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from 05/05/2021 to 09/01/2022ExhibitionNapoleon, the last actDedicated to the final moments of Napoleon Bonaparte’s epic deeds, the Rome Napoleonic Museum’s exhibition aims to illustrate the events of the Emperor’s exile and death on St Helena through an evocative visual narrative, constructed using prints, watercolours and sculptural and numismatic effigies. The exhibition is divided into four sections: St Helena, the last island […]
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PaintingThe Rehearsal for the SacreThis widely reproduced engraving (after an original painting by Jean-Georges Vibert (1895)[1] depicts an event that is said to have happened about a week before Napoleon’s coronation and consecration (otherwise known as the “Sacre”), in which the Emperor was able to fine-tune the orchestration of… -
Bibliography / VariaJacques Jourquin, writer and historian (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… -
PublicationWellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813. Never a finer armyFirst came the news of the French defeat in Russia in January 1813. Then six months later, Europe learned of the French rout at Vitoria. European commentators felt that Napoleon’s days were numbered. The aspiring German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was so inspired by Wellington’s… -
ArticleTalking Point with Amélie Marineau-Pelletier: Joan of Arc, heroine of the French nationProbably the most famous equestrian statue of Joan of Arc [Jeanne d’Arc] is the one by Emmanuel Fremiet, erected in 1874 on the Place des Pyramides and which has become a veritable Paris landmark. And this is but one example of the omnipresent place that Joan of Arc occupies not only in French public space but […]
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ArticleTalking Point with Juliette Glikman : Were liberties the essence of the Second Empire or its downfall?Immediately after the coup d’état of 2 December 1851, the question of liberalising the regime, still in limbo, was raised. On 31 December 1851, the Prince-President Louis-Napoléon [future Napoleon III] announced his intention to create a “system that would restore authority without harming equality”, in order to found the “only edifice capable of sustaining a […]
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PublicationArenenberg. Königin Hortense, Napoléon und Kaiserin Eugénie: Ein Familiensitz Arenenberg(French-German edition) Title in French: Arenenberg. La reine Hortense, Napoléon III et l’impératrice Eugénie : une maison de famille Christine Egli, Deputy Director of the Napoleon Museum in Thurgau, offers us a bilingual French-German version of the history of the imperial estate of Arenenberg (now the…