What's On : 17
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from 01/10/2022 to 01/12/2023Commemoration, Conference, Festival, Other, Study Day, Talk, Theatrical Event2023 Année Napoléon III – The 150th anniversary of the death of Napoleon III -
from 18/09/2021 to 03/10/2021OtherThe Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (a project for Paris) imagined by Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeThroughout the entire period when the artwork is on display, as well as during its preparation, the space beneath the Arc de Triomphe over the consecrated stone slab, where, since 1923 the Eternal Flame has burned in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, will be fully maintained. As always, veterans associations and volunteers […]
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from 11/05/2020 to 31/12/2020Exhibition, OtherCovid-19: Museums re-openingMusée Napoléon Thurgovie/Napoleonmuseum – Arenenberg (link in English) 12 May 2020 Musée de l’image à Épinal (link in French): 12 May 2020 Musée Masséna (link in French): 13 May 2020 Waterloo Memorial (link in English): 20 May 2020 Musée de la guerre de 1870 de Loigny-la-bataille (link in French): end of May 2020, opening with a new exhibition “Napoleon […]
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from 13/09/2019 to 13/10/2019Exhibition, Radio TV CinemaLittle Corporal on the Big Screen: The Film Posters of Napoleon BonaparteThe James Smith Noel Collection and the R.W. Norton Art Gallery are proud to present “Little Corporal on the Big Screen: The Film Posters of Napoleon Bonaparte”, a unique exhibition of 35 original posters and other film artifacts from countries as diverse as Argentina, Belgium, Cuba, Egypt, England, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and, […]
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from 26/07/2019 to 31/12/2020OtherExperience the “Retour des cendres” in 3-D at the Arc de TriompheThe Arc de Triomphe was ordered by Napoleon I in 1806. Exiled to St Helena in 1815, the Emperor died 15 years before the monument was completed (in 1836). It was in a spirit of reconciliation between all French people that King Louis-Philippe decided, in 1840, to have the Emperor’s body brought back to France on board the famous frigate Belle […]
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from 14/03/2019 to 31/12/2019Exhibition, OtherBicentenary of the Births of Victoria and AlbertLondon The V&A Museum (London, UK) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s births with a season of events and displays, including a new addition to the jewellery collection – Queen Victoria’s stunning sapphire and diamond coronet (video), designed for her by Albert, and on display from 11 April Victoria and Albert’s Museum (13 […]
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from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019Other250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth: various eventsMarch-December 2019, in Autun (and on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the arrival of Joseph and Napoleon): IMPERIAL YEAR. With talks, exhibitions, guided tours, theatre,… Read more (link in French) May-October 2019, Ajaccio: NAPOLEON YEAR. With an exhibition about Mathilde Bonaparte at the Palais Fesch Museum; an exhibition focusing on Napoleon in contemporary […]
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from 28/05/2018 to 03/06/2018Commemoration, Tour22nd French week: La Route du Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon, Commemorations in South Africa“La Route du Prince Impérial” was inaugurated on 1 June 1996 to commemorate the time Louis-Napoleon, only son of Napoléon III and his wife the Empress Eugenie, spent in South Africa before his untimely death at the hands of Zulu warriors on 1 June 1879. The route follows the footsteps of the pilgrimage made by […]
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from 07/10/2017 to 04/11/2018OtherNapoleon: Protector of Agriculture and Industry“During the English blockade, Napoleon I contributed greatly to the industrial and economic development of the North by passing decrees to promote the cultivation of sugar beet (1811) and the spinning of flax (1811 and 1812). The Chamber of Commerce of Lille wished to pay tribute to him by erecting a statue cast from the […]
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from 25/03/2017 to 26/03/2017Talk, TourA two-day “cultural fitness” with … NapoleonA two-day “cultural fitness” with … Napoleon. This event organised by “Landandé” Committee on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, focused entirely on the battle of Bricchetto, which took place on 21 April 1796 and ended the first phase of Piedmontese Italian campaign. The program of the two days includes A debate at 9pm on […]