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Places, museums, monuments

From Corsica to St Helena, from Rome to Cuba, from Sweden to South Africa, quarter the globe as you track down the Napoleonic places, sites, collections and monuments worldwide.

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Places, museums, monuments : 3

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Dosne-Thiers Foundation

The Parisian town mansion which houses Dosne-Thiers Foundation was built in Place Saint-George by a stockbroker whose daughter, Elise Dosne married the politician Louis-Adolphe Thiers. From 1833 onwards, Elise and Louis Adolphe entertained many celebrities of the time and put together an important collection of books and works of art. The private mansion was burnt down […]
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Marmottan Library

Paul Marmottan (1856-1932) could have had a brilliant career in industry, administration or politics, but on the death of his father he chose otherwise. He became an historian, collector and patron of the arts and devoted himself and his entire fortune to one end, his passion for the first Empire.He travelled frequently to Belgium, the […]
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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations is the full name of the system of research and lending libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. The name itself conjures up an image of New York as a young city with growing population and wealth, in the era of philanthropists and philanthropy […]