Places, museums, monuments : 133
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Place, museum or monumentMusée Napoléon de la Pommerie
History Tucked away in the small commune of Cendrieux, in the heart of the Périgord region, and housed in a modest château belonging to the Witt family, is the Musée Napoléon de la Pommerie. The property was acquired towards the end of the 1940s by Princess Marie-Clotilde Napoléon, the great grand-daughter of Jerome, King of […]
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Place, museum or monumentThe Briars Park
Update (January 2019): The historic (in terms of Australian history, 1850s) Briars Park, Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia, used to display the Napoleonic Collection of Dame Mabel Brookes (a Balcombe descendant), including a copy of Napoleon’s death mask, in the historic “Homestead”. Unfortunately, due to a burglary a couple of years ago, a number of Napoleonic […]
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Place, museum or monumentThe Athenaeum Museum of Pennsylvania
The Athenaeum society was founded in 1814, and it was to benefit from the general cultural enrichment of Philadelphia brought about by successive waves of French, particularly French émigrés fleeting the French Revolution, the rise of power of Napoleon I, the revolt of Toussaint Louverture on Haiti, the collapse of the First Empire and subsequently the political turmoil generated […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée Murat (Labastide-Murat, Lot)Given to the Lot department by the descendants of the comtes Murat (the branch derived from the Marshal's brother), the house in which that proud cavalier, but also 'grand amiral', grand-duc de Berg and King of Naples was born, is open to the public, offering…
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Place, museum or monumentMusée Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo's works are frequently related to the First and Second Empires: on the one hand, they played a major part in forging the epic legend surrounding Napoleon I, and on the other, they were filled with open criticism of the imperial regime created by Napoleon III. Such is the context for any visit to […]
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Place, museum or monumentLodi
Lodi is a small Lombard city situated southeast of Milan. On 10 May, 1796, in the course of the first Italian campaign, Lodi was the scene of a violent battle. Bonaparte, after having crossed the Po near Piacenza, pushed to trap the Austrian army of General Beaulieu west of the Adda. Beaulieu fell back, the […]
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Place, museum or monumentArc de Triomphe du Carrousel – Paris
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (firmly anchored to the tradition of the ancient triumphal arches) was built by Percier and Fontaine in circa 1806 to 1808 to celebrate the Napoleonic victories of 1805, and it was originally intended as a monumental entrance to the Tuileries palace. When that palace was destroyed by fire in […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Bourrienne
Bought and completed in 1790 by Mr. Lormier-Lagrave, this town mansion the Hôtel de Bourrienne was subsequently bequeathed to Lormier-Lagrave's daughter, Fortunée Hamelin, in 1792. Fortunée, a friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais, then commissioned Bélanger to decorate the house. However, heavily in debt, she was forced to sell it in 1801 to Louis Antoine Fauvelet […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Brienne
Built in 1724 by Aubry, the hôtel de Brienne was bought in 1802 by Lucien Bonaparte who had it restored. It was Napoleon’s mother’s residence from 1806 to 1814. Its original decoration has been maintained in several rooms such as the Empire drawing-room and Letizia’s boudoir. Among the Empire collections, a few chairs of Marie […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum of the History of Rueil-Malmaison
The former town hall of Rueil-Malmaison, built in 1868 by the architects Lebois and Prince in imitation of that in Fontainebleau, is now the present home of a museum (inaugurated in 1982) dedicated entirely to the history of the town. Malmaison old town hall was opened by Napoleon III on 1st September, 1869, and on […]