To return to the site, www.napoleon.org, please click here.   Bulletin - Bulletin                    THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE I am delighted to annouce the appearance of Napoleonica. La Revue, an international, multi-disciplinary historical e-journal published by the Fondation Napoléon.   We have long been conscious of the lack of an appropriate international platform for specifically Napoleonic research, whether by academics or by independent scholars. This e-journal is our attempt to fill the gap.   I hope that you find it stimulating and interesting.   Victor-André Masséna President of the Fondation Napoléon EDITORIAL We hope that you will agree with us when we say that Napoleonica. La Revue is rich and varied. This first issue contains no less than seven articles and an exceptional bibliography, the whole spanning about 450 printed pages.   The editorial committee of international specialists is our ‘quality control', and we have received a generous grant from the French national publication institution, the Centre National du Livre, to help with setup costs.   Feel free to sign up. It is to be published three times a year, and readers can either take out an annual subscription or buy individual articles. We think that the subscription price is reasonable (60 euros for one year, 7 euros per article).   Enjoy your read, and long live Napoleonica. La Revue!   Thierry Lentz Director of the Fondation Napoléon        THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH ON THE TWO EMPIRES Napoleonica. La Revue [www.napoleonicalarevue.org] is an e-journal which aims at encouraging research into the two French empires. It is academic in spirit, multi-disciplinary and international.   «Napoleonic» history suffered for many years (particularly in France) from the indifference of university historians, abandoning the field to history writers and enthusiasts. As a result, many potential fields of research have remained unexplored.   The aim of Napoleonica. La Revue is to reply to this need, and in this it is another manifestation of the Fondation Napoleon's policy of encouraging interest in, and the study of, Napoleonic history.   Napoleonica. La Revue is open to all genres of history, namely, general, literary, social, economic, financial, institutional, administrative, military, diplomatic, art, etc. It is not Franco-centric and welcomes contributions from historians worldwide, particularly regarding their own countries (the languages of publication are however English and French).   The international nature of Napoleonica. La Revue is to be guaranteed by the editorial committee and by the publication in French and English of articles and book reviews and by the very subjects of the contributions.   In addition to a section dedicated to book reviews and event information, Napoleonica. La Revue will also have regular themes: figures from the two Empires, history of art, history of law and institutions, social, economic and financial history, diplomacy, etc.   We will also being developing certain other features, including a bibliographical service, the re-publication of important out-of-print articles and the publication of previously unpublished documents, etc.        THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE The director of Napoleonica. La Revue is Victor-André Masséna, President of the Fondation Napoléon. He will be assisted by chief editor, Thierry Lentz, Director of Fondation Napoléon, and two sub-editors, Irène Delage, head of the Service documentation at the Fondation Napoléon, and Peter Hicks, Chargé des affaires internationales at the Fondation Napoléon.   The contents of the journal are decided by the editorial committee, the president of which is Patrice Gueniffey, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, director of the Centre Raymond Aron. The members of the committee are as follows: - Éric Anceau, Lecturer, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne (France) - Rafe Blaufarb, Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee (USA), Director of the Institute of Studies on Napoleon and the French Revolution - Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Professeur, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne (France), President of the Institut Napoléon - Pierre Branda, Independent scholar, specialist in the history of economics and finance - Steven Englund, Distinguished NYU Professor at the American University of Paris (France) - Jacques Garnier, Independent Scholar, Trustees of the Institut Napoléon, military history specialist - Sudhir Hazareesingh, Professor, University of Oxford (UK) - Annie Jourdan, Professor, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, Professor, Istituto universitario orientale, Naples (Italy) - Alain Pougetoux, curator, Musée National de Malmaison (France) - Volker Sellin, Professor, University of Heidelberg (Germany) - Emmanuel de Waresquiel, Director of Studies, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (France)        NUMBER 1, MAY-AUGUST, 2008 CONTENTS   FIRST EMPIRE Institutions The role of the Grand maréchal du Palais during the First Empire, by Pierre Branda, Independent scholar, specialist in the history finance and economics   Napoleon and Charlemagne, by Thierry Lentz, Director of the Fondation Napoléon   Administration Forestry policy during the Consulate and Empire. The example of the Meurthe département, by François Lormant, Director of Studies, Centre Lorrain d'Histoire du Droit (University of Nancy II)   History of Art François Gérard (1770-1837), or the chance for a great career by Élodie Lerner, PhD   History of Music On the discovery of Les Abencérages by Cherubini (1813), by Jean Mongrédien, Emeritus Professor, University of Paris-Sorbonne   Army and War The Militarisation of society in Georgian Britain and Napoleonic France, by Peter Hicks, PhD, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bath   Bibliography French colonial policy, 1789 - 1815, by Chantal Lheureux-Prévot, Librarian at the Fondation Napoléon   SECOND EMPIRE History of politics The Second of December, the archetypal coup d'État?, by Emmanuel Cherrier, Lecturer, University of Valenciennes BOOKS REVIEWS AND NEWS [free access] Book reviews - Éric Anceau: Napoléon III, Tallandier, 2008, reviewed by Sudhir Hazareesingh - Ingo Knecht: Der Reichsdeputationshauptschluß vom 25. Februar 1803. Rechtmäßigkeit, Rechtswirksamkeit und verfassungsgeschichtliche Bedeutung, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2007 reviewed by Volker Sellin - Philip Dwyer: Napoleon, The Path to Power, 1769-1799, London: Bloomsbury, 2007, 651 p. reviewed by Steven Englund   Napoleonica varia - La politique d'expansion napoléonienne. Occupation ou intégration. by Patrick Bernhard - Les indépendances de l'Amérique espagnole à travers les archives diplomatiques françaises by Jean Mendelsohn        GENERAL INFORMATION   Napoleonica. La Revue is published three times a year. The articles are either in French or English, but all have abstracts in both languages.   Access to the journal is via subscription. Readers can either take out an annual subscription or buy individual articles. Subscription can be made online via the secure payment system.   The book reviews and reports are accessible free of charge. These may be in French or English.   The Napoleonica. La Revue website includes a regularly updated events calendar, announcing conferences, exhibitions, study days, calls for papers, etc., independent of the publication of the issues of the journal.   You can sign up for an alert, informing you of the publication of each issue of Napoleonica. La Revue.   For further information, please contact us at napoleonicalarevue@napoleon.org   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.          <<