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A NEW NAPOLEON.ORG FOR THE END OF 2007!
In 1996, the Fondation Napoléon launched napoleon.org on the web. Ten years and two versions later, the Fondation is about to undertake a complete refurbishment of the site (more than 2.6 millions sessions in 2005). The aim of this questionnaire is to help us get to know you (Student, General Public, Researcher, Librarian/archivist/document professional, Publishing industry, Audio-Visual industry), so as to be able to bring you the most appropriate services. Napoleon.org is for you; we would be grateful if you could take some time to answer these few questions.
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THIS MONTH'S BOOK
Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 17801-1860, by John A. Davis
In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the European revolutions. The book's central themes are posed by the period of French rule from 1806 to 1815, when southern Italy was the Mediterranean frontier of Napoleon's continental empire. The tensions between Naples and Paris made this an important chapter in the history of that empire and revealed the deeper contradictions on which it was founded. But the brief interlude of Napoleonic rule later came to be seen as the critical moment when a modernizing North finally parted company from a backward South. Although these arguments still shape the ways in which Italian history is written, in most parts of the North political and economic change before Unification was slow and gradual; whereas in the South it came sooner and in more disruptive forms. (c) OUP
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SPECIAL BICENTENARY DOSSIER: NAPOLEON'S ENTRY INTO BERLIN
In commemoration of Napoleon's entry into Berlin on 27 October, 1806, we bring you a collection of images, accounts, articles and events all related to this extraordinary event. (c) Fondation Napoleon
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200 YEARS AGO
The Prussian Campaign of 1806 was reaching its conclusion. On 7 November, 1806, Blücher capitulated at Lubeck and on the following day Magdebourg surrendered to Marshal Ney's corps.
For those who haven't finished reading the two special dossiers:
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, 14 October, 1806
Napoleon's entry into Berlin, 27 October, 1806
150 YEARS AGO
Science:
«In the laboratory garden of the French Imperial Horticultural Society (the Société impériale et centrale d'horticulture), Monsieur Pissot (following instructions given by Monsieur Payen) has performed experiments to discover the effectiveness of differents types of fertiliser on different species of plants» (Moniteur Universel, 5 November, 1856).
Art:
On 7 November, 1856, the painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), son-in-law of Horace Vernet, was laid to rest in Paris - he had died five days earlier. The crème de crème of Parisian arts and letters, including Eugène Delacroix, flocked to the ceremony. Delaroche painted Napoleon many times but he avoided the "legend", always putting emphasis on the realistic and the natural. His famous counter image to David's Napoleon galoping over the St Bernard Pass showed the First Consul crossing the alps on a donkey, and his vision of Napoleon during the first abdication shows very much a mortal man in deep depression.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, No 389, 3-9 November, 2006
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THIS WEEK in the MAGAZINE
SNIPPETS
- The Salon du Premier Empire, planned for 1, 2 and 3 December, 2006, in Rueil-Malmaison has been cancelled.
- Photos of the Entry into Berlin
JUST PUBLISHED
- Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand, by David Lawday
WEB SITES
- Catalogue of French medals of the Napoleonic period online
Go to the Napoleonic Directory and select 'Other' in the web site scrollbar menu
WHAT'S ON
Commemorations:
- Special bicentenary dossier: The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, 14 October, 1806
- Special bicentenary dossier: Napoleon's entry into Berlin, 27 October, 1806
Conferences
- Napoleone e le donne, protagoniste, alleate, nemiche, Rome, Italy
Exhibitions:
- Dagoty in Paris - the Empress Josephine's porcelain manufactory, Reuil-Malmaison, France
- Napoleon III and Europe - 1856, Paris, France
- Napoleon, an intimate portrait, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Public Portraits, Private Portraits 1770-1830, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Louis Napoleon: at the court of the first King of Holland, 1806-1810, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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