16 articles in this issue
Isabelle Bes Hoghton (Autor/a)
El 24 de julio de 1808, con la capitulación del General Dupont en Bailén, unos 9000 soldados franceses fueron declarados prisioneros de guerra y deportados en Mayo 1809 a la isla de Cabrera. Sólo unos 3700 regresaron a Francia en Mayo 1814. Unos cuantos d... see more
Rosa De Diego (Autor/a)
This article analyses the changes occurred in Paris in 1808 after the Revolution. Some urban transitions such as “the passages” are studied. Also new spectacles like “Panoramas” are analysed as well as the new habits and activities that began to be in fas... see more
Danielle Dubroca, Ángela Flores, Mª Vicenta Hernández Álvarez (Autor/a)
General Thiébault wrote his Memoirs in the 1830s. His memories of his time in Spain and the Peninsular War have suffered from the passing of time and literary transposition. Thiébault reorganized his past and his place in history: stereotypes representing... see more
Juan F. García Bascuñana (Autor/a)
Which books were used to learn French in Spain in 1808? Our study aims to analyse the books that Spaniards used to learn French in 1808, a crucial period in the history of Spain. It is not restricted, however, to these books. It also considers literary wo... see more
Thierry Giaccardi (Autor/a)
Contemporáneo de la epopeya napoleónica y del estrépito de armas que la acompaña, Joseph de Maistre, observador puntilloso de los acontecimientos del mundo terrestre e intérprete inspirado del mundo celeste, ofrece una visión radicalmente distinta de la h... see more
Covadonga Grijalva Castaños, Françoise Paulet Dubois (Autor/a)
En 1782, Jacques Delille publica Les Jardins, obra cuyo éxito duraría varios decenios. Se trata de una especie de tratado de jardinería rimado, del que examinamos el «Chant I», para extraer sus ideas y su construcción, sentir vibrar las emociones «ecologi... see more
Inmaculada Illanes Ortega (Autor/a)
Paul Morand considers history an important clue to understand a nation’s character. In Le flagellant de Séville, he uses Goya’s colours to paint Spanish soul by narrating an individual tragedy inscribed in the collective dramatic events of Spanish history... see more
Juan Jiménez Salcedo (Autor/a)
In this article Cabarrús’ Cartas (1808) are compared with other reglamentarist texts on prostitution in 18th century Europe, especially Rétif de la Bretonne’s Le Pornographe (1770). This article also provides a general insight on prostitution in France an... see more
Jean-Marc Lafon (Autor/a)
Readings from the testimonies (diaries on the march, letters, memoirs) by imperial officers and soldiers of the French Empire who entered the Peninsula between autumn 1807 and spring 1808 reveal how perplexed and disconcerted they were almost as soon as t... see more
Encarnación Medina Arjona (Autor/a)
The current work deals with Spain-related pieces of news published in two different papers. Both pieces offer information that could be described as uncomfortable for Napoleon Bonaparte. From La Revue ou Décade Philosophique we cover all references publis... see more
Françoise Morcillo (Autor/a)
En 1808 nació un genio llamado Gérard de Nerval. Rompiendo moldes, ya fue «avant la lettre» ese “yo es otro”: un poeta simbolista cuyas Chimères lo convierten en una de las voces más notables y cautivadoras del lirismo francés del siglo XIX. El presente a... see more
Daniel-Henri Pageaux (Autor/a)
Esta lectura de la novela de Arturo Pérez Reverte, Un día de cólera, dedicada al Dos de mayo intenta entender en qué consiste el verdadero desafío o reto que el novelista se ha planteado a sí mismo con una obra que consta de más de 300 personajes o por lo... see more
Alfonso Saura Sánchez (Autor/a)
On May 2nd, 1808, the entrance doors of the public playhouses in Madrid remained shut. Simbolically, this closure also represented the end of a period in the Spanish dramatic scene, characterised by the crucial presence of a Baroque repertoire and the des... see more
Antonio José de Vicente-Yagüe Jara (Autor/a)
In 1808, Bouffl ers published L’OEuvre de charité, nouvelle espagnole in Mercure de France. As it happens with the rest of his tales or short stories published at the beginning of the 19th century, this story has a moral nature, as it deals with the educa... see more
Cécile Vilvandre de Sousa (Autor/a)
En el melodrama La Jeunesse de Richelieu, Alexandre Duval lleva al escenario una de las figuras más emblemáticas del siglo XVIII, el duque de Richelieu, y, sacando partido del episodio de Madame Michelin, que leyó en las Memorias del ilustre personaje, ll... see more