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ArticleBook review: Les Cent-jours ou la tentation de l’impossible
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ArticleNapoleon III and Abd el-KaderAt the mid point of the 19th century, Napoleon III and Abd el-Kader were the most important figures in their respective countries, France and Algeria. They were both born in 1808, the former on 20 April and the latter on 6 September.
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ArticleSummer Reading for 2008We've selected a few titles here for you to take to the beach...
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ArticleProclamation to the Spanish people, 25 May, 1808
Bayonne, 25 May 1808Spaniards, after agonising long, your nation was perishing. I saw your suffering; I am bringing the cure. Your grandeur, your power have a share in my own grandeur and power.Your princes have ceded to me their rights to the Spanish crown. Whilst I have no desire to reign over your provinces, I […]
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ArticleThe Decree of Bayonne, 25 May, 1808
The kings and princes of the house of Spain have ceded to me their rights to the crown, as per the treaties of 5 and 10 May and the proclamations addressed to the Junta and the Council of Castile. We have decreed and do decree, we have commanded and do command, the following dispositions: Art. […]
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ArticleIn Farnborough, for the bicentenary of the birth of Napoléon III
On 20 April, 2008, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Napoleon III, St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, witnessed a ceremony the like of which probably not seen since the funeral of the Empress Eugénie in 1920. The Right Reverend Abbot, Dom Cuthbert Brogan OSB and the Benedictine monks of the […]
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ArticleSources recounting the birth of Louis-Napoléon, the future Napoleon III
According to the child's mother in her memoirs, Louis-Napoléon, third son of the King and Queen of Holland was born very early in the morning of Thursday 21 April (1 o'clock), at 8 Rue Cerruti (today 17 Rue Laffitte), in Paris. The child was born slightly premature and so of a weak constitution. It was […]
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ArticleBICENTENNIAL CLOSE UP ON NAPOLEON III, 1808-2008
Though the nephew of an Emperor and the son of a king, Louis-Napoleon's route to the throne of France was a difficult one. At his birth he was a sickly child and his mother, the Queen Hortense, suffered severe post-natal depression. Napoleon I, however, is supposed to have said that Louis-Napoleon was perhaps the future […]
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Article"Bleeding ulcer": the commencement and long-term consequences of guerilla warfare in Iberia
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ArticleDecree dated 7 September, 1854, instituting the commission in charge of the publication of the Correspondence of Napoleon I
NAPOLEON, by the grace of God and by the will of the nation, emperor of the French,To all present and future generations, hail.We have decreed and decree the following: Article the firstA commission has been instituted to gather, coordinate and publish the correspondence of our august predecessor, Napoleon I […]. Art. 2This commission composed […]