Interviews : 55
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InterviewBICENTENARY OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA: THREE MYTHS REVISED BY STELLA GHERVASStella Ghervas is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Her major book, Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009), explores the intellectual climate and the political conceptions at the time… -
InterviewMaryse Dusoulier : The exhibition "Joséphine, la passion des étoffes" in the Prelle Manufacture Showroom (2015)To mark the bicentenary of the death of the Empress Josephine, a great collector of fabrics, the Paris showroom of the Prelle Manufacture presents "« Joséphine, la passion des étoffes ", from October 24, 2014 (Press release of the exhibition). The prolongation of the exhibition until… -
InterviewInterview with Glenn FlanaganSenior French Lecturer.Project Leader: French Presence in Pietermaritzburg/KwaZulu-Natal: La Route du Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon In 1994, Glenn initiated a cultural tourism research development project based on the French Presence in Pietermaritzburg and KwaZulu-Natal. Her research started with the Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon who was killed in Zululand on 1 June 1879 in an ambush. Interview with […]
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Interview4 questions for… Irène Delage and Chantal Prévot: Paris au temps de Napoléon, the story of a vigorous urban redesignIllustrated with 70 maps and drawing on 300 sources, L'Atlas au temps de Napoléon tells the story of Paris's urban evolution and the vigorous undertakings of Napoleon I, who was without a doubt the first sovereign to concern himself with both the splendour of the capital of his empire and the improvement of the living […]
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InterviewPierre Branda:"On Elba, Napoleon once again took charge of his own destiny" (April 2014)In his new book, historian Pierre Branda, Fondation Napoléon Manager of Capital, Collection and Real Estate, recounts how the reign of Napoleon on the island of Elba was riskier than first thought. After the brutal abdication, he reassumed mastery of his own destiny, firstly placing… -
InterviewPierre Branda : Backstage at the Napoleon in bivouac exhibition at the Palais Fesch in Ajaccio (Corsica), February 2014.The headline article in this week's Napoleonic news was the story of the damage which occurred to objects on show at an exhibition of Napoleon's tent and campaign furniture at the Palais Fesch in Ajaccio on Corsica. The Capital and Collection Section Head of the… -
InterviewThree questions for Pauline Bulot, in charge of the Fondation Napoléon collection.From 23 March – 26 June, the Museum aan de Strom in Antwerp, Belgium plays host to the exhibition ‘Bonaparte at the Scheldt’ . The Fondation Napoléon loaned several objects to the museum for this exhibition and we interviewed Pauline Bulot, who is in charge… -
InterviewEmilie Robbe, ‘Napoléon et l’Europe’ Exhibition at the Musée de l’ArméeOn 27 March 2013, the Musée de l'Armée in Paris will play host to one of the most important exhibitions about Napoleon. Entitled Napoléon et l'Europe, it will bring together numerous artefacts, works of art and documentation to illustrate Napoleon's singular destiny, his military campaigns… -
InterviewTed Gott on "Napoleon: Revolution to Empire""Napoleon: Revolution to Empire", one of the most important Napoleonic exhibitions of the last few decades, offers a panoramic view of French art, culture, and society from the 1770s through to the 1820s. The exhibition, co-organised by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Fondation… -
InterviewAlexander Mikaberidze on Russian Voices of the Napoleonic WarsIn the bicentenary year of the 1812 Russian campaign, the limited use and availability of Russian sources in western historiographical trends appear all the more startling. Despite more than 350 Russian-language memoirs and documents in existence, history of the Napoleonic period - particularly 1812 -…