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from 06/07/2017 to 02/09/2017Theatrical EventA night at Les InvalidesA sound and light show with as a backdrop the Hôtel des Invalides, the last resting place of Napoleon. From June 14 to August 27, at 10:30 pm each night, except on Sundays English performance on Mondays and Thursdays French performance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays Website and tickets
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from 17/05/2017 to 18/09/2017ExhibitionAn experience of chaos. Destruction, Spoliation and Archival Rescue (1789-1945)Archives are the collective memory of the State and people, whether recent or distant memories, sources of information or precious relics. Coveted booty, a hateful symbol, strategic information, archives in times of conflict are at the mercy of those who would destroy them, confiscate them … their survival depends on the action of sentinels who […]
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ArticleSummer Reading List 2017A selection of publications from the last year to put you in a Napoleonic mood this summer. Have a look at last year’s Summer reading list or our most recent Christmas selection for more ideas. -
ArticleA visit to LongwoodOff St. Helena: Friday, 15th August, 1817 Copied by his great-grand-daughter, M.C. Bernard, from the diary of Lieut. Herbert John Clifford, R.N, 1817 [written on board H.M. sloop Lyra on the homeward voyage from China, whither the Lyra had gone with Lord Amherst’s embassy.] We arrived at St. Helena late in the afternoon of the 11th […]
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from 23/05/2017 to 22/10/2017ExhibitionEine Königin macht Dampf! (Queen Hortense launches Lake Constance into the steam era! 1817-1837)Exhibition at the Napoleonmuseum Thurgau on Lake Constance, Swizterland. 200 years of Bonapartes at Lake Constance – this anniversary is the occasion for the new exhibition at the Napoleon Castle on the Arenenberg. Title: Eine Königin macht Dampf – Zeitenwende am Bodensee 1817-1837″. Hortense de Beauharnais, the mother of the last Emperor of the French, […]
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ObjectThe phonautographeThe phonautograph, the first machine ever to record sound, was invented during the Second Empire, in 1853, by the Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817-1879). Using a technique analogous to that of today’s seismometer (which converts earth tremors into a visual signal), the phonoautograph consisted of a membrane, placed at the end of an acoustic […]
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from 01/06/2017 to 25/11/2017ExhibitionEmmanuel de Las Cases, Napoleon’s Memorialist (‘Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le Mémorialiste de Napoléon’)An exhibition at the Centre National et Musée Jean Jaurès is presenting a collection of correspondences between Napoleon and Las Cases, who was made Baron of the Empire on 28 January 1809. It documents the journey of Las Cases from ex-royalist to Imperialist and companion of Napoleon. Emmanuel de Las Cases was the author of […]