The Awarding of one of the Franco-British Society Literary Prizes 2021
​followed with a lecture and drinks 

House of Lords 
Thursday 30th November 2023 

On 30th November 2023, The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve KC, President of the Franco-British Society, awarded one of the two Franco-British Society Literary Prizes 2021 to Ambrogio a.Caiani for his book 

"To kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII". 

The ceremony was followed by a fascinating lecture by the author on his book and drinks Reception.

Ambrogio received his PhD from Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge in 2009. Since then he has taught at the universities of Greenwich, York and Oxford, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent. Ambrogio's main research interests are Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Italy and his work has been published in several leading academic journals. He the author of, To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII 1800–1815 published in 2021 by Yale University Press and of Louis XVI and the French Revolution 1789-1792 published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. His most recent book is Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World;
 
The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy which was released by Head Zeus on 12 October 2023.
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