Fondation Napoléon

International appeal for the restoration of Napoleonic monuments at the Hôtel National des Invalides For the bicentenary of Napoleon I’s death on 5 May 2021, the Musée de l’Armée and the Fondation Napoléon are joining forces to launch an international subscription to help restore, at the Hôtel National des Invalides, the monuments associated with the Emperor and his brothers Joseph, King of Naples and later of Spain, and Jerome, […]

Fondation Napoléon Cercle d’études: winter programme 2020

Collection: the bust of Napoleon I returns to the Fondation Napoléon after the loan to the CMN for the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (December 2018 to January 2019) The bust of Napoleon I (after Chaudet, inv. 94), loaned by the Fondation Napoléon to the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), is back in the Foundation’s collection. From 10 December 2018 it was exhibited at the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile during the repair of another copy of the bust held there which had been damaged […]

Partnership > Signing of a Cooperation Agreement with French Service Historique de la Défense On 16 December, 2019, Pierre Laugeay, Director General and Head of the Service Historique de la Défense (SHD), and Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon, signed an agreement of cooperation between the two institutions. Building on previous cooperation agreements signed over the years, in particular that regarding the archival work for the […]