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EDITORIAL
The Fondation Napoléon is approached with ever increasing frequency by researchers and students, both French and other nationalities, either on specific research questions or for practical information. A recent visit to the Florida State University, which itself possesse a Napoleonic Studies Centre, brought us into close contact with the needs of the teachers and students who come to Paris for their studies or theses.
This is why we have decided to create a new information bulletin aimed at researchers and students. It will be sent out two or three times a year, and each number will aim to respond to specific issues raised by the Napoleonic public: important books and periodicals, archive and library opening times, key exhibitions, etc.
I present to you the work of Irène Delage and Peter Hicks, and invite you to write to them to help me and them to fine tune it.
I wish you all efficient Napoleonic research and - why not - enjoyable Napoleonic entertainment.
Thierry Lentz
Director of the Fondation Napoléon
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LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVAL CENTRES THIS SUMMER
The National Library of France, the Bibliothèque Nationale: regular opening times in July and August. The annual closure takes place from 5 to 18 September, 2005.
For further information:
The French National archives, the Centre Historique des Archives de France: because of refurbishment work, consultation of Archive Nationales documents is currently taking place at the Hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois (3rd arrondissement), from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 6pm.
Research aids online can be consulted here http://www.caran.culture.fr/caran/.
For further information:
Since the 1 January, 2005, the French Defence Historical Service, the Service Historique de la Défense now covers the departments of the Armée de terre (Army), the Marine (Navy), the Gendarmerie and the Armée de l'Air (Airforce), with no change in address.
The reading room for the historical department of Armée de Terre (what used to be called the SHAT) will be closed during the following periods: from 14 to 18 July inclusive, from 1 to 5 September inclusive, from 31 October to 1 November inclusive, and from 26 December 2005 to 2 January, 2006 inclusive.
For further information:
The library of the French Army Museum, the Bibliothèque du Musée de l'Armée
The library is open for the whole of July, by appointment, at the usual times, Monday-Friday, from 10am to 12-45pm and from 2pm to 5pm. The library is closed in August.
For further information:
The specialist Napoleonic library, Bibliothèque Thiers
Open in July at the usual opening times, Thursdays and Fridays, from 12 noon to 6pm. The library will be closed for the whole month of August.
For further information:
The specialist art history/Napoleonic library, the Bibliothèque Marmottan
Open in July at the usual opening times, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 2pm - 6pm, and Saturday from 9-30am to Midday and from 2 - 5pm. The library will be closed for the whole month of August.
For further information:
The library of the Fondation Napoléon, the Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre - Fondation Napoléon
The library will be open all summer, but from 18 July to 25 August, the opening times will change to Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 1-30 to 6pm.
The catalogue can be consulted online at www.napoleon.org.
For further information:
Open to all, researchers and general public alike, the Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre - address: 148 boulevard Haussmann (8th arrondissement) - offers more than 7,000 titles on the history of the First and Second Empires, not to mention 130 reviews, the Bulletins des lois, the Almanachs impériaux, the daily papers Le Moniteur and Le Moniteur universel.
Also available are many research aids:
- the inventories of the various Napoleonic collections held at the Archives Nationales (Napoleonids, Murat, Ney),
- the inventory of memoirs and documents: Fonds France and fonds divers for the countries of Europe up to 1896, from the Archives du ministère des Affaires Etrangères,
- the fundamental work by Ronald J. Caldwell: The era of Napoleon: a bibliography of the history of Western civilization, 1799-1815,
many memoirs, journals and sets of correspondance of Napoleon I's contemporaries, not to mention the first 2 volumes of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte published by Fayard and the Fondation Napoléon (1784-1797 and 1798-1799).
also consultable are the latest important works on the subject by the best specialists (Boudon, Lentz, Waresquiel, etc.)
=> consult here our STUDY AND RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY on napoleon.org
NEW FORUM
Finding documents, thesis, publication of articles, notification of conferences, seminars and meetings, exchange of ideas : to enliven this Forum especially made for you!
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NAPOLEONICA.ORG
The site www.napoleonica.org aims to put Napoleonic primary sources at the disposal of researchers and historians via the Internet. Most of all, readers can perform full-text searches on the material. To date there are five collections containing more than 8,000 documents.
IF YOU DESIRE FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO PASS ON INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT IRENE DELAGE OR PETER HICKS.
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Interested in the work of the Fondation Napoléon? Why not participate, either generally or in a specific project, by making a donation.
© this Napoleon.org bulletin is published by the Fondation Napoléon. Reproduction or all or part of this bulletin is forbidden, without prior agreement of the Fondation Napoléon.
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THE FONDATION NAPOLEON RESEARCH GRANTS
Every year the Fondation Napoléon encourages the study of the First and Second Empires by awarding six research grants to six French or non-French students in the first year of their PhD (or MPhil intending to go on to PhD) on a First or Second Empire subject.
The grants are awarded by the jury of the Fondation Napoléon Grands Prix and Research Grants. Each grant is worth 7,600 Euros.
For further information on the Research Grants contact Thierry Lentz
REQUEST FOR CONTRIBUTION
You have done a MPhil or a PhD on the First or Second Empire. To encourage the exchange of knowledge and ideas, please send us a copy of your work to Fondation Napoléon, Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre, 148 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris - France.
THE HISTORY GRANDS PRIX
Every year the Fondation Napoléon also prizes for books in French or in a language other than French whose subject is related to the history of the First or Second Empires.
For further information:
WHAT'S ON
These three dates (selected from many others) come from the excellent conference Calenda website or 'Agenda des sciences sociales'.
- Call for Papers: History Department of Georgia State University (Atlanta), March 2006: Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 - proposal deadline 15 October
- Conference in January 2006 in Strasbourg: Travel in Europe from the Consulat to the Restoration. National constraints, cosmopolitain temptations.
- Conference in 2006 in Lyons, for the bicentenary of the creation of the Conseil des prud'hommes de Lyon
THE NAPOLEONIC MUSEUMS
For all the information you need regarding the Napoleonic museums of Malmaison, Bois-Préau, Compiègne, Fontainebleau, Ile d'Aix and Ajaccio, visit their websites: presentations of collections, exhibitions, acquisitions, practical information.
See also the site for the Musée de l'Armée
and the website for the Château de Versailles.
EXHIBITIONS IN EUROPE IN 2005
- Napoleon on Campaign, the emperor's bivouac, at the Arc de triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris
- Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), the Célébrités du Juste milieu (1832-1835), at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Napoleonic documents at the Bibliothèque de l'Institut: the Hippolyte Larrey and Joseph Bonaparte collections (by appointment only), at the Institut, Paris
- Napoleon. The Napoleonic collection of the Imperial cité, at the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio
- Nelson and Napoleon, National Maritime Museum, London
- Three centuries of military painting, at the Wellington Museum, Waterloo
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