Laurent Veglio
Country: France
Title in the original language: Italie napoléonienne
Title translated into English: Napoleonic Italy
Type: website
Url: https://italienapoleonienne.altervista.org
Short Description: This website is a contribution to the study of the organization of the postal service in Italy during the revolutionary and imperial periods: it examines the integration of the states that were successively annexed by France (Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, and later the Papal States) and the relations maintained with the Kingdoms of Italy and Naples. It also presents the institutions specific to these new departments, how the Army Postal Service operated, and the implementation of legislation regarding postal exemptions and countersignatures. There can be no history of the postal service without precise references. That is why the site opens with a first chapter titled RESOURCES: it provides links for direct access to available official regulatory texts (which, unfortunately, are sometimes incomplete), as well as reliable bibliographic references for further exploration of the various topics covered. Tracing the route of a letter from that era using Via Michelin or Google Maps is not always effective or relevant; therefore, you will find links to postal maps, notably those available on the BnF’s Gallica website