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Fondation Napoléon > New members and re-nominations to the Board of Directors
General Robert Bresse and Count Nicolas Walewski have been reappointed for a further six-year term to the Board of Directors of the Fondation Napoleon (by a postal vote on Monday 11 January 2021), among other qualified personalities. In addition, the Souvenir Napoléonien has appointed three new representatives as members of the aforementioned board, namely: – Marina […]
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Obituary > Susan Conner (1947-2020)
We are very sad to announce that Dr Susan Conner, scholar of Napoleon and friend of the Fondation Napoléon, died of throat cancer on 28 November 2020. She was born and reared in Madison, Wisconsin until 1959. Graduating from Armstrong State College (Georgia), magna cum laude, in 1969, she began her master’s and doctoral studies in […]
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Napoleon in the movies > Hervé Dumont puts online his entire “Napoleon – L’épopée en 1 000 films” (Fondation Napoléon prize-winner in 2015)
In 2015, the Jury of the Prizes and Grants of the Fondation Napoléon awarded the Prix du Jury to Hervé Dumont, former director of the Lausanne Film Library and film historian, for his work presenting and analysing films devoted to Napoleon I and his reign, Napoleon. L’épopée en 1000 films [Napoleon, the saga in 1,000 films] […]
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President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (1926-2020) and the Napoleonic world
Here is not the place to recite the political career of President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (link in French). That has been done abundantly by the printed and digital press in France and elsewhere. We would simply like to highlight a few of the, sometimes surprising, links he had with the Napoleonic world. In fact, Valéry […]
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Fondation Napoléon > Napoleonica® Les Archives: A new version of the website napoleonica.org
In celebration of its twentieth birthday, the Napoleonica® Les Archives project, launched in 2000, now has a brand-new website design, created with the company, Logilab. The website napoleonica.org makes available original First and Second Empire archival material as part of partnership agreements between the Fondation Napoléon (in the role of distributer) and the holders of […]
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