To return to the site, www.napoleon.org, please click here.   Bulletin - Bulletin                    THIS MONTH'S PAINTING The execution of the Duc d'Enghien, by Jean-Paul Laurens As a republican dyed in the spirit of 1848, Laurens was a painter of conviction whose works were often ideologically charged.  A painting of the death of the Duc d'Enghien could not be politically innocent. Alongside Laurens' obsessive themes death, power, and the tragedy of existence, we clearly see a denuciation of regimes which wield power arbitrarily.   New on the site! File on the Athenaeum Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-king of Spain spent many happy years on his country estate in New Jersey (US) called Point Breeze. The collection which he established there ended up at the nearby Philadelphian cultural society called the Athenaeum. It can still be viewed there today.   Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!   Peter Hicks Historian and Web editor          THIS WEEK: Websites Napoleon Online, a detailed Napoleonic military website in German Go to the Napoleonic Directory, and select 'Militaria' in the Web sites scroll bar menu   Just published - Austrian Commanders of the Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815, by David Hollins - Napoleonic Naval Armaments, 1792-1815, by Chris Henry - Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814, by René Chartrand - The Napoleonic Wars: the rise and fall of an empire, Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Todd Fisher   What's on - Commemoration: Ligny 2004 - Commemoration: Crimean War, in Santena (Italy) - Exhibition: Napoleon. The Sacre, at the Musée Fesch, Ajaccio - Talks: Centro Studi Gioacchino e Napoleone Circolo Culturale L'Agorà - 5 Maggio III - Exhibition: Jean-Baptiste Wicar: portraits of the Bonaparte family - Exhibition: Napoleon and the sea, a dream of Empire, Paris - Exhibition: Napoleon and the Jouy Cloth   The monthly titles - The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte 1801-1803, by John D. Grainger - This month's painting: The execution of the Duc d'Enghien, by Jean-Paul Laurens - This month's article: Naval warfare of a new kind during the Napoleonic age - part 1, by Sylvain Pagé - In the Collectors Corner, leaf from Napoleon's coronation crown <<