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Tribute to General Gudin at the Hôtel National des Invalides, 2 December 2021
On Thursday 2 December 2021 at 11am, General Gudin (César-Charles-Etienne, comte GUDIN DE LA SABLONNIÈRE (1768-1812), division general) was given military funeral honours at the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris in the presence of Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister Delegate to the French Minister of the Armed Forces, in charge of Remembrance and Veterans. Gudin was buried […]
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Obituary > Jacques Jourquin (1935-2021)
Writer, historian, publisher, entrepreneur and driving force within the Napoleonic world for half a century, Jacques Jourquin died on November 14th. His youthful looks (before his illness) belied his 86 years, and indeed given his tireless activity he could easily have been mistaken for someone in his mid-sixties…. It is difficult to summarise his career, […]
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Obituary > Donald D. Horward (1933-2021)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of the American historian and Chevallier de la Légion d’Honneur, Donald D. Horward. Don was a wide-ranging scholar of Napoleon and the French Revolution with a particular passion for the great French Marshal André Masséna – indeed he even founded a Masséna Society. His […]
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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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