Napoleon’s 100 days: Print, Satire, Song and Theatre
July 1, 2014
Radcliffe House, Warwick University
10.00 am Welcome, Introduction
Session 1 Elba
10.10 Munro Price, April 1814
10.25 J.R. Moores, Escape from Elba
10.40 Philip Shaw, Nicolas Philoctète dans l'île de Elba
10.55 Claire Trevien, L'enjambée impériale'
11.10 pause
Session 2: March 1815
11.15 Jordan Girardin, Napoleon's declaration to the people of Lyon, 13th March 1815
11.30 Allison Goudie, Les Violettes du 20 Mars, 20 March 1815
11.45 L.E. Jensen, On the return of Napoleon Buonaparte in Paris (1815)
12.00 Michael Drolet, the Journal des débats
12.15 Graciela Iglesias Rogers, Hispanic responses
12.30 Sarah Gray, Marengo
12.40 Lunch
Session 3: April 1815
1.15 Geoff Cubitt, 'The Embarkation of the Duchesse d'Angoulême’ (1819), 3rd April 1815
1.30 Patrick O'Donovan, Le double serment; ou, fidélité constante, 19-20 April 1815
1.45 Clare Siviter, Hector at the Comédie française, 22/ 23 April 1815
2.00 Dr Gareth Atkins, Religious reactions to 100 days
2.15 pause
Session 4: reactions outside France
2.25 Fabio Camilletti Battle of Tolentino (2-3 May 1815)
2.40 Peter Hill, Muhammad Ali returns abruptly to Cairo, May 1815
2.55 Emilie Delivré, The last catechism for German soldiers: Arndt’s Katechismus für den teutschen
Kriegs- und Wehrmann
3.10 Oskar Cox Jensen English ballads
3.25 Leighton James, German Central Europe
3.40 Tea/Coffee
Session 5: May 1815
4.00 Michael Sibalis, The fédérés, 14 May 1815
4.15 Malcolm Crook, Resistance to Napoleon: the Acte additionnel May 1815
4.30 John Dunne, village elections May 1815
4.45 Peter Clark, 'A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words; - or is it?'
5.00 pause
Session 6 : June/July 1815
5.15 Stacie Allan, Letter from de Duras to de Staël16 June 1815
5.30 Alan Forrest Mot de Cambronne/Waterloo18 June 1815
5.45 Mary Ann Constantine, The retaking of Bonaparte July 1815
6.00 Marion Joassin, Delavigne and Napoleon: The “god” Napoleon in Les Messéniennes, July 1815
6.15 Dinner
Concert/Performances
The Waterloo Songset
Katherine Hambridge and Kate Astbury