PRESENTATION

Napoleonica. La Revue is an online review which aims to promote research on the history of the First and Second French Empires.

Napoleonica. La Revue, published by the Fondation Napoléon, is an academic, multidisciplinary, international review.

The review is produced with the generous support of the Centre National du Livre (CNL).

ISSN : 2100-0123

An academic review

For many years now Napoleonic history has suffered from lack of interest at university level, being left instead to the studies of historical writers and enthusiasts. As a result, whole fields of research and thought have been left untouched.

Napoleonica. La Revue aims gradually to make good this lack of interest, while at the same time pursuing a policy of publishing source materials and organising meetings and colloquia at the Fondation Napoléon.

The academic nature and standard of published articles will be guaranteed by an independent academic committee, chaired by M. Patrice Gueniffey, director of studies at EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) and director of the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. He will be supported in this task by renowned university academics in the subjects in question and by specially recruited experts.

La Revue will furthermore also undertake a study of key publications and will publish book reviews. It will do the same for colloquia and exhibitions.

A multidisciplinary review

Napoleonica. La Revue will not impose any limits with regard to the subject matter handled; it will include history of all kinds: general, literary, social, economic, financial, institutional, administrative, military, diplomatic, history of art, etc.

The journal will not be exclusively French-focused, and we invite non-French historians to submit articles for publication, which may naturally also be about their respective countries.

An international review

The international perspective of Napoleonica. La Revue will be guaranteed by the composition of the Academic Committee, by the publication in French or English of articles and reviews, and by the subject material itself.

Besides reviews of books and events, Napoleonica. La Revue will organised by themes:

• Personalities from the two empires
• History of art
• Legal history
• Institutions
• Administrative systems
• Social history
• Economic and financial history
• Diplomacy
• Internal affairs policy

We shall also be developing some more original themes with the aim of offering a service to researchers:

• Comprehensive bibliographies on a given subject.
• “Golden oldies”: we shall be re-publishing major “mythical” articles on Napoleonic history, the kind of studies about which historians have all heard, but which are not readily available.
• Documents: publication of outstanding documents with annotations.
• Archives: specialists will present collections from public or private archives to make the work of researchers easier.

ORGANISATION

Editorial director

• Victor-André Masséna, president of the Fondation Napoléon.

Editor-in-chief

• Thierry Lentz, director of the Fondation Napoléon

Copy editors

• Irène Delage, head of documentation service and new technologies at the Fondation Napoléon
• Peter Hicks, in charge of international relations at the Fondation Napoléon, Visiting Professor, University of Bath (UK)

Academic committee

• Patrice Gueniffey, director of studies at EHESS, director of the Centre Raymond Aron, committee president.
• Éric Anceau, senior lecturer at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
• Rafe Blaufarb, professor at  the Florida State University (FSU), director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at FSU in Talahassee (USA)
• Jacques-Olivier Boudon, professor at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, president of the Institut Napoléon
• Pierre Branda, economic and financial historian
• Steven Englund, Distinguished NYU Professor at the American University of Paris
• Jacques Garnier, administrator at the Institut Napoléon, military historian
• Sudhir Hazareesingh, professor at the University of Oxford (UK)
• Peter Hicks, in charge of international relations at the Fondation Napoléon, Visiting Professor, University of Bath (UK)
• Annie Jourdan, professor at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, professor at the Oriental Institute at Naples (Italy)
• Alain Pougetoux, heritage conservationist, Musée National de Malmaison
• Volker Sellin, professor at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
• Emmanuel de Waresquiel, director of studies at EPHE (École pratique des hautes études)

HOW TO PROPOSE AN ARTICLE

Article proposals must be sent by email to the editor-in-chief, Thierry Lentz, who will then submit them to the academic committee.

The article must take the form of a document in Word format, sent as an attachment to the email, addressed to lentz(@)napoleon.org

Although the flexibility of online publishing does not, in principle, impose any limitation on article length, these should nonetheless be no longer than 80,000 characters, including spaces.

Article presentation should contain as little extra formatting as possible.

Tables, graphs and illustrations must be positioned where possible in the emailed document. We will however accept these components in a separate document, provided that their location in the article is clearly indicated in the “manuscript” document.

Each article must include:

• a title
• an abstract of 1,500 characters maximum, including spaces
• a body of text divided into headed paragraphs
• the author’s signature, job title and email address

Footnotes should be inserted at the bottom of the page, using continuous numbering. Bibliographical conventions are those generally adopted by academic reviews.

Authors should include a few lines of biographical information and a brief CV giving details of their publications and a list of their most recent works or important published research. They should agree to grant exclusive rights to their text to Napoleonica. La Revue for a period of 2 years. They will be sent twenty hardcopy printouts of their article after its publication.

CONTACT

Napoleonica La Revue

Fondation Napoléon

148 boulevard Haussmann

75008 Paris

France

Phone.: +33 (0)1 56 43 46 00

Fax: +33 (0)1 56 43 46 01

Email : napoleonicalarevue[@]napoleon.org