Places, museums, monuments : 33
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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 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 monumentMusée A Bandera – Ajaccio
In February 1979, the A Bandera association was formed, an organisation with the mission to promote interest in the military history of Corsica. And this goal was to be achieved through a periodical, through conferences and through a museum with one permanent and occasional temporary exhibitions. This museum has been in being since 1989 and […]
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Place, museum or monumentCathedral – Ajaccio
On St Helena, as he lay dying Napoleon remembered the church of his childhood: 'If they forbid my corpse, as they have forbidden my body, a small piece of land in which to be laid, I desire to be buried with my ancestors in Ajaccio cathedral in Corsica'. This quotation, engraved on a marble plaque […]
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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 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 monumentMuseum of Historical Figurines – Compiègne
One hundred thousand tin, lead, card and papier-maché figurines, recounting the military and civilian history of France, go to make up the Musée de la Figurine Historique. And the museum spreads out over 5,300 square feet, six chronological sections, and includes twenty dioramas devoted to the First Empire. Two historical reconstructions present 'The victory at Austerlitz, […]
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Place, museum or monument / 2nd Republic / 2nd EmpireVilla Eugénie (Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz)
Villa Eugénie was commissioned by Napoleon III and built in 1854. Queen Hortense had been taken by the region as early as 1807, but it took Empress Eugenia’s persuasion before Napoleon III set up the imperial court’s summer residence there. Eugenia was but a child when she discovered the beauty of the Basque coast with […]
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Place, museum or monumentPlombières-les-Bains
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Place, museum or monumentNaval and Napoleonic Museum
At the very tip of the Cap d'Antibes, the museum is situated in a magnificent location in the shadow of the Tour du Graillon, a former battery Napoleon had restored to a defense post in 1794. It is surrounded by a ten acre park. The second room in the museum evokes the Napoleonic epic specifically […]