Digital Library

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  • Lettres de Sophie, reine des Pays-Bas au prince Napoléon 1839-1877
    • Paris
    • 2016

    Présentées et annotées par Christine Tane.   La correspondance de Sophie de Wurtemberg, par la suite princesse d’Orange puis reine de Hollande et de son cousin germain le prince Jérôme-Napoléon, débute en 1839 au lendemain du mariage de Sophie et se poursuit pendant trente-huit ans. Les lettres mettent en évidence un lien fait de fascination réciproque, […]

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  • GIFFON-SCAPULA (J.-F.), Les troupes corses de la Révolution au 1er Empire (1789-1815) Des processus et des mutations, la Corse militaire une identité complexe
    • 2016

    Master. Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

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  • Tournon, Rapports sur l’Espagne à l’Empereur et Roi, 1807-1808
    • [s.l.]
    • [Gabriel Madec]
    • [2017]

    Rapports sur l’Espagne de Philippe de Tournon, chambellan et officier d’ordonnance de Napoléon Ier, 1807-1808. Présentés et annotés par Gabriel Madec.

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  • Schuermans, Itinéraire de Napoléon, (1908)
    • Paris
    • Picard et fils
    • 1908

    Day-by-day calendar account of Napoleon’s life, from birth to death. [This document is also available as en epub file]

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  • Mehlisse (E.G.C.), [Liste de prisonniers français], (1826)
    • Paris
    • Henri Guillemé
    • 1826

    Tableau of the 16,000 soldiers who fought for France taken prisoner in the period 1810 to 1814 (Russia, Poland and Germany), including a list of all the those soldiers (out of the 16,000) still alive and in Russia. [This document is also available as en epub file]

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  • Souvenirs du colonel Morin, commandant le 5e Régiment de Dragons, sur son séjour en Espagne (du 21 juillet 1812 au 26 mai 1813)

    • Manuscrit
    • 1813
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  • Tableau des demi-soldes, (1820)

    • Paris
    • Imprimerie royale
    • 1820

    The first part of the work concerns the officers kept in service but on a non-active payroll, followed by changes and extinctions put in place since the previous list was put together, published on the 1st October 1817. The second part gives the list of officers admitted to the reform payroll following their departure from service, followed by officers admitted or to be admitted to the pension fund. Each section is concluded with a summary. The volume ends with a general comparative summary of the situation of the half-pay service.

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  • The late Prince imperial (The Illustrated London News, 1879)

    • London
    • The Illustrated London News
    • 1879

    This special-edition of The Illustrated London News, was published in Great Britain on the occasion of the return of the mortal remains of the Prince Imperial, who died in South Africa on 1 June 1879. It contains numerous engravings, full or double page, and a detailed account of the last hours of the son of Napoleon III and his last journey on board The Orontes to his final destination – the church of Chislehurst (England) where the funeral service took place on 11 July 1879.

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  • The Second Empire and its downfall. The correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon III and his cousin Prince Napoleon, (1925)

    • Freeport
    • Books for libraries press
    • 1925

    The correspondence between first cousins Charles-Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), son of Louis Bonaparte and Napoleon-Joseph-Charles (Prince Napoleon, known since his childhood by the nickname “Plon -Plon”), son of Jerome Bonaparte, from October 1837, to October 1872. At the age of 14, after the death of his mother, Plon Plon spent a year in Arenenberg, Switzerland, with his cousin, fourteen years his senior. A lasting friendship ensued, not without storms and different politics.

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  • Thiers (Adolphe), Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire, (1845-1862)

    • Paris
    • Paulin
    • 1845-1862
    • Volume 1. Constitution de l'An VIII ; Administration intérieure ; Gênes ; Marengo
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