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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.
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.
On 16 November, a mass was celebrated in the Church of Ognissanti in Florence, on the occasion of the opening to the public of the funerary chapel of Caroline Murat, recently restored. The ceremony was attended by Isabelle Mallez (Honorary Consul of France), HRH Prince Murat, members of the Murat family, Presidents of the Napoleonic Souvenir […]
On 8 November 2016, the jury for the Fondation Napoléon History Prizes selected the following publications : First Empire Prize Michel VERGÉ-FRANCESCHI, Pozzo di Borgo. L’ennemi juré de Napoléon, Paris, Payot Jury Prize Jean-Paul KAUFFMANN, Outre-Terre, Paris, Éditions des Équateurs Extraordinary Jury Prize Marie-Hélène BAYLAC, Hortense de Beauharnais, Paris, Perrin Presentation (in English) of the award-winning books. Discover also the […]
On 14 November 2016, Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon, and Laurence Engel, President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), signed the renewal of the agreement of cooperation in documentary and digital affairs initiated in 2014. The cooperation agreement concerns the following joint action, namely: the mutual development and enhancement of […]
This thirteenth volume of the General Correspondance of Napoleon Bonaparte, directed by Pierre Branda, covers the first half of 1813 and includes 2,925 commented letters, 5 maps, a commented chronology, two indexes. Further information and summary (in English) Introduction by Pierre Branda (translated into English) Volume XIII will be available in bookstores from November 23, 2016.
On Wednesday 12 October, 2016, at the Quai d’Orsay, in Paris, Christian Masset, General Secretary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented Michel Dancoisne-Martineau, Director of the French Domaines of St Helena, with the insignia of the “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” in a small intimate ceremony, in the presence of, among others, the HIH […]