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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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Visit of a governor of St Helena to France
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 […]
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Annual report 2015
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 […]
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“Cercle d’études” lecture series : Spring Programme 2016
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).
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Death of Alain Decaux
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 […]
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Partnership with the Museums of Sens (France)
On Monday 21 March, 2016 an agreement was signed between the Fondation Napoléon and the city of Sens (France) in the presence of Victor-Andre Masséna, Prince d’Essling (President of the Fondation Napoleon), Marie-Louise Fort (member of parliament for the third district of the Yonne and Mayor of Sens), and Bernard Ethuin-Coffinet (deputy mayor of Sens […]
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