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ArticleNapoleonic pages: The Statistics of ‘Napoleonic France’
The Bibliothèque Martial-Lapeyre Fondation Napoléon Library has recently acquired two series of publications giving contemporary statistics for the France during the later Consulate and early Empire. These will serve as fundamental research tools for all those interested in the period. The first is a ‘universal' dictionary (described in the Notice as a Geographical dictionary) giving historical, […]
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ArticlePresentation of the new magazine published by the Groupe de Presse Michel Hommell: Napoléon III, le magazine du Second Empire
Presentation Eight years after the publication of the magazine Napoléon 1er, the press group Michel Hommell is launching, in partnership with the Fondation Napoléon, Napoléon III, le magazine du Second Empire. The links between the two regimes are clear, starting with Louis-Napoleon express desire to highlight the derivation of the Second from the First. On the […]
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ArticleChristmas Selection 2007
Looking for that perfect 'Napoleonic' present. Here's our selection. Happy Christmas! MILITARY BELL David A., The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, Houghton Mifflin, 2007World War I has been called “the war to end all wars”, the first time combatants were mobilized on a massive scale to […]
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ArticleThe Fondation Napoléon History Grands Prix and Research grants 2007
The winners of the Fondation Napoléon History Grands Prix and Research grants 2007 received their awards at a lunch on Monday on 19 November, 2007, held in the Paris Jockey Club and presided over by HIH the Princesse Napoléon and the Prince d'Essling.The prizes are awarded for historical work on the two French empires. Pierre […]
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ArticleNapoleonic Pages: Galerie des enfans célébres, by M. le comte de Barins, 1836
This delightful little book for young people was published in 1836. It was written to give the girls and boys born during the Restoration a vision of their glorious predecessors, of all nations, rank and destiny, and it included four engravings. Here (if not in reality) an Austrian peasant could rub shoulders with the sons […]
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ArticleFourth volume of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon and a new adventure!
It's true that we're still only at the beginning, but each volume has a story to tell. More than ever this is a team effort, with everyone giving their all. The team at the Fondation Napoléon have been assisted by more than 100 volunteer corresponding members, and it has to be underlined, that without them the […]
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ArticleA British agent at TilsitArticle reprinted from “The English Historical Review” of October, 1901
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ArticleArmistice between France and Russia, 21st of June, 1807
As his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, are anxious to put an end to the war which was so long divided the two nations, they have in the mean time resolved to conclude an Armistice; their Majesties have named and empowered the following Plenipotentiaries, viz. on the […]
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ArticleTreaty between France and Russia, Tilsit, 7 July, 1807
Treaty of Peace between His Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. Done at Tilsit, July 7th, 1807.HIS Majesty, the Emperor of France, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, animated with the […]
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ArticleTreaty between Prussia and France, Tilsit, 9 July, 1807
Conditions of Peace between his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and his Majesty the King of Prussia. Done at Tilsit, July 9th, 1807. HIS Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, and his Majesty the King of Prussia, animated with the […]