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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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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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