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ArticleNapoleon I and the integration of the Jews in France: some points of interest
Whilst the Catholic and Protestant (reformed and Lutheran) religions in France saw their relations with the State reorganised during the Consulate period, with the signtaure of the Concordat (1801) and the addition of the Organic articles (1802), Napoleon took but little interest before 1806. The Empire at that time included 170,000 Jews, a third of […]
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ArticleImperial decree of 20 July, 1808, concerning Jews with no fixed first or family names
Bayonne, 20 July, 1808ART. 1Those amongst our subjects who follow the Hebrew religion, and who, up to the present, have not had fixed surname or first names, shall be ordered to adopt one in the three months following the publication of this our present decree, and to make a declaration of the fact before the […]
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ArticleImperial decree of 17 March, 1808, prescribing measures for the execution of the regulation of 10 december, 1806, regarding the Jews
Tuileries Palace, 17 March, 1808 Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine; Following a report by our Interior Minister;Having heard the advice of our Conseil d'Etat, We have decreed and now decree the following: Art. 1: The regulations decided by the General […]
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ArticleGastronomy during the Second Empire: Menu for a feast served on 19 February, 1857, in Paris by Moïse Polydore Millaud
On 19 February, 1857, the banker Moïse Polydore Millaud, owner of the newspaper La Presse (which he had bought from Émile de Girardin in 1856) gave a feast at his town mansion in rue Saint-Georges, Paris. The Goncourt brothers were both invited, and the menu which they preserved is eloquent testimony for the elaborate nature […]
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ArticleThe wars of the ‘Fourth Coalition’: part one, the Polish Campaign
In his important article published in 1926 in the Revue des Deux Mondes (XXIV 824), Gabriel Hanotaux opens with the words: “The year of 1807 is the year of fate in the reign of Napoleon”. (Quoted in Peter Geyl, Napoleon for and against, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949, p. 417.) This essay is a consideration of […]
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ArticleDecree founding the temporary Polish governing commission (Komisja Rządząca) (Warsaw, 14 January, 1807)
Art 1. Until Poland's fate is decided by a definitive peace, this country is to be managed by a temporary government.Art 2. This government is to be composed of seven members. It is to take the title, Governing Commission.Art 3. The Governing Commission is to appoint a president from one of its number. It is […]
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ArticleTHE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FOR 2007
2007 brings with it new Napoleonic bicentenaries: some military, as with the Polish campaign, some diplomatic, such as the Treaty of Tilsit and the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, some political, namely the reform of the Corps législatif, the abolition of the Tribunat, the promulgation of the Code de commerce and the creation of […]
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ArticleNapoleonic Pages: a florilegium
Napoleonic pages is a section of the site dedicated to the historiography of the First and Second Empires. It focuses on important or simply curious publications written either as histories of, or simply produced during, those periods. Each file gives the history of a specific book and where appropriate reproduced certain images. Napoleonic Pages: Histoire […]
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ArticleErfurt 1808. The Emperor honours German literature
Introduction The Jena was also an important year for Goethe. He had been living in Weimar since 1775, having been summoned there by the young duke Karl August von Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Indeed the duchess Anna Amalia had already brought the famous German author Christoph Martin Wieland to live there, and Goethe himself was later to attract […]
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ArticleThe napoleon.org team Christmas Selection 2006
Memoirs and Biography LAWDAY David, Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince TalleyrandLOWRY James, MILLYARD John, (ed.) Fiddlers and Whores: the candid memoirs of a surgeon in Nelson's fleetMACÉ Jacques, Le général GourgaudSUMMERVILLE C. J., (ed.), Regency Collections: Captain Gronow's guide to life in London and Paris History BARRELL John, The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of […]