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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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Memorial services for Napoleon Bonaparte
Organised by the Gouverneur militaire de Paris, le Gouverneur des Invalides and the Imperial Family, the annual mass in memory of the first Emperor Napoleon and of soldiers who died for France will take place on 5 May at the Cathedral Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris at 18h30, presided by HIH the Prince Napoléon and General Jean-Louis […]
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Napoleon and Paris: dream of a capital
This exhibition at the Musée Carnavelet entitled ‘Napoleon and Paris: The Dreams of a Capital’, part of the ‘Napoleon season’, is to last five months. From his time as general, ordering the cannon fire at Saint-Roch in 1795, his coronation in Notre-Dame in 1804, and finally his abdication at the Élysée Palace in 1815, Paris […]
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Thierry Lentz, director of the Fondation Napoléon, is made Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
On 30 March 2015, Professor Jean Tulard of the Institut presented Thierry Lentz, the Fondation Napoléon’s director, with the medal of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. The ceremony was held at the Museum of the Legion of Honour in the presence of numerous personalities, including General Georgelin, the Grand Chancelier de la Légion d’honneur, the […]
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Annual Report 2014
The Fondation Napoléon annual report for 2014 (link in French) surveys the institution’s activities and results, in accordance with its the aims of its mission statement: availability of a public library and digital library provision of information on the two Empires online at napoleon.org and in the Napoleonica archives publication of the academic review Napoleonica.La Revue organisation of […]
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Cercle d’études: Spring 2015 programme
The Spring 2015 programme (in French) for the Cercle d’études is now available online. The first session will take place on 6 May. Patrice Guennifey, who won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon in 2013 for his Bonaparte, published by Gallimard, will be presenting on ‘Bonaparte and the French Revolution’. The talks take place at […]
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