2021 Année Napoléon > Publications
On the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I, many works (coffee-table books, essays, biographies, novels…) are being published for the first time or are being republished: discover the titles of partner publishers.
► See here a full list of partners and events!
► If you’re in Paris, why not get the full bookshop experience and buy the books from our Paris bookshop partner : Librairie Fontaine, Paris 8e, or you can visit the platform for French independent bookshops. All links on this page go to French-language sites except where stated.
Updated 25 February 2021; not definitive list – other titles will regularly be added
– BUCHET•CHASTEL –
* Marengo ou l’étrange victoire de Bonaparte, by Jean Tulard (March 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– CLÉMENTINE ÉDITIONS –
* Napoléon ou la solitude d’un visionnaire, by Wenceslas Godel (March 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– ÉDITIONS CÊTRE –
* Napoléon saint. L’Empereur au paradis, by Vincent Petit (February 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– ÉDITIONS DU CERF –
* Napoléon et Jésus. L’avènement d’un messie, by Marie-Paule Raffaelli-Pasquini (March 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– ÉDITIONS DU ROCHER –
* Napoléon, les derniers témoins racontent. Une anthologie, by David Chanteranne and Jean-François Coulomb des Arts (March 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– EPA ÉDITIONS –
* Dans les rangs de la Grande Armée de Napoléon, by Michel Roucaud (April 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website.
– GALLIMARD –
* Napoléon n’est plus, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée de l’Armée/with the Fondation Napoléon (March 2021)
→ Gallimard Beaux Livres
– LE FAUNE –
* Napoléon par Caulaincourt. Le retour de Russie, by Armand de Caulaincourt (May 2021)
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– PARIS MATCH HORS-SÉRIE –
* La folie Napoléon. La gloire, l’exil, la mort, Paris Match, Hors-série, coll. À la Une, n° 16 (18 February 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– LE POINT HORS-SÉRIE –
* Napoléon. La grande aventure, Le Point Hors-série, 100 p. (17 December 2020)
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– MICHALON –
* Le Maréchal Moncey, by Axel Brücker (May 2021)
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– MICHEL LAFON –
* Napoléon. L’esprit des lieux, by Annabelle Matter and Alexis Gérard (photographers), Jean-Christophe Buisson (text) (October 2020)
* Dessiner pour Napoléon. Trésors de la Secrétairerie d’État impériale, catalogue of the exhibition at the Archives Nationales (March 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– NAPOLÉON 1er/REVUE DU SOUVENIR NAPOLÉONIEN –
* N° 98 > Dossier L’entourage féminin de Napoléon, November 2020-January 2021
* N° 99 > Dossier Les aides de camp, au service de la gloire, February-April 2021
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– PASSÉS/COMPOSÉS –
* Les douze morts de Napoléon, by David Chanteranne (January 2021)
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– PERRIN –
* Napoléon. Dictionnaire historique, (link to résumé in English) by Thierry Lentz (September 2020)
* Sainte-Hélène, by Pierre Branda (7 January 2021) ► interview with the author
* La saga des Bonaparte, by Pierre Branda, coll. Tempus (7 January 2021)
* La Révolution militaire napoléonienne, by Stéphane Béraud, coll. Tempus, tome 1 and tome 2 (25 February 2021)
* Les Cent-Jours, by Charles-Éloi Vial (25 February 2021)
* De Buonaparte et de Napoléon, by Fr.-R. de Chateaubriand / Bernard Degout (25 February 2021)
* Le dernier témoin. Cahier du général Bertrand (1820-1821), by François Houdecek (spring 2021)
* Pour Napoléon, by Thierry Lentz (10 March 2021)
* “Général Buonaparte, notre voisin” : Témoignages anglais sur Napoléon prisonnier (1815-1821), by Peter Hicks (Autumn 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– PUAM –
* Joseph-Marie Portalis. Diplomate, magistrat et législateur, by Raphaël Cahen et Nicolas Laurent-Bonne (dir.), 2020
→ Visit the website of éditions Presses Universitaires Aix-Marseille
– QUE SAIS-JE ? –
* Napoléon et le bonapartisme, by Arthur Chevallier, coll. Que Sais-Je ?, January 2021 ► interview with Arthur Chevallier, one of the main curators of the exhibition “Napoléon” (Grande Halle de la Villette, 14 April-19 September 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– RMN-Grand Palais –
* Napoléon, exhibition catalogue “Napoléon”, RMN-GP, La Villette (April 2021)
* Napoléon. Journal de l’exposition, by Xavier Mauduit, RMN-GP, La Villette (April 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– SECRETS D’HISTOIRE –
* Napoléon, l’exilé de Sainte-Hélène, magazine Secrets d’Histoire, n° 29 (4 February 2021)
→ Visit the publisher’s website
– TALLANDIER –
* L’Aiglon. Le rêve brisé de Napoléon, by Laetitia de Witt (August 2020) Interview with the author in English
* Napoléon chef de guerre, by Jean Tulard, member of the Institut (republication, coll. Texto; September 2020)
* Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, by Gilbert Martineau (republication, coll. Texto; January 2021)
* Eugène de Beauharnais, fils et vice-roi de Napoléon, by Michel Kerautret (14 January 2021) ► interview with the author
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