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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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Symposium “Napoleon and the economy. Currency, crises and trade during the First Empire”
The Banque de France and the Fondation Napoléon is organizing a symposium called “Napoleon and the economy. Currency, crises and trade under the First Empire”, with the support of the Souvenir Napoléonien and in partnership with the Chaire Napoléon of the Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieures at La Roche-sur-Yon. It will take place on 23 and 24 March 2016, […]
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Exhibition “Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène”: a glimpse behind the scenes
On 6 April a major new exhibition opens at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris: “Napoleon at St Helena. The conquest of memory“. Two months before the opening, preparations are well underway… On Friday 8 January two works from the collection of the Fondation Napoléon, the waistcoat and breeches worn by Napoleon on St Helena were […]
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Napoleonica.La Revue : n° 23 / Religion and Beliefs
Number 23 of Napoleonica.La Revue includes the following articles : – Roland Minnerath, Le concordat de Bonaparte et son actualité; – François Bœspflug, Napoléon et Dieu. Iconographie comparée; – Vincent Petit, Saint Napoléon, un saint pour la nation. Contribution à l’imaginaire politique français; – Giulia Delogu, “Poetic Portraits”: From the Ideal Freemason to the Cult of Napoleon. Read number […]
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