Interviews : 7
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InterviewThe Memorial: Chantal Prevot on the History of the publication, October 2017On the occasion of the publication of the original manuscript of the Emmanuel de Las Cases Le Memorial de Sainte-Hélène, discovered and commented on by four researchers from the Fondation Napoléon – Thierry Lentz, Peter Hicks, François Houdecek, and Chantal Prévot – we asked each of them…
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InterviewThierry Lentz: Exhibition “Napoleon on St Helena: His fight for his Story” an exceptional opportunity to see objects that have not been seen together since 1821The exhibition “Napoleon on St Helena: His fight for his Story” which will take place at the Musée de l'Armée (Army Museum) in Paris from 6 April to 24 July 2016, promises to be exceptional in more ways than one. The Napoleon Foundation has played…
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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…
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InterviewInterview with Glenn Flanagan
Senior 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 redesign
Illustrated 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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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…
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InterviewChantal Prévot: "Les Paysans de Napoléon : aspects de la vie quotidienne et des mentalités" (March, 2010)At the start of the 19th century, the peasantry accounted for eighty percent of the French population. And although this silent majority has received very little attention from historians, the history of the rural classes is nevertheless rich in diversity, complexity, and even contradictions, both in the way…