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16
.
Burton,
Blood in the City
, p. 73; Cabanis,
Le sacre de Napoléon
, pp. 97–8.
17
.
See, for example, Christian Pfister,
Les fêtes à Nancy sous le Consulat et le Premier Empire (1799–1813)
(Nancy, 1914), pp. 89–92.
18
.
Bouët du Portal, ‘A propos de la Saint-Napoléon’, 160. In 1804, it was the ‘Napoleon Battery’ in the harbour of Cherbourg; in 1806, it was the posing of the first stone of the Arc de Triomphe; in 1808, the inauguration of the Arc du Carrousel; in 1809, it was the opening of the Ourcq canal, and the relocation and restitution of the Fontaine des Innocents (today near Les Halles); in 1810, the inauguration of the Vendôme Column; in 1811, the opening of the Port Napoléon at Cherbourg.
19
.
Such as J. Mayer and Abraham de Cologna,
Odes hébraïques pour la célébration de l’anniversaire de la naissance de S.M. l’Empereur des François et roi d’Italie
(Paris, 1806).
20
.
Pierre de Joux,
Discours de bénédiction, de reconnaissance et d’actions de grâces pour l’anniversaire de la naissance de l’empereur Napoléon-le-Grand
(Nantes, n.d.), pp. 4–5.
21
.
See, for example, Melchior-Bonnet,
Napoléon et le Pape
, p. 289.
22
.
Léon de Lanzac de Laborie,
La Domination française en Belgique: Directoire, Consulat, Empire, 1795–1814
, 2 vols (Paris, 1895), ii. pp. 113–22; Leflon,
Etienne-Alexandre Bernier
, ii. pp. 271–2; Michael Broers,
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy: The War against God, 1801–1814
(London, 2002), pp. 82–5.
23
.
André Latreille,
Le Catéchisme Impérial de 1806: études et documents pour servir à l’histoire des rapports de Napoléon et du clergé concordataire
(Paris, 1935), pp. 80–1; Latreille,
L’Eglise catholique et la Révolution française
, ii. pp. 135–9; Melchior-Bonnet,
Napoléon et le Pape
, pp. 86–8.
24
.
Bernard Plongeron, ‘Le catéchisme impérial (1806) et l’irritante leçon VII sur le quatrième commandement’, in Marie-Madeleine Fragonard and Michel Peronnet (eds),
Catéchismes et confessions de foi
(Montpellier, 1995), pp. 287–310; Plongeron, ‘De Napoléon à Metternich’, pp. 652–4.
25
.
Rowe,
From Reich to State
, p. 147. This was not always the case in the German-speaking departments. Stephan Laux, ‘Das Patrozinium “Saint Napoléon” in Neersen (1803–1856): ein Beitrag zur Rezeption der napoleonischen Propaganda im Rheinland’, in Jörg Engelbrecht and Stephan Laux (eds),
Landes- und Reichsgeschichte: Festschrift für Hansgeorg Molitor zum 65. Geburtstag
(Bielefeld 2004), pp. 351–81.
26
.
Hagen Schulze,
States, Nations, and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present
, trans. from the German by W. E. Yuill (Oxford, 1996), p. 177; Jean-René Aymes, ‘Du catéchisme religieux au catéchisme politique (fin du XVIIIe siècle–début du XIXe)’, in Jean-René Aymes,
Voir, comparer, comprendre: regards sur l’Espagne des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
(Paris, 2003), pp. 179–200.
27
.
Telesko,
Napoleon Bonaparte
, pp. 9–10; Barbara Beßlich,
Der deutsche Napoleon-Mythos: Literatur und Erinnerung 1800–1945
(Darmstadt, 2007), pp. 72–5. The following quotation is from Nancy Nobile,
The
School of Days: Heinrich von Kleist and the Traumas of Education
(Detroit, 1999), pp. 121–7, here p. 123.
28
.
Corr.
xi. n. 9633 (31 December 1805).
29
.
Haegele,
Napoléon et Joseph Bonaparte
, p. 192.
30
.
Jacques Rambaud,
Naples sous Joseph Bonaparte, 1806–1808
(Paris, 1911), pp. 13–14.
31
.
A good portrait of Maria Carolina is to be had in Jean-Paul Garnier,
Murat, roi de Naples
(Paris, 1959), pp. 110–26.
32
.
William Henry Flayhart,
Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805–1806
(Columbia, SC, 1992), pp. 53–172.
33
.
On the rise and fall of the Republic see John A. Davis, ‘The Neapolitan Revolution of 1799’,
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
, 4:3 (1999), 350–8; John A. Davis,
Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780–1860
(Oxford, 2006), pp. 72–93.
34
.
Rambaud,
Naples sous Joseph Bonaparte
, pp. 1–2.
35
.
Davis,
Naples and Napoleon
, pp. 130–2, 147, 249; Jordan,
Napoleon and the Revolution
, pp. 78–80.
36
.
Corr.
xi. n. 9625 (27 December 1805).
37
.
Corr.
xi. n. 9685 (19 January 1806).
38
.
According to Miot de Melito,
Mémoires
, ii. pp. 279–80.
39
.
Haegele,
Napoléon et Joseph Bonaparte
, pp. 206–7.
40
.
Moniteur universel
, 1 April 1806.
41
.
See Martijn van der Burg, ‘Transforming the Dutch Republic into the Kingdom of Holland: The Netherlands between Republicanism and Monarchy (1795–1815)’,
European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire
, 17:2 (2010), 151–70, here 157–60.
42
.
Rémusat,
Mémoires
, iii. pp. 33–4; Johann Joor, ‘Les système continental et sa signification pour le royaume de Hollande’, in Annie Jourdan (ed.),
Louis Bonaparte: roi de Hollande, 1806–1810
(Paris, 2010), pp. 132–3.
43
.
Louis Bonaparte,
Documents historiques et réflexions sur le gouvernement de la Hollande
, 3 vols (Brussels, 1820), iii. p. 260; Schama,
Patriots and Liberators
, p. 609.
44
.
Burg, ‘Transforming the Dutch Republic’, 159–62.
45
.
Napoleon to Louis, 5, 6 and 16 November 1806, in Lecestre (ed.),
Lettres inédites
, i. pp. 77, 79, 80.
46
.
Corr.
xii. nos. 9959, 10360, 10400 and 10572 (12 March, 13 and 22 June, 30 July 1806).
47
.
Las Cases,
Mémorial
, ii. pp. 375–6; Albert Du Casse,
Les rois frères de Napoléon Ier: documents inédits relatifs au premier empire
(Paris, 1883), p. 102.
48
.
Corr.
xv. n. 12291 (4 April 1807).
49
.
Louis Bonaparte,
Documents historiques
, i. pp. 164–5; Schama,
Patriots and Liberators
, p. 547.
50
.
Masson,
Napoléon et les femmes
, p. 151.
51
.
Boudon,
Le roi Jérôme
, pp. 155–75.
52
.
On Louis’ reign in Holland see Lentz,
Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire
, i. pp. 534–40.
53
.
Ehrmann,
The Younger Pitt
, iii. pp. 819–29; Hague,
William Pitt the Younger
, pp. 569–78, who argues that Pitt probably died of a peptic ulceration of the duodenum.
54
.
See A. D. Harvey, ‘The Ministry of All the Talents: The Whigs in Office, February 1806 to March 1807’,
Historical Journal
, 15:4 (1972), 619–48.

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