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From Corsica to St Helena, from Rome to Cuba, from Sweden to South Africa, quarter the globe as you track down the Napoleonic places, sites, collections and monuments worldwide.

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Places, museums, monuments : 83

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Hôtel de Bourrienne

Bought and completed in 1790 by Mr. Lormier-Lagrave, this town mansion the Hôtel de Bourrienne was subsequently bequeathed to Lormier-Lagrave's daughter, Fortunée Hamelin, in 1792. Fortunée, a friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais, then commissioned Bélanger to decorate the house. However, heavily in debt, she was forced to sell it in 1801 to Louis Antoine Fauvelet […]
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Elba

Elba is situated in the Tyrrhenian sea opposite Piombino from which it is separated by a canal a mere 10 miles long. This small island 14 miles long and 6 miles wide, is where Napoleon chose to retire when he abdicated for the first time. The Fontainebleau treaty granted him ownership and sovereignty of the […]
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Flaubert Pavilion

Of the property where Gustave Flaubert lived and worked from 1843 until his death, all that remains is this garden pavilion facing a factory-littered Rouen landscape. In the last century, however, Flaubert's house was situated in a particularly agreeable location, on a hillside overlooking the Seine, and a watercolour by Rochegrosse (on show in the […]