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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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Fondation Napoléon > New Standing Committee of the Board of Directors
On Tuesday 16 March 2021, the standing committee of the Fondation Napoléon’s Board of Directors was re-elected, following the new appointments and reappointments of members decided at the board meeting last 11 January 2021. – Chairman of the standing committee: Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, (president of the Board of Directors) – Vice-Chairman: Olivier Fouquet (President […]
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Co-edition Perrin / Fondation Napoléon > publication of the St-Helena notebooks of Grand-Maréchal Bertrand, the last 500 days (1820-1821)
This is a crucial document in the reference edition that was lacking. These Notebooks based on the original manuscript, are presented and commented on by François Houdecek (in charge of special projects at the Fondation Napoléon). This work was published in the collection La Bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène, directed by Thierry Lentz, director of the Fondation […]
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Nomination : Marie-Christine Labourdette appointed head of the Etablissement public du château de Fontainebleau
Marie-Christine Labourdette, who had been President of the Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine since 2018, was officially appointed on 17 February 2021 to head the Établissement public du château de Fontainebleau, replacing Jean-François Hébert. She took up her post on 8 March. Her mission will be to continue the development of the Château de […]
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2021 Année Napoléon > Tribute to the Napoleonic soldiers who fought for the independence of Chile and Argentina
The annual ceremony commemorating the independence of Chile and Argentina on 4 February pays a special tribute, in this bicentenary year of Napoleon’s death, to the former soldiers of the Grande Armée who fought for these independences after the fall of the Empire. → Find out more about the events organised by the Bicentenary Chile-France […]
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Target reached (and surpassed) for the international appeal for the restoration of the Tomb of Napoleon and the Napoleonic monuments of the Invalides
In view of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I, on 5 May 2021, the Musée de l’Armée and the Fondation Napoléon joined forces to launch an international appeal to restore the places at the Invalides dedicated not only to the memory of the Emperor Napoleon but also to that of his brothers Joseph […]
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