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Board of Trustees > Jean-François Hébert, new member representing the French Minister for Culture
Jean-François Hébert has been appointed an ex officio member, representing the French Ministry of Culture on the Board of Trustees of the Fondation Napoléon, replacing Philippe Belaval, who has been called away to other duties. Jean-François Hébert has a degree in public law and is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and […]
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The General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte: all the letters are now available on Napoleonica les archives !
All of Napoleon Bonaparte’s General Correspondence is now online at Napoleonica les archives, from his first letter to Joseph Fesch on 5 July 1784 to his last letter dated 5 May 1821, in which he dictated to Montholon the announcement of his own death to Governor Sir Hudson Lowe. There are now more than 40,500 […]
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Fondation Napoléon History Prizes and Research Grants 2023
The Fondation Napoléon 2023 prizes and scholarships were awarded on 6 December at the “Hôtel de Sully” in Paris, the headquarters of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux since 1967. This year’s prize-winning authors were: • Grand Prix 2023 > Jean-François BRUN, La Grande Armée. Analyse d’une machine de guerre [La Grande Armée: Analysis of a war […]
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Napoleonica the journal n°4 is out now!
The latest issue of Napoleonica the journal is now available on Cairn, free to consult, download or you can buy a print copy for the 7 €. The theme of this issue is the Camp de Boulogne. Contents: • Editorial, by Peter Hicks • From Pas-de-Calais to England: the cartographical arsenal of the imperial state secretariat, by Cécile Robin • Building […]
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A collaboration between the Fondation Napoléon and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca: project to digitise Élisa Bonaparte’s letters for the Napoleonica archives website
On Wednesday 23 August, 2023 in Lucca, Italy, Peter Hicks, international affairs manager at the Fondation Napoléon, and Roberta Martinelli, president of the association “Napoleon and Elisa: from Paris to Tuscany”, met Franco Mungai, manager at the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, to prepare the digitisation of a collection of 233 letters by Elisa […]
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