The latest issue of Napoleonica the journal is now available on Cairn, free to consult, download or you can order a print copy for 7 €.

We live in an age of global history, and this issue of Napoleonica. The Journal follows money, diplomacy, and warfare across Europe and beyond. Money, first and foremost, was the key to Napoleon’s rise and influence—from general to consul, then emperor. His relentless pursuit of financial means shaped his every decision, domestically and internationally. Such power and ambition stirred fears among his contemporaries that his goal was not just French hegemony, but personal universal domination.

• Poland’s place in the Napoleonic system?, Thierry Lentz

• Waterloo: the butcher’s bill, Paul L Dawson

• “Planting eagles”: 200 years of Waterloo battlefield relic forgeries, Bernard Wilkin, Robin Schäfer, Arne Homann

• Sylvanus Bourne (1761-1817) – U.S. consul general in Amsterdam 1800-1805, Chad Slater

BOOK REVIEWS

• Napoleonic objects and their afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage, 1821-Present, edited by Matilda Grieg and Nichole Cochrane (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)

• Pierre-Louis Roederer, Avec Napoléon: Journal, présentation et notes de Thierry Lentz (Paris: Perrin, 2025)