What's On

For beginning and improving writers, this workshop runs over two days and continues on Tuesday 1 August, with local author and creative writing tutor Amanda Addison. All resources provided. The Nelson & Norfolk exhibition (Norwich Castle Museum, 29 July – 1 October) with its first class exhibits and beautiful works of art, along with class exercises and […]

Full information, call for papers, registration form and details of extracurricular activities can be found on the website. Other enquires contact J. David Markham, President.

A sound and light show with as a backdrop the Hôtel des Invalides, the last resting place of Napoleon. From June 14 to August 27, at 10:30 pm each night, except on Sundays English performance on Mondays and Thursdays French performance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays Website and tickets

Under the high patronage of His Excellency the Ambassador of Mexico to France, Juan Manuel Gómez-Robledo, the Mexican Embassy in France is organizing (in collaboration with the Historical Defence Service, the Souvenir Napoléonien and the Fondation Napoléon) a conference on the theme “The French intervention in Mexico (1862-1867): An unexpected conflict, the beginning of a friendship” on 5 […]

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, […]

The myth of Napoleon, then First Consul of France, was greatly strengthened by his victory in the Battle of Marengo, which features heavily in this exhibition. Fought on 14 June 1800, the battle was a success. Not only did Napoleon emerge from the battle victorious, but this victory was won against the odds, with the […]

Archives are the collective memory of the State and people, whether recent or distant memories, sources of information or precious relics. Coveted booty, a hateful symbol, strategic information, archives in times of conflict are at the mercy of those who would destroy them, confiscate them … their survival depends on the action of sentinels who […]

Pierre-Joseph Redouté – often called the Raphael of Flowers – reached a zenith in flower painting, at the juncture between science and fine arts. He became a model, still celebrated today for the elegance and accuracy of his interpretation of the new flora that appeared in gardens between the end of the Ancien Regime and […]

An exhibition at the Galerie des Gobelins (part of the Manufactures des Gobelins, tapestry factory) is displaying three centuries’ of seats, thrones and chairs belonging to historical as well as more recent members of the French elite. All the chairs in the exhibition come from the French “Mobilier National” (link in English), an institution which […]