Frédéric Bey

Frédéric Bey

Frédéric Bey
Culloden Battlefield, Scotland
August 2007
Born (1961-04-20) 20 April 1961
Nationality France
Occupation Military history, writer

Frédéric Bey, born 20 April 1961 at Issy-les-Moulineaux in France, is a designer of wargames and the author of books and articles on the subject of military history.

Biography

Frédéric Bey has done advanced studies on commerce and history. The wargames which he has designed cover ancient, medieval and Napoleonic military history. They have been published in Casus Belli and Vae Victis magazines as well as in several American magazines, such as C3i.

He is the organizer of the Trophée du Bicentenaire (Bicentennial Trophy), an annual international competition for wargaming whose objective is to commemorate the bicentennial of great victories of Napoleon.

A specialist in Napoleonic and Roman history, Bey is the author of a large number of articles on strategy in the ancient world and on the Napoleonic Wars which have appeared in Guerres et Histoire, Histoires de France, La Revue Napoléon, Prétorien, Traditions and Against the Odds magazines.

He has given many conferences on military history at the château de Vincennes under the auspices of the Centre d'Etudes d'Histoire de la Défense (CEHD), and has also been interviewed on France Inter (2000 Years of History) on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Battle of Austerlitz and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris in connection with a day celebrating Napoléon and Ireland.

An enthusiast of the Empire and strategy, Bey has published three books on the battles of Austerlitz, Jena, and Friedland for Quatuor Editions.

Publications

Books
Articles

Wargames

Frédéric Bey has designed more than 50 wargames:

Collaborations:

  1. 1 2 3 4 with Marc Brandsma
  2. with Sylvain Fereira
  3. with Nicolas Stratigos
  4. with Jean-Philippe Gury

References

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