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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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Grant for a publication > “Joseph-Marie Portalis. Diplomate, magistrat et législateur”
Joseph-Marie Portalis (son of the famous Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, who co-authored the Napoleonic Code) was a leading historical figure. With no less than eight political oaths to his name (in the same league as Talleyrand or Fouché), Portalis’s life spanned a period of great social, economic, technological, political and legal upheavals both in France and Europe, from […]
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Obituary > Yves Vander Cruysen (1963-2020)
Our friend Yves Vander Cruysen died last Tuesday, a victim of Covid-19, after five weeks in hospital. For more than thirty years he had been one of the leaders of the political and cultural life of the Commune of Waterloo and its region, of which he was one of the main elected representatives. His achievements […]
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Winners of the Fondation Napoléon 2020 History Prizes and Study grants
The Board of Directors of the Fondation Napoléon having validated on 11 December 2019 the modification of the History Prize regulations, two Prizes are now awarded, namely a Grand Prix (5,000 euros) and a Jury Prize (3,500 euros). Each year, up to eight study grants, each worth 7,500 euros, are awarded to PhD students preparing a thesis […]
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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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