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THIS MONTH'S BOOK
Napoleon: Centres of power, by Bernard Chevallier
This useful, slim volume is a beautifully illustrated compilation of details concerning the private properties, offical residences (both in France and abroad), occupied palaces and residences in exile.
DISCOVERY OF MASS GRAVES OF NAPOLEONIC SOLDIERS IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY
In Austria, a mass grave dating from 1809 has been discovered near to the village of
Ober-Siebenbrunn, containing the remains of French soldiers buried after the Battle of
Wagram. Full details can be found on the site Histoire.org.
In Germany, a similar grave has been discovered during excavations in the Bruehl quarter of
the town of Erfurt containing the bodies of about one hundred soldiers of the Napoleonic
period. Erfurt was occupied by the French between 1806 and 1813. The men probably died in
1813 in the typhoid epidemic which coursed through French field hospitals of the period.
On 16 June, 2004, an official ceremony was held for the re-burial of these bodies in the
French section of Erfurt cemetery, a section which also contains the bodies of soldiers who
died in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and in the First World War.
RE-ENACTMENT OF THE CAMP DE BOULOGNE
For two years, from 1803 to 1805, Napoleon methodically planned and organised his attempt to invade England, starting from the port of Boulogne-sur-mer. One of the best-known events at this military camp was the distribution of the first crosses of the Légion d'Honneur, which took place on 16 August, 1804, in front of more than 100,000 soldiers.
Every year, the Association Napoléonienne du Boulonnais organises a historical re-enactment of the Camp de Boulogne, including re-enactments of bivouacs, battles and concerts with thousands of re-enactors from Britain, Austria, Spain, Moscow, Belgium and Corsica all in period dress.
The re-enactment will take place on 3 and 4 July on two 9-hectare areas set around the Colonne de la Grande Armée.
SUMMER OPENING TIMES AT THE BIBLIOTHEQUE FONDATION NAPOLEON - M. LAPEYRE
The library will begin operating summer opening times from Wednesday 12 July until Thursday 13 August. In other words, the library will only be open two days a week, Wednesdays (1-6pm) and Thursdays (10am to 3pm). Starting from Monday 16 August, normal opening hours re-apply: Monday and Wednesday 1 to 6pm, TUesday from 4 to 9pm (last possible entrance 8pm) and Thursday from 10am to 3pm.
200 YEARS AGO
On 9 Messidor, An XII (28 June, 1804), the Chouan Georges Cadoudal was executed.
On 12 Messidor, An XII (1 July, 1804) saw the birth of Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, better known by her nom de plume, George Sand, whom Heinrich Heine qualified in 1854 as "the greatest prose poet the French possess."
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Obituary: 'Bob' Snibbe
Press review
RNR Rivista Napoleonica, Revue Napoléonienne, Napoleonic Review, 7-8, 2003
Spazi della borghesia e governo del territorio dell'Italia napoleonica
Forum Marengo 2002 (Alessandria 14-16 June, 2002)
What's on
- Conference: Napoleonic Society of America, Annual Conference, Washington
Conference: Napoleonic Alliance, Annual Conference, Boston
- Exhibition: Was für ein Theater, Krönungen & Spektakel in napoleonischer Zeit
(What a show! Coronations and pomp in the Napoleonic period), Château d'Arenenberg,
Switzerland
- Exhibition: Giovanni Spadolini's passion for Napoleon: a tale of history, politics and
culture, Elba, Italy
- Conference: England and Hanover, Cambridge (UK)
- Exhibition: Napoleon: the Emperor's coming! Veneration and myth in Coblenz (Germany)
- Exhibition: Napoleon and Poland (Saint-Cloud)
- Commemoration: Ligny 2004
- Exhibition: Napoleon and the sea, a dream of Empire, Paris
The monthly titles
- This month's book: Napoleon: Centres of power, by Bernard Chevallier
- This month's painting: The Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris, Johan Barthold Jongkind
(1819-1891)
- This month's article: Naval warfare of a new kind during the Napoleonic age: The case of
the Anglo-American war of 1812-1814 - part 2, by Sylvain Pagé
- In the Collectors Corner, scale model of the frigate La Muiron
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