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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 : 32

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Saint Augustin Church

During the second Empire, this neighbourhood, known as 'little Poland', underwent significant redevelopment following construction work by Haussmann – broad straight avenues were laid out and people flocked to live in the new houses built there, greatly increasing the population. A parish was therefore established and a church built, and great care was taken that […]
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Vendôme Column

“The city of Paris has a great mast, made entirely of bronze, with sculpted Victories and Napoleon as its lookout”. Such were Balzac’s words on the Vendôme column, the obelisk which throughout the 19th century was seen as the most important symbol of Paris and upon which each government attempted to make its mark. Its […]