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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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Musée > Élisabeth Caude, new director of the national museums of the châteaux de Malmaison and Bois-Préau, and the napoleonic and african museums on the île d’Aix and the Maison Bonaparte at Ajaccio.
Following the decree of 27 October 2020, Elisabeth Caude has been appointed director of four French national museums, namely: the National Museum of the Chateaux of Malmaison and of Bois-Préau; the Napoleonic and African museums on the island of Aix and the museum of the Bonaparte house in Ajaccio (Corsica). Archivist-palaeographer and general heritage curator, […]
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Work in Progress > The restoration of the Napoleonic monuments at Les Invalides
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 […]
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Discover the masterpieces of the Fondation Napoléon Collection
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 […]
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Fondation Napoléon > Patronage grants awarded in 2020
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 […]
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France, an indivisible, secular, and democratic Republic
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 […]
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