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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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2020: a new year message from a surprise guest…
HE’s back! Or rather, Frank Samson is back, Napoleon I’s dead ringer, who played the Emperor with uncanny precision in most of the bicentennaries between 2005 and 2015. He has very kindly agreed to make one more come-back, so as to convey a new year message on behalf of the Fondation Napoléon. Video details: – […]
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Collection: the bust of Napoleon I returns to the Fondation Napoléon after the loan to the CMN for the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (December 2018 to January 2019)
The bust of Napoleon I (after Chaudet, inv. 94), loaned by the Fondation Napoléon to the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), is back in the Foundation’s collection. From 10 December 2018 it was exhibited at the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile during the repair of another copy of the bust held there which had been damaged […]
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Fondation Napoléon Cercle d’études: winter programme 2020
The 2020 winter programme for the Fondation Napoléon Cercle d’études begins on Tuesday 14 January, 2020, at 6pm at the Fondation Napoléon in Paris, in our Salle Gourgaud lecture theatre, with a talk/book signing by Florence de Baudus on “the Princess Pauline Borghèse: a Bonaparte as famous as she is poorly understood”. Bookings open on […]
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Board of Trustees > Arnaud Teyssier, new trustee
Arnaud Teyssier has been appointed representative of the French Ministère de l’Intérieur on the Board of Trustees of the Fondation Napoléon as a replacement for the Prefect Jean-Michel Mehnert, who passed away on 20 June 2019. Arnaud Teyssier was born on 22 December 1958, and studied at the prestigious institutions, ENS Ulm and l’ENA. He […]
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Partnership > Signing of a Cooperation Agreement with French Service Historique de la Défense
On 16 December, 2019, Pierre Laugeay, Director General and Head of the Service Historique de la Défense (SHD), and Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon, signed an agreement of cooperation between the two institutions. Building on previous cooperation agreements signed over the years, in particular that regarding the archival work for the […]
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