Join the Napoleon 101 Facebook group!

Listener Marc Bergevin Vollebekk in Ottawa has created a Napoleon 101 group in Facebook as a place for us to discuss the topics on the show! Thanks Marc! You can join the group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.

Napoleon Gance Poster

Napoleon Gance Poster (2) Originally uploaded by cameronreilly Isn’t David Markham the bomb!?! He sent me this marvelous, fully framed and original poster from the 1980 restoration of Abel Gance’s 1927 silent epic “Napoleon”. I love it. This is...
#25 – The Invasion Of Russia (Part II)

#25 – The Invasion Of Russia (Part II)

In this episode, David talks us through The Battle of Borodino, which took place on September 7, 1812, and was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers and resulting in at least 70,000...

Transcripts of the Napoleon 101 podcast now available

We have partnered with a London-based company called Pods in Print to provide written transcriptions of the Napoleon 101 podcast starting at this stage from episode #21. Access to the transcripts requires a subscription. It’s US$12.95 for one month or $120 a year....

Three kisses from Napoleon worth £276,000

From the BBC this morning: A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, has fetched some £276,000 ($556,000; 409,000 euros) at an auction in London. In the letter – one of only three known to have been sent to Josephine by the French emperor...