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New management for the French Domains of St Helena

On 14 October 2015 in the Generals’ Wing at Longwood House, two important contracts were signed, thereby completing the work achieved by the appeal “Saving Napoleon’s House on St Helena”. The first of these – jointly signed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Ministry of International Development (MAEDI), the Government of St. […]

30 October 2015 More

Napoleonica.La Revue : n° 22 / 1814, the year it all changed

Issue number 22 of Napoleonica.La Revue is the publication of the proceedings of the first study day of the “ Chaire Napoléon” (created by the Fondation Napoleon and the Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieurs) which took place on 4 December 2014 at La Roche-sur-Yon (in France). The subject was “1814, the year it all changed”: – Jean-Philippe Rey, Volonté, […]

22 October 2015 More

Supported publications: Les mémoires de Mollien, ministre du Trésor public de Napoléon Ier

François-Nicolas Mollien (1758-1850) is not the best known of the great public servants of the Empire. And unjustly so, since the Minister of the Treasury (“ministre du Trésor public”) laid the foundations of the French public financial system as we know it today. As the manager of the “Caisse d’amortissement” from 29 November 1799, he […]

17 September 2015 More

Obituary: Francesco Dell’Orso, librarian at the Fondation Napoléon (2000-2001)

It is with deep sadness and a real sense of loss that we learned this week of the death of one of the first librarians of the Fondation Napoléon, Francesco dell’Orso. A renowned librarian in Italy and one of the pioneers in the adoption of digital systems for book cataloguing, he joined the Fondation team […]