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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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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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Obituary: Gérard Moyaux (1942-2020), a trustee of the Fondation Napoléon
A key figure in the Napoleonic world passed away recently, namely Gérard Moyaux, who had been a trustee of the Fondation Napoléon since 2005. Mr Moyaux was a remarkable citizen of the French Republic, a veteran of Algeria and a former executive of France-Telecom. He had been a member of the Souvenir Napoléonien since 1974 […]
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Conference > Napoléon III et l’économie: postponed to November 2021
Dear All, The second wave of the pandemic in France has forced us to postpone our international conference “Napoléon III et l’économie” planned for Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 November this year. The fact is, our partner for this event, the Banque de France, has had to reinforce its health and safety procedures. These new […]
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