All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Working for Napoleon. The case of Moreau de Saint-Méry, general administrator of Parma and Guastala.
| In August 1800 the first Consul Bonaparte appointed Moreau de Saint-Méry as general governor of the duchy of Parma and Guastala. Moreau was a returned émigré, a respectable man of letters, and member of the Council of State. He had been part of the Patriot faction in 1789 but emigrated to the USA in 1792, frightened by what he saw as the deviation of the Revolution. He was exactly the type of moderately liberal bureaucrat that Napoleon needed and, indeed, he enthusiastically implemented Napoleon’s policies in the part of Italy under his control. However, his unwillingness to use violence in response to local protests provoked the wrath of the emperor and ultimately cost him his job. This paper will discuss the case of Moreau de Saint-Méry as a window into the expectations and duties of French elites in foreign lands during the Napoleonic era.
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