Places, museums, monuments : 83
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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 […]
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Place, museum or monumentMusée de l’Histoire de France – National Archive
The Museum of the History of France was created in 1867 by Napoleon III as a means of presenting to the public the most interesting and the most prestigious documents held in the National Archive. The National Archive itself was a creation of the Revolution but it was not until Napoleon 1st took a hand […]
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Place, museum or monumentPalais de Beaux-Arts – Lille
This Lille art gallery was founded by an act of parliament passed by Bonaparte on 1 September 1801. At that time, when the art pieces seized during the Revolution and the works of art stolen from Flanders, Italy and Germany were filling up the Louvre (soon to be called the Musée Napoléon), the First Consul […]
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Place, museum or monumentLes Invalides, the Military Museum and Tomb of Napoleon
The Hôtel des Invalides was commissioned in 1670 by Louis XIV in order to provide accommodation and hospital care for wounded soldiers. In 1815, after Napoleon’s abdication, over 5,000 survivors of the Great Army were listed there. Napoleon inspected the place and visited his men in 1808, 1813 and 1815. The chapel of the Invalides […]
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Place, museum or monumentCarnavalet Museum
In 1866, after his town planning projects had removed a section of the heart of Paris, Baron Haussmann decided to create a museum dedicated to the history of the capital. It was thus at his instigation that the city of Paris purchased the Carnavalet Hotel, a splendid building constructed in 1548 for Jacques de Ligneris, […]
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Place, museum or monumentThe Cabildo
That Louisiana is one of the most mysterious and culturally rich states in America is well known. That it houses a wealth of Napoleonic history would come as a surprise to most.More than any other landmark, the Cabildo is a symbol of Louisiana's early history. Completed in 1799, the present structure occupies a site associated […]
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Place, museum or monumentAmboise Postal Museum
Set in a beautiful Renaissance house surrounded by an Italian-style garden, the Amboise Postal Museum traces the history of postal services in France. In fact, the word 'post' comes from the posts or stations where horses were kept for sending on the mail, newspapers and printed matter in general. Later on, there were also to […]