Places, museums, monuments : 83
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Place, museum or monumentSalon napoléonien, Hôtel de Ville – Ajaccio
The Hôtel de Ville or town hall in Ajaccio was built during the reign of Charles X between 1824 and 1830. In it is the Salon napoléonien which houses various napoleonic paintings and statues, and memorabilia of the imperial family. For reasons of lack of space, a part of the collection is on show at […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum of Public Health and the Hospitals of Paris
Situated in the Latin quarter close to Notre-Dame cathedral, the Museum of Public Health and the Hospitals of Paris (Musée de l'Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris) has been sited in the Hôtel de Miramion, a building attributed to François Mansart, since its creation. This private town mansion was, as early as 1674, associated with […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée d’Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay collection ranges from 1848 to 1914 and thus displays important pieces from the Second Empire (1852-1870. In keeping with its original aim, its ambition is to present all of the artistic diversity of the period through various types of artistic objects: paintings, sculptures, architectural projects and ornamentation are combined in every room […]
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Place, museum or monumentMichelet Museum-Vascoeuil Castle
The Vascoeuil Castle is the home of the only Michelet Museum in France. The historian was the victim of censorship under the Second Empire because of his liberal positions. The courses he taught at the College of France were abolished starting in 1851, that is to say, one year before the proclamation of the Empire, […]
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Place, museum or monumentMarmottan Museum
Situated in the La Muette neighbourhood between the Parc du Ranelagh gardens and the Bois de Boulogne, the Marmottan Museum has its home in alarge town house built in the Empire style. Once a hunting lodgebuilt for the maréchal Kellermann, the house was purchased in 1882by Jules Marmottan who saw it as the ideal place […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée Fesch – Ajaccio
In the heart of Ajaccio lies Palais Fesch, and in that building is the Musée Fesch displaying the painting collection amassed by Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839), Napoleon's maternal uncle and archbishop of Lyons, the primate of the Gauls, a great art lover and important patron. It was Fesch's desire to found an Intsitute of Arts […]
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Place, museum or monumentNational Museum of the Château de Malmaison
The château de Malmaison, purchased by Josephine in 1799 was, together with the Tuileries, the French government's headquarters from 1800 to 1802. When Napoleon moved to Saint-Cloud, Josephine stayed in Malmaison and commissioned a wide range of improvements to the house. She settled in permanently after her divorce in 1809 and died there on May […]
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Place, museum or monumentDomaine de la Pagerie
In 1763, in a truly beautiful spot overlooking the Caribbean Sea, was born a child with a most extraordinary future ahead of her: for this little girl was none other than Marie-Joseph-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, who was to become Josephine, Empress of the French.Josephine spent the first sixteen years of her life in the […]
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Place, museum or monumentHome of Chateaubriand – La Vallée-aux-Loups
Following his article against Napoleon which had appeared in the Mercure in 1807, Chateaubriand, victim of imperial censorship, was forced to move out of at least two houses in Paris. However, thanks to the success of his earlier publications, Atala and Le Génie du Christianisme, he was able to afford a modest property located in […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseo Napoleonico – Cuba
The Napoleonic Museum in Cuba is the happy result of the combinationof the personal collections of Julio Lobo and Orestes Ferrara. The artefacts and memorabilia on exhibition were bought at auctionduring the first half of the 20th century and represent the mostimportant Napoleonic collection in Central America. The collection itself was declared a 'National Heritage' […]