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14/12/2023TalkNapoleonica® les conférences musicales > “the vaudevilles on 18 brumaire an VIII” by Paola ParazzoloPresentation The day after the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire, the theatrical world was in a hurry to celebrate Bonaparte with occasional couplets and impromptus that exalted the general, blackened the Jacobins and gleefully stigmatised the instability of the Directoire government. There were so many plays dealing with the “Journée de Saint-Cloud” that state censorship […]
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12/10/2023TalkNapoleonica® les conférences musicales > “Napoleonic Drums, a 20th century myth”, by Thierry BouzardPresentation From 1907 onwards, Napoleonic drums began to emerge as part of the imperial epic. With the development of the recording industry, they became very popular and became part of history. The origins of the myth lie in the meeting between Édouard Philippe and Charles Gourdin, drum major of the Republican Guard. The First World […]
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Object / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st EmpireSet of thirteen miniatures depicting part of the imperial family and important dignitaries of the First Empire.In the 19th century, the majority of famous artists were men. This was particularly true of miniature painters. The names of Isabey and Augustin are familiar to us. However, some women had genuine artistic careers, and Sophie Liénard (1801-1875) was undoubtedly one of them. -
Place, museum or monument / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st Empire, Restauration/RestorationThe Glauco Lombardi MuseumThe Museo Glauco Lombardi in Parma (Italy) is an ensemble of precious objects most of which belonging to the Duchess Maria Luigia and inherited by Giovanni Sanvitale through his grandmother, Albertina Montenuovo, daughter of the Duchess. It has subsequently been enlarged by many donations and… -
from 01/07/2023 to 03/09/2023ExhibitionNapoleon Playmobil® at Brienne-le-ChâteauThe exhibition will thrill the public and the most nostalgic among you will undoubtedly be plunged back into memories of your childhood. Through the marvellous world of Playmobil, visitors will be taken on a journey through the life of Napoleon all summer long, thanks to this toy that has been handed down through the generations. […]
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from 24/06/2023 to 02/10/2023ExhibitionPlon-Plon, A Bonaparte in red and goldAfter the exhibition devoted to Princess Mathilde in 2019, the Palais Fesch-musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio is focusing on another major figure in the world of the arts during the Second Empire, namely Prince Napoleon (1822-1891), son of King Jérôme, brother of the Princess and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III. Posterity has remembered him by […]
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19/09/2023Study Day“Rencontres militaires de Napoleonica® la revue” > Napoleonic logisticsPresentation Event in French Logistics are essential to the waging of war. This concept, which emerged during the imperial period, encompasses all the transport and supply activities required for military operations, at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Despite its central importance, it is a subject that has often been neglected by imperial military history, which […]
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from 27/05/2023 to 27/08/2023ExhibitionNapoleon in Playmobil® at AutunWhat could be more remarkable than the life of Napoleon, who came from his native Corsica at the age of 10 and, in 1779, did his first apprenticeship on French soil at the Collège d’Autun (where he would later return)? From Ajaccio to St Helena, the story of the man who became the first French […]
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Object / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st EmpireA lyre-guitar (Pleyel, 1809)In 1801, a German correspondent for the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung [General Musical Newspaper] reporting from Paris wrote about a new instrument that had “suddenly become so popular in France”(“Paris has hardly ever hunted for the newest with greater zeal […] than it now chases after the oldest (from the times of Greek and Roman art, […]
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from 03/06/2023 to 01/10/2023ExhibitionIngres, the artist and his princesPresentation by the château A successful artist in the first half of the 19th century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was an unclassifiable and often visionary painter. Behind his apparent classicism lies an originality and a quest for perfection that continue to fascinate. How did this success come about? With the advent of the July Monarchy (1830-1848), […]