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Program Friday 1 December 2017 17:30     Fires of Girzikowitz, Zuran hill (organized by the commune of Podoli) 18:00     Skirmish in Krenovice (orgaized by Buhurt) 18:00     Fires of Girzikowitz, Jirikovice, Blazovska street (organized by Jirikovice) Saturday 2 December 2017 07:30     Zuran hill, Sun of Austerlitz, review of the French troops 09:00     Tvarozna, review of the Austrian […]

Programme (see here for full details of talks): 10.00am Registration 10.30am – 11.30am Brexit at Waterloo / John Morewood 11.30am – 11.45am Break 11.45am – 12.45pm Frozen in Time / Paul F. Brunyee 12.45pm – 1.00pm View the Siborne model / War Gallery 1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm – 3.00pm Thank God we have the Navy / Carole Divall 3.00pm […]

GENERAL PROGRAMME FOR THE 2017 MURAT HISTORY WEEKEND IN PIZZO CALABRIA (ITALY) Saturday 7/10/2017 4.30pm  HISTORIC PROCESSION leaving from the Cathedral San Francesco di Paola and continuing this itinerary: Via San Francesco, Corso Garibaldi, Piazza della Repubblica, Via Marconi, Chiesa di San Giorgio (Visit of the tomb of Re Gioacchino), Via Benedetto Musolino, Piazza della […]

The full presentation of the Festival in French General practical information (in English) Programme: Saturday 30 September 4pm Introduction to the concert by Brigitte François-Sappey, musicologist “L’Oiseau prophète Nature et musique aux temps romantiques” 5.30pm concert Romantic escapes in the forest of Fontainebleau Chamber Choir Les Elements Corine Durous, piano Joël Suhubiette, direction 8.30 pm concert […]

A free exhibition at the Musée Jeanne d’Albret presents the first results of the archeological excavations of a Napoleonic burial site in Orthez, produced by Inrap, in partnership with the University of Pau and the Adour countries (UPPA), and the land of Art and History of Orthez and Béarn des Gaves. (See also our press […]

The porcelain factory of King Jerome and the Parisian factories This exhibition came about after the discovery by Olivier Baustian of an exceptional collection of porcelain from Sèvres and Paris dating from the First Empire in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Brunswick in Lower Saxony, Germany, a museum which also houses the […]

The exhibition presents some of the most extraordinary and potent objects connected to Nelson, from his boyhood in Norfolk to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.  Ruth Battersby Tooke, Senior Curator of Costume and Textiles at Norwich Castle, said: “The exhibition is built around key objects such as this emblematic ensign, with […]

Caroline Bonaparte was a woman of a complex and difficult temperament, yet she won over hearts by her beauty, her culture and spirit, but also thanks to a deep political intelligence, which reflected her ambition, to gain a position on a level with that of her rank and his personality. Napoleon affirmed in this respect: […]

An exhibition at the Centre National et Musée Jean Jaurès is presenting a collection of correspondences between Napoleon and Las Cases, who was made Baron of the Empire on 28 January 1809. It documents the journey of Las Cases from ex-royalist to Imperialist and companion of Napoleon. Emmanuel de Las Cases was the author of […]

Exhibition at the Napoleonmuseum Thurgau on Lake Constance, Swizterland. 200 years of Bonapartes at Lake Constance – this anniversary is the occasion for the new exhibition at the Napoleon Castle on the Arenenberg. Title: Eine Königin macht Dampf – Zeitenwende am Bodensee 1817-1837″. Hortense de Beauharnais, the mother of the last Emperor of the French, […]