Napoleon III and Italy

Whilst surfing for information on the 1849 Siege of Rome and completing Trevelyan's book, "Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic", I stumbled across the fact that the Musee d'Armee had held and exhibition about Napoleon III's involvement with Italy and had published a rather nice catalogue of it.

Entitled "Napoleon III et L'Italie, Naissance d'une Nation" (Birth of a Nation) it covers the period from 1848 and France's involvement in the recapture of Rome through the Crimean War and the involvement of Piedmont, the 1859 war with Austria and the 1860's, ending with a painting of Garibaldi at Dijon in 1871.

This is an excellent companion to Detaille's "Armee Francaise" and to Trevelyan and is well worth getting your hands on. 

Here are some pictures of the contents.

Cover

Cantiniere's uniform

I got mine via Abebooks and I think it is listed on Amazon too. 300+ pages, high quality glossy paper. French Text.