Places, museums, monuments : 83
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Place, museum or monumentMuseo del Risorgimento – Milan
This museum of the period in Italy known as the Risorgimento is dedicated entirely to the chequered history of Italianunification, a movement in which Napoleon in fact played an important part. For it was as a result of the First Italian Campaign that Bonaparte established himself as a defender of the Italian cause against theAustrian […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée des Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille Museum
The history of the Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille is closely linked to that of the city. In 1235, the city was emancipated and had to take on the heavy costs of building and fortifying the city. Of the archers, crossbowmen, the swordsmen and gunners who could be mobilised by the aldermen, all that remained were […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée de l’Empéri
The Musée de l'Empéri was started by two passionate collectors, Raoul and Jean Brunon, and contains a total of almost 10,000 objects, documents and books. The history of the French army from 1700 to 1918 is recounted thanks to large-scale historical reconstructions involving 130 life-size infantrymen and cavalrymen. Originally located in the Brunons' family home […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée du Second Empire – Musée de l’Impératrice – Compiègne
Alongside the Tuileries, Saint-Cloud and Fontainebleau, Compiègne was one of the palaces where the imperial couple and the court regularly resided. Indeed it was one of the preferred houses because of the freer lifestyle which reigned, in that respect for etiquette weighed less heavily there. Compiègne also played a key role in lives of the […]
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Place, museum or monumentToledo Museum of Art
Edward Libbey, the Boston glass-maker, relocated his business to Toledobecause there was good sand available for making glass, cheap natural gas, and the location strategic to railroad and shipping. Libbey and his wife Florence Scott were the inspiration behind the birth of this museum of art at the turn of the century. Their separate endowments […]
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Place, museum or monumentMetropolitan Museum of Art
On 4 July, 1866, a group of Americans in Paris were celebrating their national holiday in a restaurant called the “Bois de Boulogne”. At this meal, John Jay, the son of an eminent lawyer, gave a speech proposing that he and his companions should get together to create “a national institution and art gallery” in […]
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Place, museum or monumentMuseum of the History of Medicine – Paris
The neoclassical Collège et Académie de Chirurgie (College and Academy of Surgery) by the architect Gondoin was built in the old Rue des Cordeliers over the years 1769-1775. The rival establishment, the Faculté de Médecine, stood on the Rue de la Bûcherie. After the suppression of the academies and the closure of the faculties in […]
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Place, museum or monumentBois-Préau National Museum
The Bois-Préau Château is situated in the midst of a landscaped park of over 42 acres which used to be part of the Malmaison estate and was bought by Josephine in 1810. Indeed she used it as an annex for Malmaison in order to accommodate both her doctor and guests. Rebuilt in 1855, the subsequent […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée national de la Voiture et du Tourisme
Founded in 1927, on the initiative of the Touring Club de France, the French National Car and Tourism museum takes as its theme the history of road transport from its origins in horse-drawn vehicles to the beginnings of the motor car. Examples of two types of horse-drawn vehicle are on display, namely four-wheelers and two-wheelers. […]
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Place, museum or monumentMorris Jumel House
The Morris-Jumel House is a New York landmark and Manhattan island's oldest exstant private dwelling. Built in 1765 inthe American Palladian style, it was originally a summer villa located 12 miles outside of what was then New York City. The house however had a chequered history before establishing itself in Napoleonic history. Built by a […]