to remain so.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Snippets
- Napoleonic engravings on the web
Journal news
- The Nelson Dispatch, vol. 8, part 1, January 2003
Just published
- The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The war against God, 1801-1814, by Michael Broers
- Wellington's Doctors: The British Army Medical Services in the Napoleonic Wars, by Martin Howard
Websites
Web portal on the Portuguese Army at the end of the Ancien Régime
Go to the Napoleonic Directory, and search 'Websites', 'Militaria'
What's on
- Exhibition: Bicentenary of the signature of the Act of Mediation (Switzerland, February 1803)
- Talk: The Annual John Warsop Memorial Lecture, Rediscovering Nelson, by Colin White
- Conference: The British Army 'The dark side of the force'
- Exhibition: Contemporary Paintings relating to Napoleonic Battles, by David Fertig
- Exhibition: Napoleon and Alexander I in Hildesheim (Germany)
- Exhibition: The first Italian Republic, 1802-1805
The monthly titles
- Book of the Month: Tactics and experience of battle in the age of Napoleon, by Rory Muir
- This month's picture, The Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806, by Horace Vernet
- Article of the Month, Napoleon's Administrative Army – His Prefects, by Robert D. Williams
- In the Collectors Corner, The Prince Impérial and his dog Néro, by Carpeaux
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