Press reviews

In January 2021, the beginning of an exceptional year of commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I, the press worldwide reported on an offer for sale of an unpublished manuscript, dictated and corrected by Napoleon himself, on the Battle of Austerlitz. François…

On 19 november 2020, the town of Montpellier acquired at auction an important collection of manuscripts of the Memoirs of Cambaceres. Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambaceres (1753-1824) came from a family of magistrates in Montpellier. He was the Second consul of Bonaparte, and took part in the drafting of the Civil code. This remarkable body of work, […]

The long-term loan of the Pendule au Télégraphe [Telegraph Clock], a national treasure, to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg by the Mobilier National, will complete and enrich the historical layout of Napoleon I’s room and brilliantly evoke the imperial status of the Palais Rohan during the First Empire. The Palais Rohan de Strasbourg was […]

On 10 January 2019, a handwritten letter penned on 14 May 1803 by King George III addressed to the British Secretary of State Lord Hawkesbury in which he intended to declare war on Napoleon was bought by a private collector for more than £11,000 at auction, more than 11 times its upper estimate of £1,000. Transcript of the […]

Among items in a recent auction at Sotheby’s, several Napoleonic items, mostly from the collection of Empress Eugenie, found bidders. A tortoiseshell double portrait box with gold and enamel mounts, Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 1801-1809, oval, the lid inset with two facing profiles in cameo of Napoléon I, Emperor of the French and his consort Joséphine. […]

Last month a new Napoleonic itinerary was inaugurated in the town of Châteauroux, focussing on the person of General Bertrand, whose presence in the town is difficult to miss, if only with the museum dedicated to him. The aim of the trail is to show visitors that part of General Bertrand’s life took place in the […]

For the last five years, the Chateau de Valençay has been preparing for a new room that will allow visitors to finally discover all the treasures of Talleyrand in Valençay. Located in the heart of the chateau, the new treasure room will play on the intimacy, proximity and discovery of an original collection of objects […]

In line with monarchs and Kings before him, who came to hunt in the nearby Forest of Rambouillet, the Chateau de Rambouillet was one of Napoleon’s official “Imperial residences”. Between 1804 and 1815, the Emperor lived there for only 60 days, “but he himself directed a whole series of major works,” explains Laurent Mortier, administrator […]

In accordance with Austrian law, archaeologists have been working on a number of sites between the Austrian towns of Deutsch-Wagram and Parbasdorf, North-East of Vienna, to explore and identify any features of archaeological interest before planned construction of the new Marchfeldsnellstraβe highway begins in early 2019. Amongst the many sites being investigated by archaeologists is […]

Two precious reports by the Minister of War Henry-Jacques-Guillaume-Clarke to Napoleon I and an 18th century polychrome wooden sculpture, recovered by the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Department were returned today [12 June] at the Palazzo Farnese, to the French Ambassador Christian Masset. These restitutions are the result of two different investigations conducted respectively […]