Publications

This catalogue of the exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery (28 January – 24 May 2026), was produced with the support of the Fondation Napoléon. While the literature on Viollet-le-Duc in French is extensive, with the notable exception of curator Martin Bressani’s monumental monograph…

As we approach the bicentenary of her birth in 2026, discover — or rediscover — Empress Eugenie in this accessible and well-researched American biography, which sheds new light on an often underestimated figure in the history of the Second Empire. This book traces the journey…

[Bilingual French/English edition], 225 illustrations. With contributions by Thomas Blanchy, Pierre Branda, Alain Bottaro, Élisabeth Caude, Camille Crunchant, Thomas Fouilleron, Ilia Malakhov, and Charles-Éloi Vial. This catalogue extends the experience of Monaco and the Napoleons, a remarkable exhibition [11 July – 31 August 2025 at…

Volume 1: Politics and Diplomacy (Coordinators: Broers Michael, Dwyer Philip) Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to discuss the different aspects of the […]

This text is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian field marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace. One of the most important military minds of the period, he is credited with defeating Napoleon and saving Russia, though…

Book in Russian The Fondation Napoléon has been working for five years with professors Vladimir Zemtsov and Victor Chudinov through the History Forum in Yekaterinburg. And both men have recently agreed to serve on the editorial board of the Fondation Napoléon’s forthcoming English-language online journal,…

Publisher’s presentation: Retrieving memories from the French interlude of 1798-1800 the author presents current academic theories of collective memory and researched documents – some for the first time – in Malta and abroad to argue the case for Malta’s identity as perceived by different generations…

This remarkable book turns the spotlight on an strangely un-illuminated part of the Napoleonic Wars, namely Prisoner of War incarceration, whether in Prison or in Hulks, focussing particularly on the specially constructed POW prison on Dartmoor (UK). Two juxtaposed statistics illustrate graphically why this book is welcome – there were between 130,000 and 150,000 French […]

In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio […]

First came the news of the French defeat in Russia in January 1813. Then six months later, Europe learned of the French rout at Vitoria. European commentators felt that Napoleon’s days were numbered. The aspiring German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was so inspired by Wellington’s…