The judges of the 2022 Franco-British Society Literary Award chose as the prize winner Napoleon at peace: how to end a revolution, by William Doyle. (Reaktion Books. 231 pp. £15.99. ISBN 9781789146172).
 

A history of how Napoleon ended the Revolutionary period in France, covering the period in 1802-1803 when he ended the republican polity the Revolution had brought and established himself as a monarch in all but name, brought the Revolutionary wars with the great powers of Europe to a peace advantageous to France, and reconciled France with the papacy. The attempts to recover France’s lost Caribbean empire, however, were a failure, and the fragile peace with the other great powers (including Great Britain) and the papacy soon broke down; the Revolutionary Wars became the Napoleonic Wars.
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This book covers specifically the only period of Napoleon’s career when he was not at war, a period usually just covered as an interlude in more general studies of his life.

William Doyle will be awarded Literary Prize winner 2022 by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, Minister for Culture, on 13th July at the House of Lords - Information available HERE. 

The Franco-British Society Literary Award Judges
  • Dr Cynthia Gamble, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter 
  • Munro Price, Professor of Modern European History, University of Bradford
  • Richard Vinen, Professor of History, King's College London 


The Franco-British Society Literary Award winners list 
The winners list from 1982 to 2022 is available here 

Prize winners 2021

To kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII, by Ambrogio A. Caiani (Yale University Press) - Will be awarded on 1st November 2023 at the House of Lords. Information available HERE. 

The fall of Robespierre: 24 hours in Revolutionary Paris, by Colin Jones (Oxford University Press)

Prize winner 2020

Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur, by Catherine Hewitt (Icon Books)

Prize winner 2019 

King of the world: a life of Louis XIV, by Philip Mansel (Allen Lane)