Jacques Jourquin

Jacques Jourquin
Jacques Jourquin
Born	28 October 1935 La Madeleine, France
Died	14 November 2021 Paris, France
Alma mater	HEC Paris Sciences Po
Occupation(s)	Publisher writer and historian

Jacques Jourquin (October 28, 1935, in La Madeleine – November 14, 2021, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris) is a French publisher, writer and historian, specialist in Napoleonic studies. He notably headed Éditions Tallandier during the 1980s.

Biography

A graduate of HEC Paris (1959) and a degree in law and economics (1960), he continued his studies at Sciences Po, Public Service section (1960–1961), studies interrupted by the service military during the Algerian War.

He decided in the midst of his professional activity to take a master's degree in history (1977), before graduating from the École pratique des hautes études for his thesis “Souvenirs du commandant Parquin, édition critique” (1979).

In 1963, Jacques Jourquin joined Éditions Tallandier, at the time a subsidiary of Hachette, and successively became deputy sales director (1963–1967), sales director (1967–1973), director (1974–1981), then CEO (August 5, 1981), appointed to head the company by Jacques Marchandise-Franquet, former president of Hachette and president of Tallandier, whom he succeeded.

At Tallandier, Jacques Jourquin founded, among others, the Bibliothèque napoléonienne collection (1977).

He bought Tallandier from the Hachette group with a partner (December 1981), Hachette having decided to restructure all of its departments.

He was also director of the Historia magazine (August 1981), owned by the publishing house at that time, and launched a revised version of the thematic bimonthly Historia Special (1984). He then sold the company to an investment fund while retaining his functions (1990) and before his departure initiated the purchase of Historama-Histoire magazine and its merger with Historia.

Jacques Jourquin left the presidency of Tallandier in July 1992 and the management of Historia in January 1993, after thirty years of activity in the service of this publishing house.

From 1993, he held positions in the specialized press as director-editor-in-chief of the magazine of the Souvenir napoléonien (until 2005) and as a voluntary delegated editor (1994–2001) then manager-director (2001–2014) of the magazine Vieilles Maisons Françaises.

At the same time, he directed again the Bibliothèque napoléonienne collection on behalf of Éditions Tallandier (2002–2009).

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Jacques Jourquin has devoted himself to research and the publication of historical works on the civil and military personnel of the First Empire.

His first critical edition of Souvenirs du commandant Parquin (1979, new ed. 2003) and his Dictionnaire des maréchaux du Premier Empire (1986, 5th ed. 2001) are among his best-known books.

Jourquin is one of the specialists in the memoirs of Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, known as the Mamluk Ali: valet, copyist and librarian of Napoleon in Sainte-Hélène, and has devoted four volumes to the subject based on the original manuscripts (2003, 2012, 2015, 2021).

He has hosted numerous symposia and conferences and published dozens of articles. The Académie Française and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques have awarded his works six times (1976, 1980, 1982, 1986, 2000, 2005).

His study, La dernière passion de Napoléon : la bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène, was published in September 2021 by Passés/Composés and concludes a work of around thirty works, alone or in collaboration.

Jacques Jourquin was vice-president of the Institut Napoléon (since 2005) and member of the jury for the history prizes of the Fondation Napoléon (since 2002).

He was decorated Commander of the National Order of Merit (1995) and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2007) by French Ministry of Culture, then Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (2014) by French Ministry of Education, order created by Napoleon.

Publications

Study and library catalogs

• 2001-2004: History of a library. Volume 1: Three catalogs of books from the André Jourquin collections (1903-1997); preceded by reflections on the library of a lover of 20th century (2001). Volume 2: Fourth catalog; preceded by reflections on the strange destiny of a regionalist collection (2004), JAS éditions ISBN 2-911090-07-1, 2-911090-08-X
• 2021: Napoleon's last passion: the library of Sainte-Hélène (study), from the archives of Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, known as the Mamluk Ali, Éditions Passés/Composés ISBN 978 -2379337321

Prosopographical dictionaries

• 1986: Dictionary of the marshals of the First Empire, dict. analytical, statistical and comparative of the twenty-six marshals, editions Tallandier; then ed. Christian / JAS, 2001 ISBN 978-2911090066
• 2008: The marshals of the Great War (1914-1918), comparative dictionary and cross-portraits, Éditions Soteca ISBN 978-2916385174

Editions of memoirs

• 1973: Memoirs of General Rapp, Napoleon's first aide-de-camp, written by himself and published by his family. Notice on the life of General Rapp and warning (under the name of Gabriel Dervaux), éditions de Troie, Geneva
• 1979: Memories of Commandant Parquin (1803-1814). First critical edition based on the original text, followed by a biography of Commandant Parquin (1815–1845). Appendices, bibliography and annexes, Tallandier ISBN 2-235-00795-3
• 1980: Travels in Northern America in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782 of the Marquis François Jean de Chastellux. Establishment and clarifications, Tallandier ISBN 978-2235009300
• 1982: Memoires (1812-1813) of Marshall Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 2 vols., T1. Russian Campaign; T2. Saxon Campaign. Presentation and supplements, Rémanences éditions ISBN 2-904380-00-0
• 1984: Journal (1792-1830) of Capitaine François known as “the dromedary of Egypt”, 2 vols., T1. 1792–1802; T2. 1803–1830. Critical introduction and appendices, Tallandier ISBN 2-235-01502-6, 2-235-01503-4
• 1992: Memoires (1792-1815) of the artillery General Baron Boulard. Critical introduction and appendices, Tallandier ISBN 978-2235020916
• 2003: Unpublished journal of Return from the ashes by Mamluk Ali (1840). Journey to Saint Helena in 1840 with letters from Ali to his wife; preceded by the story of the Return of Saint Helena in 1821. Deciphering, annotations and presentation of the manuscripts, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847341225
• 2004: Campaign memories of Sergeant Faucheur, quartermaster in the Grande Armée. Establishment and foreword, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847341676
• 2004: Memories of a courtesan of the Grande Armée (1792-1815) by Ida Saint-Elme. Establishment and critical introduction, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847341706
• 2004: We were at Austerlitz: December 2, 1805, memories and memories of the combatants. Warning, foreword and annexes, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847342321
• 2007: War memories (1812-1815) of Lieutenant Martin. Foreword, parts, appendices and epilogue, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847344530
• 2012: Memories of the Mameluke Ali, largely unpublished, on the Russian campaign in 1812. Deciphering, establishment, presentation and annotation of manuscripts, coll. from the Institut Napoléon No. 7, SPM ISBN 978-2901952961
• 2015: Largely unpublished memories of Mameluke Ali (1813-1815). Deciphering, establishment, presentation and annotation of manuscripts, coll. from the Institut Napoléon No. 13, SPM ISBN 978-2917232378

Albums and periodicals (as sole author)

• 2004: Le Marshal Ney (1769-1815), Napoléon 1er, special issue magazine No. 1, Soteca
• 2007: Masséna, the enigmatic marshal, Napoléon 1er magazine No. 44, Soteca
• 2011: Morny the flamboyant (1811-1865), album, Soteca ISBN 978-2916385730
• 2012: Napoleon's Marshals, album, Soteca ISBN 978-2916385938

Others

Story

• 1962: Gallien or the acceptance of being (under the name of Jacques Louvière), éditions du Seuil

Collection of poems

• 1974: They are all called Martin, illustrations by Jacques Willaumez, editions Jean-Claude Lattès

In collaboration

Historical works

• 1987: Dictionnaire Napoléon, Jean Tulard (dir.), Fayard ISBN 978-2213020358
• 1995: Dictionary of the Second Empire, Jean Tulard (dir.), Fayard ISBN 978-2213592817
• 1999: The ABCs of Napoleon and the Empire, Jean Tulard (dir.), éditions Flammarion ISBN 978-2080125835
• 2002: Napoleon's itinerary day by day (1769-1821), Jean Tulard (dir.) and Louis Garros. New ed. revised and corrected by Jean Tulard and Jacques Jourquin, Tallandier ISBN 978-2847340167
• 2004: Dictionary of wars and battles in the history of France, Jacques Garnier (dir.), éditions Perrin ISBN 978-2262008291
• 2005: Sainte-Hélène, island of memory, Bernard Chevallier, Michel Dancoisne-Martineau and Thierry Lentz (dir.), Fayard ISBN 978-2213626451
• 2012: 1812, the Russian campaign, Marie-Pierre Rey and Thierry Lentz (dir.), Perrin ISBN 978-2262040727

Exhibition catalogs

• 1999: Napoléon manager in Napoléon Bonaparte in Saint-Cloud: from the coup d'état of Brumaire to the end of the Empire, Sophie de Juvigny (dir. ) and collective. Exhibition from November 10, 1999, to January 30, 2000, at the Musée municipal de Saint-Cloud ASIN B000WZ29HK
• 2003: The strange mameluck Ali in In the service of Napoleon in Sainte-Hélène: Marchand and Ali, Alain Cattagni, Micheline Durand, Lydwine Saulnier-Pernuit (dir.) and collective. Exhibition from March 30 to September 29, 2003, at the musée de Sens / museum of art and history of Auxerre ISBN 978-2909418193
• 2004: Childhood and training of Napoleon Bonaparte in Napoléon Bonaparte and the Vendée department, Christophe Vital (dir.) and collective. Exhibition from 1 May to 17 October 2004 at Logis de la Chabotterie in Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon and from 18 May} } to October 17, 2004, at the Hôtel du Département in La Roche-sur-Yon, Conservation of Vendée museums / Somogy Éditions d 'art ISBN 978-2850567643
• 2004: Clothes, Reliquaries, Complete works, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène in Treasures of the Napoleon Foundation: in the privacy of the Imperial Court , Thierry Lentz (dir.) and collective. Exhibition from September 23, 2004, to April 3, 2005, at the Jacquemart-André museum, Éditions Nouveau Monde ISBN 9782847360806
• 2005: Napoleon's countryside libraries in Napoleon in the countryside, collective. Exhibition from June 15 to December 31, 2005, at the Arc-de-Triomphe, Editions du Patrimoine ISBN 978-2858228720
• 2016: Writing in Saint Helena in Napoleon in Saint Helena: the conquest of memory, Nathalie Bailleux (dir.) and collective. Exhibition from April 6 to July 24, 2016, at the Musée de l'Armée (Paris), 304 p., éditions Gallimard / Army Museum ISBN 978-2070178742
• 2021: The impossible execution of the legacy of Napoleon's books to his son in Napoléon n'est plus, Boris Bourget (dir.), Jean Tulard (preface) and collective. Exhibition co-organized by the Fondation Napoléon from May 19 to October 31, 2021, at the Musée de l'Armée, éditions Gallimard / Musée de l'Armée ISBN 978-2072931604

Albums and special magazines

Non-exhaustive: Jacques Jourquin has published numerous articles.

• 2011: Napoléon Bonaparte, the secrets of a legend, Franz-Olivier Giesbert (dir.) and collective, Le Point, special issue No. 8, coll. Great Biographies ASIN B0078L8M9A
• 2013: 1813. France facing Europe, Alain Pigeard (dir.), Revue du Souvenir Napoléonien, special issue No. 6
• 2015: Napoleon, the absolute hero (album), Philippe Bidalon (dir.) and collective, L'Express, special issue No. 5 ISBN 978- 2824400488

Prefaces, warnings, foreword

• 1983: Jean-Baptiste Pérès, History of the universal monarchy: Napoleon and the conquest of the world, 1812-1832 (Napoleon apocryphal); followed by As what Napoleon never existed (warning), Tallandier ISBN 978-2235015301
• 1983-1984: Memories and campaigns of baron Larrey (1786-1811), 5 vols. (foreword), Rémanences éditions
• 1985: Memoirs of Marchand, first valet and executor of Napoleon, 2 vols. (foreword), Tallandier
• 1986: Journal of the campaigns of baron Percy, 2 vols. (foreword), Tallandier
• 1996: Arnaud de Maurepas & Antoine Boulant, The ministers and ministries of the Age of Enlightenment (1715-1789), study and dictionary (foreword), Christian / JAS ISBN 978-2911090004
• 1996: Ronald Zins, The marshals of Napoleon III: dictionary (preface), Horvath ISBN 978-2717108927
• 1999: Thierry Lentz, The Coup d'Etat of 18 Brumaire: the coups d'état of Napoleon Bonaparte (preface), Jean Picollec ISBN 978 -2864771630
• 2004: Jean de la Tour, Duroc (1772-1813) (preface), Éditions Nouveau Monde ISBN 978-2847360387
• 2005: Gilbert Martineau, Daily life on Saint Helena in the time of Napoleon (preface), Tallandier ISBN 978-2847341195
• 2008: Joël Aubailly, The ancestors of Napoleon III (preface), ed. Christian ISBN 978-2864960690
• 2009: René Reiss, Kellermann (preface), Tallandier ISBN 978-2847344684
• 2011: General Lejeune, Memoirs of empire T.3: From Valmy to Wagram and T. 4: In prison and at war (prefaces), Éditions Jacob-Duvernet ISBN 978-2847243703, 978-2847243697

Direction of work

• 1988: Gutenberg, from gold to lead, coll. The major typographic families, editions Jacques Damase ISBN 2-904632-18-2

Pseudonyms

J. Jourquin signed two books under a pseudonym: a story under the name of Jacques Louvière ("Gallien or the acceptance of being", 1962) and a critical edition under that of Gabriel Dervaux ("Mémoires du général Rapp", 1973).