Napoleon and Antiquity: Views of Modern Historians
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The article attempts to find out the reasons for the marked interest of French and Russian researchers at the turn of the XX — XXI centuries in the problem of reception of ancient heritage during the era of the First Empire in France. Based on the analysis of key studies of recent decades, the nature of the impact of the images of antiquity on the political and cultural life of France in the late XVIII — early XIX centuries has been revealed. It has been established that the interest of historical science in recent decades in this problem is due, firstly, to the general interest of our days in the problems of power representation and, secondly, to the modern era of global changes associated with the collapse of the USSR, the crisis of the United Europe project, of which France is an important subject, and the emergence of China as a superpower in the future. Over the past thirty years, the problem of reception of the past has become an important research area of historical science, which continues to be updated with new research, including on the era of Napoleon.

Artyukh G. Y. Napoleon and Antiquity: Views of Modern Historians // HISTORY AND MODERN PERSPECTIVES. 2025. Vol. 7. № 1. P. 202-206. (in Russ.) DOI: 10.33693/2658-4654-2025-7-1-202-206. EDN: MEBXHG

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Napoleon, antiquity, reception, symbolism of power, historiography..