To return to the site, www.napoleon.org, please click here.   Bulletin - Bulletin                    Paris, 25 November, 2003   Every year the Fondation Napoléon awards its HISTORY GRANDS PRIX to books of distinction concerning the First and Second Empires. This year's winners were,   First Empire Prize: Emmanuel de Waresquiel, Talleyrand, le prince immobile, Éditions Fayard Waresquiel's Talleyrand was not only a huge critical success, but one of the history highlights of this year's French autumn book selection. Written using archives previously unstudied and, what is very much more, being itself a remarkable of re-evaluation of a bibliography large enough to make even the hardiest of historians think twice, this biography will be, for many years to come, the standard work on the man we will no longer be able quite so easily to call the '"diable" boiteux'.   Second Empire Prize: Nicolas Stoskopf, Banquiers et financiers parisiens sous le Second Empire, Éditions Picard This book is part of the major series "Les patrons du Second Empire" and is a detailed study of the Parisian bankers and financiers who played principal roles in the economic development of France under Napoleon III.   Prize for a book in a language other than French: Lisa and Joachim Zeitz, Napoleon's Medals, Imhoff Verlag, Petersberg (Germany) This beautifully illustrated book could also be entitled "A History of Napoleon in coins and medals". It present more than one hundred medals minted to commemorate the principle events which marked the First Empire (military victories, coronation, birth of the king of Rome, promulgation of legal texts, etc.).   Cinema Prize: Pierre Kubel (producer) and Antoine de Caunes (director), for the film Monsieur N. According the habitués of the celluloid art, this is one of the best ever films on Napoleon. And what is perhaps more remarkable, the story is not even factual. Antoine de Caunes, basing himself an idea of Pierre Kubel's, has made an important film which brings together accurate reconstruction, excellent character acting, humour and suspense as it plays with the pseudo-mysteries surrounding Napoleon's death.   The Fondation Napoléon Grands Prix, begun 25 years ago, are awarded by a jury made up Baron Gourgaud (President), Jean-Claude Lachnitt (Secretary General), Anne Muratori-Philip, Jean-Marie Rouart, of the Académie Française, Gabriel de Broglie, of the Académie Française, Jean Favier, of the Institut, professor Jean Tulard, of the Institut, professors François Crouzet, Bruno Foucart and Jacques-Olivier Boudon, president of the Institut Napoléon, Jacques Jourquin and colonel Paul Willing. Each winner receives a prize of 15,250 euros.     THE RESEARCH GRANTS   The jury also awarded six research grants, each of 7,625 euros, to students with research projects concerning the two Empires:   First Empire Research Grants: •   The Sénat conservateur of An VIII, a second, constituent assembly, by Clémence Zacharie-Tchakarian   •   Saragossa during the French occupation after the sieges of the Peninsula War 1809-1813, by Anne-Sophie Galofaro-Darmagnac    Second Empire Research Grants: •   Pierre-Victor Galland (1822-1892), painter and decorator, by Jeremy Cerrano   •   The Quai d'Orsay and the diplomats in Second Empire foreign policy, by Yves Bruley    Premier/Second Empire Research Grants: •   The life and work of Auguste Couderc (1789-1873), history painter, by Joanna Walkowska   •   The Arc de Triomphe, the construction and appropriation of a national monument 1806-1945, by Isabelle Rouge-Ducos   Thierry LENTZ          <<