Places, museums, monuments : 3
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Place, museum or monumentImperial chapel – Ajaccio
The construction of the Palatine chapel, more commonly known as the 'Imperial Chapel', was the result of the last wishes of Cardinal Fesch: 'On the sale of my Great Gallery of paintings, my heirs should take the sum of two hundred thousand francs for the construction of a church in Ajaccio…in which should be built […]
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Place, museum or monumentCathedral – Ajaccio
On St Helena, as he lay dying Napoleon remembered the church of his childhood: 'If they forbid my corpse, as they have forbidden my body, a small piece of land in which to be laid, I desire to be buried with my ancestors in Ajaccio cathedral in Corsica'. This quotation, engraved on a marble plaque […]
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Place, museum or monumentImperial Theatre of Compiègne
It was with the aim of entertaining the imperial court during its sittings Compiègne and of providing a more spacious theatre than that built by Louis-Philippe, that Napoleon III decided in 1866 to build a more up-to-date and larger theatre. Located to the left-hand side of the palace (on a site once occupied by a […]