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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.
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Obituary > Jacques Jourquin (1935-2021)
Writer, historian, publisher, entrepreneur and driving force within the Napoleonic world for half a century, Jacques Jourquin died on November 14th. His youthful looks (before his illness) belied his 86 years, and indeed given his tireless activity he could easily have been mistaken for someone in his mid-sixties…. It is difficult to summarise his career, […]
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Obituary > Donald D. Horward (1933-2021)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of the American historian and Chevallier de la Légion d’Honneur, Donald D. Horward. Don was a wide-ranging scholar of Napoleon and the French Revolution with a particular passion for the great French Marshal André Masséna – indeed he even founded a Masséna Society. His […]
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Concerts “Triomphe(s) de Napoléon” > the “Dirge” composed for Napoleon’s funeral on St Helena in 1821 played for the first time in 200 years
On 5 October 2021, probably for the first time in 200 years, the music that accompanied the Emperor’s coffin to his tomb on 9 May 1821 was resurrected. It had been arranged for brass and percussion by Peter Hicks and was performed by musicians from the French Military ‘Garde Républicaine’ band in the Cathedral […]
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Les Olympiades de la Jeunesse (Young People’s ‘Olympics’) for the centenary of the Société des membres de la Légion d’honneur (SMLH)
On 26 September 2021, more than a thousand young people and their guides gathered in the central “Cour d’Honneur” courtyard of the Hôtel National des Invalides (Paris 7th) to take part in the Young People’s ‘Olympics’, organised by the Société des Membres de la Légion d’Honneur [SMLH, Society of Members of the Légion of d’Honneur] […]
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Fondation Napoléon, partner of the association “Amis de l’Hôtel de Brienne” (Friends of the Hôtel de Brienne)
The Association des Amis de l’Hôtel de Brienne [Friends of the Hôtel de Brienne], chaired by Jean-Yves Le Drian (formerly French Minister of Defence and currently Minister of Foreign Affairs), is a non-profit whose aim is to preserve and enhance this important place, the Hôtel de Brienne, an 18th-century townhouse in Paris’s 7th arrondissement which was […]
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