To return to the site, www.napoleon.org, please click here.   Bulletin - Bulletin                    EDITORIAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Remember, remember Way back when in November 1996... Napoleon.org appeared on the web, with its brash colours and new style, providing Napoleonic history enthusiasts and professionals with their own space, to meet and learn. Ten years later, the show goes on, thanks to your continuing support and enthusiasm. This November we're going to be celebrating our tenth birthday with special events and fun stuff. On 15 November, there'll be a new home page and a new RSS service which you can sign up for, giving you alerts for updates in your favourties sections. On 24 November you will be able to download ringtones and logos for your portable telephones! And from 24 November we'll be putting online radio interviews with Jean Tulard, Pierre Nora and French television presenter Patrick Poivre D'Arvor... all conducted by Franck Ferrand in partnership with Europe 1 radio. But there would be no napoleon.org without you, so Happy Birthday to you too!   Irene Delage and Peter Hicks        THIS MONTH'S PAINTING Napoleon meditating before the tomb of Frederick II of Prussia in the crypt of the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam, by Marie Nicolas Ponce-Camus   Despite having made his triumphal entry into Berlin and having annihilated the Prussian army at the twin battles of Jena and Auersted, 14 October 1806, Napoleon nevertheless seems to have been obsessed by hte memory of Frederick the Great's victories. Ponce-Camus here echoes this uncertainty and shows Napoleon meditating before Frederick's tomb in the Garnisonkirche in Potsdam.  © RMN        EXHIBITION: CHAMPIGNON BONAPARTE In partnership with the Boulogne-Billancourt town council, the Fondation Napoléon and Editions Seuil jeunesse, the Bibliothèque Marmottan is to host a large exhibition of the illustrations produced by the cartoonist Gilles Bachelet and in particular his wonderful album, Champignon Bonaparte. Opening on 16 November, the exhibition highlights Bachelet's amusing take on the legend and life of Napoleon, including satirical representations of personalities from the First Empire court. There's also a ten-metre panorama drawn specially for the exhibition. © Gilles Bachelet 2005        MINI DOSSIER LOUIS-FRANÇOIS LEJEUNE (1775-1848) ARTIST Born in 1775, Lejeune took part in all Napoleon's major campaigns and was a celebrated artist during the Empire period. He was friends with David and Gérard, and his works, with their extreme attention to detail, provide almost a photographic (though exceedingly subjective) record of the battles in which he played role. One of his most famous paintings was that of the Battle of Marengo, shown here. © M.P. Moinet - Pictures:  *The Battle Marengo (1801): The Battle of Marengo (detail 1) The Battle of Marengo (detail 2): Kellermann's charge The Battle of Marengo: Bonaparte (detail 3) The Battle Marengo (detail 4): Lejeune   *Bear hunt near the waterfall at the Lac d'Oo, near Bagnères de Luchon * General Bonaparte gives his orders at the battle of Lodi bridge, 10 May, 1796        200 YEARS AGO End of the Prussian Campaign of 1806: On 10 November, Mortier occupied Hanover, and on 16 November a Franco-Prussian armistice was signed at Charlottenburg. Art: On 13 November, 1806, Houdon had just «finished his bronze bust of Marshal Soult and had it installed in the Musée Napoléon (Louvre)» (Publiciste, 14 November, 1806) Fashion: «Outfits of 1806 had two major drawbacks: the sides of the hat used to rub against the dress collar and boots used to get caught in the skirts of the coat. [...] Outfits for 1807 will have none of these disadvantages. Boot-makers have abandoned the so-called "Suvarov boot" for the French half-boot and dressmakers have flattened their collars and shortened coats by a good half and inch, thus eliminating any rubbing whatsoever. This year's coat is cut so short and tight that it looks òore like a jacket or even a spencer.» (Journal des Dames et des Modes, 14 November, 1806)   150 YEARS AGO On 15 November, 1856, in Bruxelles, newspapers announced the engagement of Princess Charlotte, daughter of King Léopold I with the Archduke Maximilien, second brother of the Emperor François-Joseph of Austria. The zedding took place the following year, on 27 July, 1857. (Moniteur universel, 16 November, 1856) The couple was to achieve unfortunate notoriety when Maximilien, as emperor of Mexico, was executed by firing squad on 19 June, 1867. In November, 1856, on the island of Guernesey, Victor Hugo moved to Hauteville-House, a property which he had bought several months earlier on the royalties from his work, Contemplations. Hauteville-House was a vast house on three levels for which Hugo undertook enormous restoration work. He also rented a house in the same street for his mistress, Juliette Drouet.    Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week. Peter Hicks Historian and Web editor   THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, No 390, 10-16 November, 2006 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 weekly bulletin is published by the Fondation Napoléon. Reproduction or all or part of this bulletin is forbidden, without prior agreement of the Fondation Napoléon.          THIS WEEK in the MAGAZINE 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 Exhibitions: - Dagoty in Paris - the Empress Josephine's porcelain manufactory, Rueil-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 Got a problem with the letter? Try the home page: http://www.napoleon.org<<