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The Fondation Napoléon is a registered charity committed to the encouragement of the study of and interest in the history of the First and Second Empires, and the preservation of Napoleonic heritage.
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Concerts “Triomphe(s) de Napoléon” > the “Dirge” composed for Napoleon’s funeral on St Helena in 1821 played for the first time in 200 years
On 5 October 2021, probably for the first time in 200 years, the music that accompanied the Emperor’s coffin to his tomb on 9 May 1821 was resurrected. It had been arranged for brass and percussion by Peter Hicks and was performed by musicians from the French Military ‘Garde Républicaine’ band in the Cathedral […]
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Les Olympiades de la Jeunesse (Young People’s ‘Olympics’) for the centenary of the Société des membres de la Légion d’honneur (SMLH)
On 26 September 2021, more than a thousand young people and their guides gathered in the central “Cour d’Honneur” courtyard of the Hôtel National des Invalides (Paris 7th) to take part in the Young People’s ‘Olympics’, organised by the Société des Membres de la Légion d’Honneur [SMLH, Society of Members of the Légion of d’Honneur] […]
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Fondation Napoléon, partner of the association “Amis de l’Hôtel de Brienne” (Friends of the Hôtel de Brienne)
The Association des Amis de l’Hôtel de Brienne [Friends of the Hôtel de Brienne], chaired by Jean-Yves Le Drian (formerly French Minister of Defence and currently Minister of Foreign Affairs), is a non-profit whose aim is to preserve and enhance this important place, the Hôtel de Brienne, an 18th-century townhouse in Paris’s 7th arrondissement which was […]
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Obituary > Dr Jacques Palombo (1939-2021)
On 16 September, Dr Jacques Palombo, a trustee of the Fondation Napoléon, suddenly passed away. As a long-time activist in the associative world, he had been a member of the Board of Trustees and the Standing Committee of the Souvenir Napoléonien for some fifteen years. They appointed him as one of its representatives on the […]
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Obituary > Dr Lemaire (1930-2021)
Jean-François Lemaire died on 3 September at the age of 92. This student and friend of Jean Tulard was a medical doctor and had a Phd in history. In addition to his activities as a medical expert, he lectured on medicine in the 19th century at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes from 1989 to 2001. He […]
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