Interviews : 25
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InterviewPierre Branda: Napoleon on St Helena “Never in the history of the world have so much money and land been given up to keep a single man in chains” (January 2021)In this interview for napoleon.org, Pierre Branda evokes some of the insights and revelations that came out of his 600-page study of one the most impressively organised and costly incarcerations ever conceived. (with Marie de Bruchard, translation PH)
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InterviewThierry Lentz: a Dictionary that “recounts, with small brush strokes and large ones, Napoleon’s entire life”.Thierry Lentz is a historian, specialist on the Consulate and the Empire, director of the Fondation Napoléon, and he has ‘lived’ with the Emperor for four decades. The 300 entries in his Napoléon. Dictionnaire historique (published in September 2020 by Perrin) are shot through with…
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InterviewBonaparte is no more! – Thierry Lentz answers three questions about his latest bookThierry Lentz touches on some of the surprising conclusions of his latest research in this short interview for napoleon.org (January 2019).
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InterviewFondation Napoléon Concert 2018 “Les voix impériales” : three questions for Peter Hicks, conductorOn 24 May 2018, there will be a concert not to be missed! Conducted by Peter Hicks, the Académie Symphonique de Paris, the choir “Les Voix Impériales”, four soloists, and Sarah Kim on the organ, will be playing Napoleonic works at 8 pm in the…
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InterviewXavier Mauduit: “Artistic policy was a formidable weapon used by the two Emperors”Xavier Mauduit is co- curator with Pierre Branda and Elodie Lefort of the exhibition “L’art au service du pouvoir”, a joint project between the town of Rueil-Malmaison and the Fondation Napoléon (taking place at the Atelier Grognard in Rueil-Malmaison, 13 April – 9 July 2018).…
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InterviewWho exactly was the Conte de Las Cases? Three questions for François Houdecek, 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…
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InterviewThe ‘discovery’ of the manuscript of the “Mémorial de Sainte Hélène”: Three questions for… Peter Hicks, 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…
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InterviewBruno Colson on Napoleon on War: “the limit between the “material” and the “spiritual” components of war” (June 2016)Bruno Colson is a research Professor at the Institute of Strategy and French conflict (at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques, in Paris) and a specialist in the history of the Napoleonic wars and military thinking, History of warfare and strategy (modern…
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InterviewPierre Branda: "Joséphine, a poker player with an unreadable face" (January, 2016)The historian Pierre Branda, who is also the Director of Collections at the Fondation Napoléon, has just written a biography of the most famous woman of the First Empire: Josephine (published by Perrin). The subtitle, "The Swan Paradox", sets the scene. The Swan Paradox refers…
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InterviewVIVIANE DELPECH: ABBADIA, ANTOINE D’ABBADIE’S ARCHITECTURAL LAST WILL AND TESTAMENTThree questions to… Viviane Delpech (2015 Second Empire Prize, for her book "Abbadia, le monument idéal d'Antoine d'Abbadie", edited by PUR, 2015 with photos by Alban Gilbert). Viviane Delpech is an associate researcher (Laboratoire ITEM EA 3002), and lecturer ("chargée de cours") in the Art History…