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Conversazioni Napoleoniche (Napoleonic Talks) 2017 (in Italian)   Free entrance Programme: Monday 21 August, Role of Elisa Bonaparte Baciochi as precursor in terms of health and the use of society to establish consensus, by Velia Gini Bartoli and Simonetta Pardini Tuesday 22 August, Napoleon’s Hat, an exercise in image manipulation?, by Peter Hicks Wednesday 23 […]

Tuesday Lunchtime Talks – 12.30 – 1pm, booking not required 8 August Nelson in the Norfolk Archives – Frank Meeres, Norfolk Record Office. 22 August: Restoration of the Nelson Monument in Great Yarmouth – Michael Knights, former Historic Buildings Officer. 29 August: Nelson’s Shadow: Taking Norfolk’s Mariners out of Lord Nelson’s Mighty Shadow – Mark […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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, […]

2017 marks a double anniversary, the bicentenary of Germaine de Staël’s death (Paris, 14 July 1817) and the 250th anniversary of Benjamin Constant’s birth (Lausanne, 25 October 1767). This commemoration offers the ideal opportunity to highlight the remarkable work and tumultuous life of this pair, one of the most famous couples in the literary and […]

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 […]