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ArticleLa France sous Napoléon III > L’essor économique et l’évolution sociale (synthèse)La France moderne est née sous Napoléon III. Les courbes économiques et les tableaux de chiffres en rendent compte. Les historiens s’accordent sur ce point. Un débat subsiste pourtant qui consiste à s’interroger sur le rôle effectif de l’Empereur dans le démarrage de la révolution… -
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ArticleBullet Point #33 – What is the best Napoleon film?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, May 2020, translation PH) -
from 11/05/2020 to 31/12/2020Exhibition, OtherCovid-19: Museums re-openingMusée Napoléon Thurgovie/Napoleonmuseum – Arenenberg (link in English) 12 May 2020 Musée de l’image à Épinal (link in French): 12 May 2020 Musée Masséna (link in French): 13 May 2020 Waterloo Memorial (link in English): 20 May 2020 Musée de la guerre de 1870 de Loigny-la-bataille (link in French): end of May 2020, opening with a new exhibition “Napoleon […]
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ArticleThe Battle of SedanAs dawn broke on 1 September 1870, Emperor Napoleon III was encircled by Prussian forces in the small town of Sedan. After a calamitous campaign, in which his army had seen far more defeats than victories, he had ordered his army (which at this point… -
Place, museum or monument / Directory / 1st EmpirePalais du Roi de Rome at RambouilletIn August 1806, the architect Auguste Famin, architect in chief of the chateau de Rambouillet, was charged with the reconstruction of the government building of Rambouillet, which Napoleon destined for his son, the King of Rome, born in 1811. Famin won the Prix de Rome in 1801, Famin had stayed at the Academie Française in […]
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from 25/11/2020 to 26/11/2020ConferenceNapoleon III and the Economy► Programme (in French) ◄ SPEAKERS and SESSION PRESIDENTS: François VILLEROY de GALHAU, Governor of the Banque de France; Victor-André MASSENA, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon; Pierre BRANDA; Eric ANCEAU; Serge SCHWEITZER; Dominique BARJOT; Thierry LENTZ; François de COUSTIN; Hubert BONIN; Thierry CLAEYS; Matthieu de OLIVEIRA; Nicolas STOSKOPF; Arnaud MANAS; Agnès d’ANGIO-BARROS; Frédéric BARBIER; Jean-François BELHOSTE; Clémence BECQUET; Laurent THEIS; Georges RIBEILL; Marie-Françoise BERNERON-COUVENHES; Bruno MARNOT; Michel HAU; BOURILLON; Michel CARMONA; Michel CADOT; Juliette […]