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ArticleA Saint Helena MiscellanyHas Cipriani's tomb really disappeared? by Thierry LentzWho wrote 'Letters from the Cape'? by Peter Hicks
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ArticlePublication of the complete Correspondance of Napoleon I: initial results of the Fondation Napoleon’s grand projectA little more than six months after the laucnh of the historical adventure of the publication of a complete and critical edition of the correspondance of Napoleon, the moment has come to consider the initial results. It must be said that the project is proceding…
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ArticleThe Légion d’Honneur
The Légion d'Honneur is currently the oldest existing order in France, since those of the Ancien Régime disappeared definitively in 1830 and no other imperial order survived events of 1815. As a result of this situation, the Légion is often seen not only as Napoleonic but also strongly linked to the orders which were abolished, […]
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ArticlePeace of Amiens
The Definitive Treaty of Peace between and his Britannic Majesty and the French Republic, his Catholic Majesty, the Batavian Republic : signed at Amiens the 27th day of March 1802. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the […]
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ArticleTreaty of LunévilleTreaty of Peace, concluded at Lunéville, Feb. 9, 1801, between the French Republic and the Emperor and the Germanic Body.
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ArticleThe British Navy, 1793-1802
Introduction The British Navy as it appears at the battles of the Nile and Copenhagen cannot be properly understood without considering the preceding eight years of war with Revolutionary France, the semi-disaster at Toulon, against the young artilleryman, Bonaparte, the (real) fear of invasion, the growth of the empire, the huge efforts at recruitment into […]
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ArticleNapoleon’s Death: New Findings From His Autopsy
The dispute regarding Napoleon's cause of death continues after 180 years because the practice of medicine was not scientific at that time. When we analyze the doctors who treated Napoleon at different times before his death we should judge them fairly according to the standards of knowledge at that time. Nevertheless, the same treatment and medical […]
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ArticlePauline Fourès, Napoleon’s lover
Pauline Fourès, née Marguerite-Pauline Bellisle, Napoleon’s lover Stendhal or real life? If we are to believe Frédéric Masson, then the truth of the life-story of Pauline Fourès is indeed stranger than fiction. Born in southern France, 15 March, 1778, the daughter of clockmaker Henri-Jacques-Clément Bellisle and his wife Marguerite Barandon, Pauline worked initially as a […]
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ArticleThe ‘Institut d’Égypte’ and the Description de l’Égypte
The Eighteenth century in France is marked by the publication of Diderot's Encyclopédie and the ideas of Illuminism, 'the enlightenment', from the French word 'lumières' or lights. These concepts underline the beginnings of rationalism, ideas of classification and arrangement of human learning in a single book, in order. Napoleon, a student of gunnery, one of […]
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ArticleThe Siege and the Taking of Malta
Malta and the Knights Hospitaller of St John Any discussion of the 1798 taking of Malta, the subsequent siege and liberation must begin bearing in mind the two fundamental events of the ten years immediately preceding the annexation of Malta to France. First, on 30 July 1791, the powers that were declared the denationalisation of […]