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Research Grants 2015: the winners
FIRST EMPIRE RESEARCH GRANTS • Marjorie ALAPHILIPPE, Marie-Félix Faulcon (1758-1843): Un littérateur poitevin en Révolution. PhD in History, supervised by Professors Frédéric CHAUVARD (University of Poitiers) and Pierre SERNA (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne). • Dorothée LANNO, Les scènes de l’intimité domestiques dans les arts figurés en France (1780-1815). PhD in History, supervised by Professor Martial GUEDRON (University of […]
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History Prize Winners 2015
On 9 November, 2015, the Fondation Napoléon Grand Prix Jury selected the following winners: First Empire Prize Franck FAVIER, Berthier, l’ombre de Napoléon, Paris, Editions Perrin Second Empire Prize Viviane DELPECH, Abbadia, le monument idéal d’Antoine Abbadie, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes Jury Prize Hervé DUMONT, Napoléon. L’épopée en 1000 films, Lausanne, Ides et Calendes […]
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History Prize 2015 : the candidates
On the 9 November, the Jury of the Fondation Napoléon Prize will choose the 2015 prize-winners from the following books: Consulate – First Empire – Caroline Bonaparte. Sœur d’Empereur et reine de Naples, by Florence de Baudus, Perrin – Lettres d’un Roi. Correspondance du Maréchal Murat, by Louis-Sampion Bouglione, Les éditions du Cirque – La […]
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New management for the French Domains of St Helena
On 14 October 2015 in the Generals’ Wing at Longwood House, two important contracts were signed, thereby completing the work achieved by the appeal “Saving Napoleon’s House on St Helena”. The first of these – jointly signed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Ministry of International Development (MAEDI), the Government of St. […]
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Napoleonica.La Revue : n° 22 / 1814, the year it all changed
Issue number 22 of Napoleonica.La Revue is the publication of the proceedings of the first study day of the “ Chaire Napoléon” (created by the Fondation Napoleon and the Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieurs) which took place on 4 December 2014 at La Roche-sur-Yon (in France). The subject was “1814, the year it all changed”: – Jean-Philippe Rey, Volonté, […]
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