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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.
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.
In May last year, the Fondation Napoléon launched an appeal with the Musée de l’Armée, to raise the 800,000 euros needed to clean and restore Napoleon’s tomb and the other napoleonic monuments including those dedicated to his brothers Joseph and Jérôme at the Hôtel National des Invalides. Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the public […]
The Fondation Napoléon’s collection, with more than a thousand items, is made up for the most part of works bequeathed by Martial Lapeyre (1904-1984), a famous industrialist with a keen interest in history and a great lover of art. Since 1990, Lapeyre’s original collection has been regularly enriched, with a focus on rare objects, masterpieces […]
The Board of Trustees of the Fondation Napoléon decided to grant financial support for the following projects in 2020: The publication of Le royaume de Westphalie et le système continental 1807-1813 (to be published); The publication of Napoléon et Jésus: création d’un messie (to be published); Restoration and new display of the Emperor’s barge in Brest; The […]
On Friday 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was beheaded in a street in Eragny, near Conflans-Saint-Honorine [in the north-west suburbs of Paris] by an Islamist terrorist. A few days earlier, his choice of teaching civic education had been criticised by some parents, some demanding his dismissal, in circumstances that are […]
A key figure in the Napoleonic world passed away recently, namely Gérard Moyaux, who had been a trustee of the Fondation Napoléon since 2005. Mr Moyaux was a remarkable citizen of the French Republic, a veteran of Algeria and a former executive of France-Telecom. He had been a member of the Souvenir Napoléonien since 1974 […]