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THIS MONTH'S OBJECT
Clock: "Diogenes looking for a man", by Claude Galle
This extraordinary allegorical timepiece by the bronzesmith Galle takes the famous anecdote of Diogenes 'the Cynic' walking around Athens at midday with a lantern in his hand 'looking for a man' and uses it as a pretext for glorification of the emperor. In his calm and simple pose, Napoleon is represented as a hero of antiquity.
LIBRARY BIBLIOTHEQUE LAPEYRE-FONDATION NAPOLEON DURING THE SUMMER
The library Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre - Fondation Napoléon will be open during as usual during the summer. However, from 28 July to 14 August will open only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 6pm. For any further information, please contact either Madame Lheureux-Prévot, Librarian, or Peter Hicks for information in English.
NAPOLEON IN BRESIL
If you happen to be in Brazil, Sao Paulo to b precise, don't forget to go to the great Napoleon exhibition there, which opens on 24 August (closing on 2 November). More than 300 Napoleonic items will be on show, 150 of which come from the collection of the Fondation Napoléon.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
19 July, 1803, the Tsar Alexander I proposed Russian mediation between the two great power of Britain and France and sent to his ambassador in Paris, Markov, a plan for an agreement: France should abandon its positions in Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, but would keep the Rhine frontier and Piedmont; Britain would cede Malta to Russia but would keep Lampedusa. Napoleon refused categorically on 11 Fructidor (29 August).
After being briefly in Antwerp, Bonaparte reached Brussels on 2 Thermidor, An XI (21 July, 1803). There he met the secretary of the King of Prussia with the aim of establishing a Franco-Prussian alliance.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Journal news
- Napoleon III, Lord Palmerston and the Entente Cordiale
Web site
- Historical research in Europe
Go to the Napoleonic Directory, select 'Databases' in the websites scrollbar at bottom of the page and click on 'Search'.
Just Published
- Ungovernable Rock: A History of the Anglo-Corsian Kingdom and its Role in Britain's Mediterranean Strategy during the Revolutionary War, by Desmond Gregory
- Sicily: The Insecure Base: A History of British Occupation of Sicily, 1806-1815, by Desmond Gregory
- Malta, Britain, and the European Powers, 1793-1815, by Desmond Gregory
What's on
- Exhibition: Bonaparte or Buonaparte
- Re-enactments: Central European Napoleonic Society - Events 2003
- Exhibition: 1803 - A Turning Point in European History: the Collapse of Feudalism and the Dawn of the Bourgeois Era
- Festival: Australian Napoleonic Congress, New South Wales
- Re-enactment: Napoleonic Association British Summer Events
- Re-enactment: Napoleonic Association Continental Summer Events
The monthly titles
- Book of the Month: Napoleon's captivity on St Helena, 1815-1821, by Arnold Chaplin
- This month's picture, Reception of the Ambassadors from Siam at the Château de Fontainebleau, by Jean-Léon Gerome
- Article of the Month, '"The Arming of the Nation" - Speeches by William Pitt 'the Younger', July 1803'
- In the Collectors Corner, a clock, "Diogenes looking for a man", by Claude Galle
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