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Renewal of the cooperation agreement between the Fondation Napoléon and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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 […]
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Publication of Volume XIII of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Ier
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.
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Michel Dancoisne-Martineau is awarded the Légion d’Honneur
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 […]
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Partnership Archives Nationales: digitalised minutes of Napoleon’s letters online
From 1 September 2016, all the minutes of the letters written by the First Consul and Emperor, that are today preserved in the archives of the Secretariat of State (AF / IV / 861-908), are available to the public on the website of the Archives Nationales. This considerable mass of papers, transferred to the Archives […]
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Terrorist attack in Nice, (14 July 2016): Defiant mourning
This editorial was published in our Newsletter n. 812, on 22 July 2016. It was written by Thierry Lentz, Director of the Fondation Napoléon, after the attack on 14 July 2016 in Nice, France. For the third time in a year and a half, the Tricolour flag on the facade of the Fondation Napoléon is at half mast. […]
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