Research Grants 2024
In 2024, the Fondation Napoléon History Prize and Scholarship jury awarded scholarships to the following PhD students:
FIRST EMPIRE SCHOLARSHIPS
From the French Revolution to the end of the July Monarchy
The 2024 grant winners and their thesis topics:
- Constance MARQ, De l’antique au contemporain : le voyage des architectes anglais en France entre 1802 et 1834. [From antiquity to the contemporary: the journey of English architects to France between 1802 and 1834.] Thesis supervised by profs. Dana Arnold and Jean-Philippe Garric (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Sophie RECORDIER, Joseph Chinard (1756-1813) : sculpteur lyonnais. [Joseph Chinard (1756-1813) : a Lyon sculptor]. Thesis supervised by prof. Barthélémy Jobert (Sorbonne University)
SECOND EMPIRE SCHOLARSHIPS
From the Second Republic to the end of the 20th Century
- Bourse « MINOU AMIR-ASLANI » 2024 : Clément EOCHE-DUVAL, La Garde impériale du Second Empire. [The Imperial Guard of the Second Empire]. Thesis supervised by prof. Éric Anceau (University of Lorraine)
► In 2012, the Fondation Napoléon and Maitre Ardavan Amir-Aslani agreed that, for five years, a Fondation Napoléon research grant would bear the name of his mother Mme Minou Amir-Aslani, woman of letters and lover of history. In 2017, Maitre Amir-Aslani decided to continue his support for Napoleonic post-graduate research.
Minou Amir-Aslani was born in Teheran on 18 January, 1935, and died in Paris on 13 September, 2010. She was a keen enthusiast of literature and history, most notably that of the French Revolution and the First Empire. One particular fascination for her was the life of the Emperor Napoleon I and the role he played in the codification of laws and the organisation of the judicial system in France. Her birth in Iran at a troubled moment in its history inspired in her a determination to work throughout her life (spent mostly in France and Germany) for openness and the acceptance of other regardless of differences. She greatly admired the way history and law was taught in France; indeed, the tradition of French civil law heavily influenced the judicial system and positive law in her native country. And she had the utmost respect for university research. In her opinion, the only road worth taking was that of the search for knowledge, which in itself guarantees the independence of spirit and freedom of those who choose that road.
BOURSES XIXe SIÈCLE
- Margherita ACCIARO, « I bimbi d’Italia si chiaman Balilla ». La participation juvénile aux révolutions de 1848 en Italie, entre pratiques, récits et images. [Youth participation in the revolutions of 1848 in Italy, between practices, narratives and images]. Thesis supervised by profs. Gian Luca Fruci and Emmanuel Fureix (University of Pisa, Italy and Université Paris Est-Créteil).
- Léo BECKA, L’invention scientifique du Nord. Autour des expéditions scientifiques françaises des années 1830. [The scientific invention of the North. Around the French scientific expeditions of the 1830s]. Thesis supervised by profs. Julien Vincent and Jean-Luc Chappey (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Federica MANCINI, Dessin du pouvoir. Démocratisation et diffusion globale des uniformes brodés par l’atelier Picot-Brocard au XIXe siècle. [Drawing power. Democratisation and global diffusion of uniforms embroidered by the Picot-Brocard workshop in the nineteenth century]. Thesis supervised by prof. Thierry Sarmant (CY Cergy Paris Université)
- Adélaïde MARINE-GOUGEON, Des colons en itinérance : stratégies impériales des Blancs créoles de la Martinique au XIXe siècle. [Colonials on the move: imperial strategies of white Creoles in Martinique in the nineteenth century]. Thesis supervised by profs. Jacques-Olivier Boudon and Myriam Cottias (Sorbonne University)
