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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.
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.
On 30 March 2015, Professor Jean Tulard of the Institut presented Thierry Lentz, the Fondation Napoléon’s director, with the medal of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. The ceremony was held at the Museum of the Legion of Honour in the presence of numerous personalities, including General Georgelin, the Grand Chancelier de la Légion d’honneur, the […]
The Fondation Napoléon annual report for 2014 (link in French) surveys the institution’s activities and results, in accordance with its the aims of its mission statement: availability of a public library and digital library provision of information on the two Empires online at napoleon.org and in the Napoleonica archives publication of the academic review Napoleonica.La Revue organisation of […]
The Spring 2015 programme (in French) for the Cercle d’études is now available online. The first session will take place on 6 May. Patrice Guennifey, who won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon in 2013 for his Bonaparte, published by Gallimard, will be presenting on ‘Bonaparte and the French Revolution’. The talks take place at […]
Appointment of new trustees. The make-up of the Board of Trustees has changed slightly. Whilst nothing has altered in terms of the Souvenir Napoléonien, represented by Guy Carrieu and Jacques Macé, the Board has appointed General Robert Bresse, president of the Fondation de la France Libre and former director of the Musée de l’Armée, to replace Bernard Chevallier, who […]