Places, museums, monuments : 9
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Place, museum or monumentThe Briars Park
Update (January 2019): The historic (in terms of Australian history, 1850s) Briars Park, Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia, used to display the Napoleonic Collection of Dame Mabel Brookes (a Balcombe descendant), including a copy of Napoleon’s death mask, in the historic “Homestead”. Unfortunately, due to a burglary a couple of years ago, a number of Napoleonic […]
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Place, museum or monumentThe Athenaeum Museum of Pennsylvania
The Athenaeum society was founded in 1814, and it was to benefit from the general cultural enrichment of Philadelphia brought about by successive waves of French, particularly French émigrés fleeting the French Revolution, the rise of power of Napoleon I, the revolt of Toussaint Louverture on Haiti, the collapse of the First Empire and subsequently the political turmoil generated […]
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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' […]
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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 monumentNew York Public Library
The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations is the full name of the system of research and lending libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. The name itself conjures up an image of New York as a young city with growing population and wealth, in the era of philanthropists and philanthropy […]
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Place, museum or monumentPrince Impérial Commemorative Route
Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, only son of the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie, met his death in South Africa in 1879 in tragic circumstances. In commemoration of this event, the province of KwaZulu created in 1995, a 'Napoleonic route' dedicated to the Prince Impérial. After the disaster at Sedan, the Imperial family […]
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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 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 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 […]