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BOOK OF THE SUMMER
Napoleon and Wellington, by Andrew Roberts: a revisionist view of the two great captains of their age!
Looking for something to read over the summer. Check out 'Just published', right back to 1993!
BIBLIOTHEQUE M. LAPEYRE - FONDATION NAPOLEON
During the month of August, the Fondation Napoléon's library, the Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre will have reduced openings times, namely Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-6pm.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Notice in Le Moniteur of 8 Messidor, An X [27 June, 1802]
"Citizen Rondonneau, owner of the 'Dépôt des lois' (depositary of laws), has just opened a reading room in his establishment. In addition to the daily papers, this contains: 1° a historical dictionary of the Revolution, comprising almost six hundred portfolios in two thousand volumes, [...]; 2° the completest collection possible of the edicts, acts of parliament, letters patent, laws, decrees, etc. from the year 1200 to the present day; 3° six hundred volumes of works on jurisprudence, or collections of legislation, both ancient and modern. The reading room is open every day except Sunday, from ten o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock in the evening. Those wishing to use the room must pay 30 centimes for each visit (6 sous). The price of a monthly season ticket 6 francs. There are specific conditions for civil servants and members of learned societies."
29 June, 1802 (10 Messidor, An X), the papal brief from Pius VII granting Bishop Talleyrand the right to return to lay status, and dated 10 march, 1802, was finally published. The Senate recorded the decision on 19 August, but not without some remonstrations on the part of certain senators.
The Journal des débats of 13 Messidor, An X [2 July, 1802] mentioned that "as a result of the recent war, France has acquired in addition a surface area of 1,498 square leagues [that is, 23,968 km2: 1 league = about 4 km, thus 1 square league = about 16 km2], and a population of 4,381,266; namely: Savoy, 477,700 inhabitants; the county of Nice, 93,366; Avignon, the 'Comtat Venaissin' [both forming part of the modern département of Vaucluse, ceded to the Revolutionary government by the Vatican in 1791] and Dutch Flanders, 200,500; Mastricht and Venloo, 90,000; Belgium, 1,800,000; the left bank of the Rhine, 1,658,500; Geneva and its territory, 40,000; Mulhausen, 7,200 [part of Prussia in 1803]."
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Don't know what to do for your holidays? Why not follow one of our Napoleonic itineraries,
to Corsica, Rueil-Malmaison, Compiègne, or even New York!
Snippets
- Archives Nationales: The safe...
Journal news
- The spring edition of the Member's Bulletin of the Napoleonic Society of America
What's on
- Auction: Sale of Empire items
- TV: Wellington: the Iron Duke
- Exhibition: First Empire clothing at the Riversdale House Museum (USA)
- Conference: Lycée high schools and their students, 1802-2002
- Exhibition: Victor Hugo seen through caricatures - Ending soon!
The monthly titles
- Book of the Month: The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power, by Roger Price
- This month's picture, Costume ball at the Tuileries Palace, by Carpeaux
- Article of the Month, Napoleonic art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Arie Ribon
- In the Collectors Corner, Desert plate from the «Service particulier de l'Empereur»
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