Name: The French Empires and the Coups of State
Start: 2026-10-03T11:00:00.000+02:00
End: 2026-10-03T12:00:00.000+02:00
Location: Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen (CUM)

Animated by Arthur Chevallier, historian and publisher. With Xavier Mauduit, journalist and historian.

ARTHUR CHEVALLIER is the author of several books dedicated to the political, cultural and artistic posterity of the First Empire, among which Napoleon without Bonaparte The Editions du Cerf. Arthur Chevallier is also a columnist for Le Point, Marianne and C tonight.
Last book published : History of emotions (Deer).

XAVIER MAUDUIT, journalist and historian, is an Associate and Doctor of History, winner and jury member of the Mérimée Award, winner in 2025 of the Richelieu Award of the Association de la Défense de la langue française. Author of numerous books on the history of the nineteenth century and the two empires, including
Napoleon III (PUF, 2023) and Fou d’Histoire (Armand Colin, 2024) with artists, authors, authors, who express their relationship to history. He is a producer on France Culture for the show The Course of History and columnist on Arte in issue 28’.
Last book published : Napoleon III (PUF).