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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.
Napoleon had three iconic items of clothing, his hat, his great coat, and his ‘green’ Cavalry Chasseur Colonel’s uniform. This latter was what he most frequently wore during the day, and not surprisingly, he is best known for it. Two very famous paintings held today in Washington and Versailles, that is to say, respectively, David’s […]
Mark Capes, Governor of St Helena, accompanied by his wife Tamara and Michel Dancoisne-Martineau (Honorary Consul of the French Domains of St Helena), spent a week in France, for the inauguration of the exhibition “Napoleon on St Helena” of which the Fondation Napoléon is a partner. They were officially received at the French Foreign […]
The Fondation Napoléon’s annual report 2015 (in French) traces its activity and the results of its main missions: making a library and a digital library available which are open to the public, sharing the history of the two Empires via our websites, napoleon.org and napoleonica les archives, publishing a scientific review online, Napoleonica.La revue, organising conference cycles […]
The new Spring program for the Napoleon Foundation’s “Cercle d’Etudes” lecture series which opens on 3 May 2016, is now available online here (in French).
The Fondation Napoléon is very sad to announce the death of Alain Decaux. This great popular French historian was not only a member of the Académie Française and a well-known media figure, but also the only person ever to have won a Fondation Napoléon history prize twice: once with Robert Hossein in 2002 for the stage […]