Volume V: 1805 – Boulogne, Trafalgar, Austerlitz

Volume five of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte, published by the Fondation Napoléon and Editions Fayard, contains 1764 annotated letters and a preface by Martine de Boisdeffre, Directrice des Archives de France. It was edited by Michel Kerautret and Gabriel Madec, with the assistance of François Houdecek, Elodie Lerner and Irène Delage, and includes six detailed studies, nine maps, a timeline and three indexes. Unlike previous volumes, volume five is concerned with just one year: 1805. This particularly busy year covers the camps at Boulogne, the battle of Trafalgar and the French victory at Austerlitz.

The Fondation Napoléon has been supported in this historic and exceptional venture by the Archives de France, the Fondation La Poste and more than one hundred volunteers.

Contents:

Preface by Martine de Boisdeffre
Publishing committee for the Correspondence of Napoleon
Introduction by Michel Kerautret and Gabriel Madec
Principles of publication by François Houdecek and Emilie Barthet
The General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte for 1805 (1764 letters)
Letters in private collections (contents unknown)

Studies:
– “La politique italienne de Napoléon en 1805” by Alain Pillepich
– “Essai de typologie des documents d’archives produits par le Cabinet de Napoléon et sa Secrétairerie d’Etat” by Jean-Bapiste Auzel
– “Claude-François Méneval, secrétaire de Napoléon” by Marc Allégret
– “Le camp de Boulogne” by Fernand Beaucour
– “La Grande Armée de 1805” by Gabriel Madec
– “Stratégie maritime de Napoléon en 1805” by Admiral Rémi Monaque

Appendices:
– Republican/Gregorian calendars conversion table
– Measures and currencies
– Maps

Timeline (1805) by Irène Delage
Publishing committee for the Correspondence of Napoleon (suite)
Manuscript and bibliographical sources (Volume 5)
Index of names
Index of destination institutions, entities and authorities
Index of places of composition.

Michel Kerautret and Gabriel Madec (eds.), working with François Houdecek, Elodie Lerner and Irène Delage, preface by Martine de Boisdeffre, Director of the Archives de France.

Paris: Éditions Fayard, 2008, 1 152 pages.