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from 29/06/2019 to 13/07/2019Concert, Theatrical EventDonizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” (Saratoga Springs, New York)Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” is a 1840 comic opera about a French orphan who falls for a young Swiss soldier during the Napoleonic wars. This new production which opens Opera Saratoga’s 2019 Summer Festival will feature the Argentinian bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini in the role of Tonio. (Performances: 29 June, 1, 7 and 13 July at the […]
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ObjectBust of Pius VIIThis bust of the Pope who consecrated Napoleon I, made by Antonio Canova, is held at the Château de Versailles. The marble likeness echoes the Pope’s brief visit to Louis XIV’s château, on 3 January 1805 (see here an account of the Pope’s visit to Versailles). Pius VII had been invited to Paris by Napoleon to […]
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Timeline1769-1793: Napoleon Bonaparte’s early yearsTheme(s) : Imperial Family
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ArticleTalking Point with Pierre Branda: identitiesThe Bonaparte family had Italian or more precisely Tuscan origins, and they never completely broke with this original identity. Indeed Ajaccio, the city where the family settled and grew up almost exclusively, was for a long time a Genoese enclave on island territory. Furthermore, Napoleon’s… -
ArticleLetter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Archdeacon Lucien Bonaparte, his great-uncle, on the death of Charles Bonaparte (n°4, March 1785)This early letter written by Napoleon is taken from the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte, Volume I: Les apprentissages, 1784-1797 (edited by Fayard/Fondation Napoléon, 2004) (English version based on a 1961 translation by John Eldred Howard in Letters and Documents of Napoleon: Vol I: The… -
ArticleDocument > Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his father, Charles Bonaparte (September 1784)This early letter (handwritten missive, French Archives Nationales, 400 AP 137) written by Napoleon is taken from the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte, Volume I: Les apprentissages, 1784-1797 (edited by Fayard/Fondation Napoléon, 2004) (English version based on a 1961 translation by John Eldred Howard in…
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from 17/08/2019 to 18/08/2019Family, Re-enactmentNapoleon 250: event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youthTo celebrate the 250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth*, the Waterloo Memorial 1815 is organising an event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youth. This event will immerse visitors in the lives of civilians and soldiers at the end of the 18th century, with demonstrations of crafts such as leather tanning, basket weaving and embroidery as well as […]
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from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019Other250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth: various eventsMarch-December 2019, in Autun (and on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the arrival of Joseph and Napoleon): IMPERIAL YEAR. With talks, exhibitions, guided tours, theatre,… Read more (link in French) May-October 2019, Ajaccio: NAPOLEON YEAR. With an exhibition about Mathilde Bonaparte at the Palais Fesch Museum; an exhibition focusing on Napoleon in contemporary […]