The latest issue of Napoleonica the journal is now available on Cairn, free to consult, download or you can buy a print copy for 7 €. The theme of this issue is “True Colours”.

Why did Napoleon tell some English visitors to Elba that he had converted to Islam? Why was Kléber’s victory at Heliopolis ‘painted over’? Did Madame de Staël always hate Napoleon, or is that picture less monochrome? How did Napoleon I alter the rhetorical shades in his three 1814 abdications? Was Orsini really the brains behind the bloodshed in 1858? Was Director Paul Barras as ‘crooked as a nine-pound note’ or whiter than the driven snow? This new issue of Napoleonica the journal proposes what might be the ‘true colours’ for all these questions.

Contents:

Editorial, Peter Hicks
The battle of Heliopolis: a forgotten victory, Alexander Chudinov
The virtues of abdication: taking the “personal” out of the relationship between Germaine de Staël and Napoleon, Stéphanie Genand
4, 6, and 11 April 1814. Napoleon I’s three abdication declarations, Charles-Éloi Vial
Talking to the British: recently discovered accounts of English conversations with Napoleon on Elba, Peter Hicks
‘Doctor’ Simon François Bernard the architect of the “Orsini conspiracy” against Napoleon III, Ilma Golicz
Between rumour and reality: Paul Barras’s fortune, Pierre-François Pinaud
BRUN, Jean-François. La Grande Armée: Analyse d’une machine de guerre. Paris: Pierre de Taillac, 2023, 640 p., Alexander Mikaberidze

See all previous issues.

21 September 2024