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from 18/03/2021 to 21/03/2021Conference[Online event] Symposium on the Age of Napoleon in commemoration of the bicentennial of Napoleon’s deathCONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 4 PM EST/9 PM GMT Introductory Remarks Victor-André Masséna, Fondation Napoléon Samuel E. “Skip” Vichness, The Massena Society Alexander Mikaberidze, LSUS Opening Keynote Speech: “Napoleon: the ‘Famous Delinquent’” Michael Broers, University of Oxford FRIDAY, MARCH 19 Roundtable Discussion: The World of Napoleonic Podcasting, 2:00 – 3:45 PM EST Chair: J. […]
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PublicationDessiner pour Napoléon (exhibition catalogue)Book in French -
In picturesImperial decree concerning the feast of Saint Napoleon and that of the re-establishment of the Catholic religion in France (19 February 1806)On 19 February 1806 a decree was issued stating that the feast of Saint Napoleon and that of the re-establishment of the Catholic religion in France would be celebrated throughout the Empire on 15 August, the day of the Assumption, and the moment of the… -
ArticleTalking Point with Alessandro Hicks (independent scholar) > When Napoleon ‘invaded’ Japan (February 2021)Though seen today as the most westernised country of the Far-East, Japan from the early 17th century to 1854 pursued a policy of Sakoku 鎖国 (secluded country) cutting itself off from the outside world. It is a remarkable fact then that, before being forced open by the American naval officer Commodore Perry… -
PublicationNapoléon saint. L’Empereur au Paradis. Contribution à l’imaginaire politique françaisBook in French (translation of title: Holy Napoleon. The Emperor in Paradise. Contribution to the French political imagination) Vincent Petit gives us a fascinating analysis of the little-treated subject of the setting up of the celebration of Saint Napoleon’s Day on 15 August, during the Empire… -
In picturesDescriptive sketch of Saint Helena / to accompany Lieut. Read’s geographical plan of the islandThis engraving is part of the Fondation Napoléon’s Digital library. -
from 14/04/2021 to 19/11/2021Exhibition“NAPOLÉON”Marking the bicentenary of his death, the Napoléon exhibition explores the unlikely story of a complex character who was at once admired and controversial, victorious and conquered, heroic and tragic; a dramatic story that continues to fascinate our contemporaries to this day. It will highlight his political and cultural legacies that have profoundly impacted certain countries, chief […]
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from 18/02/2021 to 31/12/2021Talk[Online event] The British Witnesses to Napoleon | Napoleon 200The death of Napoleon in far off St Helena in May 1821 brought to a crescendo twenty-five years of English-language publishing on the Emperor. Thousands of pages, including the Emperor’s will, Barry O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile, and Emmanuel de Las Cases’ “Journal of Private Life and Conversations of Napoleon” (known in French as the “Memorial”) […]