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Britain and the Black Legend: The Genesis of the Anti-Napoleonic Myth

open access: yes, 2016
Few leaders have managed their reputations as successfully as Napoleon Bonaparte. So beguiling was his image that just thirty-three years after the disaster of Waterloo, his untested nephew, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, was elected President of the Second Republic with an overwhelming popular mandate.
exaly   +3 more sources

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN THE MEMORY OF FRANCE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY: BETWEEN THE “NAPOLEONIC LEGEND” AND HISTORICAL SCIENCE [PDF]

open access: yesVoprosy vseobshchei istorii, 2021
Автор статьи обратилась к особенностям формирования образа русской кампании 1812 г. в памяти французов в эпоху Реставрации и Июльской монархии. Именно первая половина XIX в. стала важным этапом конструирования "французской" версии событий 1812 г.
Постникова, А. А.   +1 more
exaly   +3 more sources

BRITISH SOLDIERS AND THE LEGEND OF NAPOLEON

open access: yesThe Historical Journal, 2017
ABSTRACTInvestigating the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British officers and enlisted men from the Napoleonic Wars, this article explores the hitherto neglected subject of British soldiers’ perceptions of Napoleon. Soldiers often formed mixed and ambivalent views on Napoleon.
GAVIN DALY
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