Press reviews : 10
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Press reviewSale of Bonaparte family heirlooms
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. […]
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Press reviewBertrand itinerary inaugurated at Châteauroux
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 […]
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Press reviewTreasure room at the Chateau de Valençy
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 […]
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Press reviewThe Emperor’s appartments at the Chateau de Rambouillet re-open
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 […]
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Press reviewRome: Two stolen letters written to Napoleon have been returned to France
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 […]
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Press review27 soldiers who died for France honoured after 200 years
On Saturday 5 May 2018, in the village of Marches, near Chambéry (South-Eastern France), the names of 27 local soldiers killed in action were finally honoured after two centuries of obscurity when a memorial plaque was installed next to the existing war memorial in the village. The names of these 27 young men, who gave […]
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Press reviewLa Roche-sur-Yon joins the “Ville Imperiale” (“Imperial City”) network
The town of La Roche-sur-Yon (which was established on 25 May 1804, initially called ‘Napoleon’ under the Empire, and then ‘Napoléon-Vendée’ under the Second Empire) has officially joined the network of towns (such as Rueil-Malmaison, Compiègne, Fontainebleau and Saint-Cloud) whose history is strongly connected to one or both of the two French Empires justifying the […]
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Press reviewThe Battle of the Piave (1809) is remembered in Santa Lucia di Piave (Veneto, Italy)
A new monument on the Via Mura in Santa Lucia di Piave, was inaugurated this week by the mayor, Riccardo Szumski, in memory of the so-called “Battaglia del Piave” (“Battle of the Piave”). Upon it can be read: “Between Mandre and Campana, in the territory of Santa Lucia di Piave, on the left bank of […]
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Press reviewNapoleon I Museum at Fontainebleau reopens 25 February 2018
Installed in 1986 in the Louis XV wing of the Château de Fontainebleau, the Napoleon I Museum aims to “present the First Empire in its many facets” through a collection of more than 3000 works, combining the concepts of both “historical charge and decorative function”. Paintings or sculptures, portraits, weapons, artefacts, drawings or archival documents […]
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Press reviewRestoration of an organ and case donated by Napoleon III to to the church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul, Rueil-Malmaison
On Friday 12 January 2018, the organ of the church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison (Paris Region) whose gilded case, dating from the late fifteenth century was donated by Napoleon III, was blessed by the episcopal vicar of Nanterre, in celebration of the completion of an eighteen-month restoration operation, at the cost of €205,269, […]