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ArticleNaval warfare of a new kind during the Napoleonic age: The case of the Anglo-American war of 1812-1814 – part 1Sylvain Pagé charts the breakdown of relations between France, Britain and America as the continental blockade came into operation, leading into the War of 1812 and the attack on the British North American colonies (today Canada). The author takes into account the various factors that drove the United…
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ArticleThe French Civil Code or Code Civil, 21 March, 1804 : an overview
The context As early as the 15th century, the royal houses of France instigated the collection of laws regulating human relations – some Roman laws based on the Justinian code, and other based on common custom, the former being written down (and having jurisdiction not only over France but also Alsace) and the latter oral, […]
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ArticleThe Emperor’s New Clothes and The Death of Napoleon, back to backA consideration of the soon-to-be-released film and the book which inspired it
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ArticleThe Fondation Napoléon History Grands Prix and Research Grants, 2003The Grands Prix 2003 were awarded on 25 November, 2003, at a very pleasant lunch in the presence of HIH, the Princess Napoléon.
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ArticleAutograph Bonaparte letters at the Universities of Princeton (USA) and Vilnius (Lithuania). A tale of Napoleonic forgeries?Forgeries of letters by Napoleon existed even when Napoleon himself was alive. And some of the suspected forgeries are impossible to unmask – that’s why we couldn’t not publish some distinctly doubtful letters in the Correspondance générale de Napoléon I. This article however, deals with another…
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Article‘Palmerston’s Follies’: a reply to the French ‘threat’
From the arrival of Louis-Napoleon as President in 1848 up until the debacle in 1870, Franco-British relations saw a roller-coaster ride, from close partnership (during the Crimean war) to downright hostility. And yet the period is characterised by the expression, used by Palmerston in 1844, “entente cordial” or warm understanding. Indeed, during the more hostile […]
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ArticleNapoleon’s Courtesans, Citoyennes, and CantinièresThis article explores the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – a transition which saw, according to the artist Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, women deposed as rulers of the age – from a female point of view. Susan P. Conner traces the roles pursued by women following the Revolution…
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ArticleA history of the Franc: the key moments
The birth of the "franc": the ordonnance of 5 December, 1360 Jean II Le Bon (John the Good) passed an ordonance creating the first 'franc' on 5 December, 1360. This gold coin or denier (3.885 grammes of 24 carat gold), showing the king on horseback, was minted as payment the ransom for the King held prisoner […]
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ArticleThe Fondation Napoléon’s project for the publication of the complete Correspondance of Napoleon I: March 2003, 2nd ReportThe Committee for the Publication of the Correspondance of Napoleon met on 20 March, 2003. One year after the launch of the project to publish for the first time the complete correspondance of Napoleon, the publication date for the first two volumes, namely Autumn 2004,…
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ArticleNapoleon and the theatre
A passionate theatre-goer Theatre and spectacle were close to Napoleon’s heart. In the fifteen years of Consulate and Empire he saw 374 plays. But since he saw certain works more than once – in fact the record was Cinna which he saw twelve times – he actually made a total of 682 visits to the […]