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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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Cercle d’études Lectures at the Fondation Napoléon : Autumn Programme 2016
The next season of lectures at the Fondation Napoléon, will start on 13 September 2016. All the details can be found here.
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Napoleon and Paris at the Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Qc)
This exhibition at the Canadian Museum of History until January 8, 2017 presents nearly 250 documents which explore the relationship between the capital city of France and the Emperor. The exhibition is based around some of the exhibits which were included in the exhibition Napoléon et Paris which took place March-August 2015 at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris, France, produced in partnership with the […]
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“Terres d’Australie”: When Bonaparte and Britain explored the Australian coast
On Monday 13 June 2016 at 3pm there will be an exceptional talk given by Loïck Peyron, Patrick Llewellyn and Alizée Chasse in the Baron Gourgaud Room at the Fondation Napoléon in Paris, taking as its theme the title of their recent book: “Terres d’Australie: Quand Bonaparte et l’Angleterre explorent les côtes d’Australie”. To reserve […]
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