Places, museums, monuments : 83
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Place, museum or monumentLouvre Museum, First Empire
The Louvre can never be a comfortable residence. I regard it as a kind of ceremonial palace in which we must store all our riches in the field of art and science, such as statues, bronze sculptures, paintings, books, archives, medals… Napoleon I. In 1803, ten years after it was created, the Louvre was rebaptized the […]
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Place, museum or monumentSedan Castle Museum
The main museum of Sedan is located in the largest castle of Europe with an area of 35,000 m². The battle of Sedan, which took place on 1 September 1870, saw the defeat of the army of Marshall MacMahon, who was beaten and made prisoner by the troups of the royal prince of Saxony. Napoleon […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseo Civico del Risorgimento – Bologna
During the Esposizione Emiliana of 1888, one exhibit, a 'temple to the Risorgimento', was so popular with the public that the council of the Comune decided to make it into a permanent museum, a museum which has been in effect inaugurated on the 12th June 1883 in a room in the Municipal Museum. As with […]
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Place, museum or monumentElysée Palace
This palace, which dates back to the 18th century, became in 1805 the official residence of Joachim Murat, the Governor of Paris at the time, and his wife Caroline, Napoleon's sister. Restored by Vignon and Thibault, the palace owes two of its most splendid rooms to these two architects: the “Salon Murat” and the “Salon […]
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Place, museum or monumentNapoleonmuseum Arenenberg
Arenenberg Palace in the canton of Thurgovie was purchased in 1817 by the (at that time) exiled Queen Hortense. She spent every summer there from 1823 until the year of her death in 1837. Prince Louis-Napoleon spent his youth in Arenenberg, dividing his time between this charming residence and his studies in Augsburg. Forced to […]
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Place, museum or monumentNational Museum of the Légion d’Honneur and the order of knights
The Légion d'honneur was instituted by Bonaparte on 29 Floréal, An X, (19 May, 1802) as a reward for civil and military services and virtues which had “contributed to the defence and prosperity of the country”. Borrowing its name from Roman antiquity, it took as its motto the words “Honour and Homeland”. There are three […]
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Place, museum or monumentChâteau de Grosbois Napoleonic Museum
At the end of the 16th century, the treasurer of the 'Epargne', lord of Blayes and Chardonnet, Raoul Moreau, built a château on the previously royal land of Grosbois. This estate was subsequently sold to the son of Charles IX, Charles d'Angoulème. And it was Angoulème who gave the park and the château its present-day […]
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Place, museum or monumentHôtel de Beauharnais
This private mansion was built by Boffrand in 1714 and bought by Eugène de Beauharnais in 1803. Renovated by Bataille, a neo-Egyptian portico was added on to the front overlooking the yard in 1807 while the interior was lavishly decorated. The Green drawing room on the ground floor is decorated with landscapes by Hubert Robert […]
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Place, museum or monumentLouvre Museum Second Empire
It was Napoleon III who in the end finished the Louvre, thus completing the “Great Design” dreamt of by French kings over the centuries.Napoleon I had already started the construction during the First Empire, building in the Tuileries and hoping to link the edifice to the Louvre palace, but he left it unfinished. As early […]
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Place, museum or monumentHome of Victor Hugo
It was in October 1832, that the Hugo family moved into this house in the Place Royale, today the Place des Vosges. The writer lived there until the Revolution of 1848. There he wrote an siginificant part of his oeuvre, namely: Les Chants du Crepuscule, 1835; Les Voix Intérieures, 1837; Ruy Blas, 1838; Les Rayons […]