Niqueux, Michel <br/><br/>
“Conversation between Bonaparte and an English traveller” 

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<br/><br/> In 1819, Alexander Ulybyshev (1794-1858), an important figure in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a musicologist of international renown, invented a dialogue between an English traveller and Napoleon. In the same vein as his anti-despotic utopia written in the same year, Ulybyshev used the figure of the English traveller to represent Napoleon as a democrat and fierce opponent of the Holy Alliance. As such, the text is an excellent example of the re-evaluation of Napoleon that took place in Russia post-1814, notably in what were later to become Decembrist circles. Here published and translated for the first time is the dialogue and a presentation of the work.