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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 13/09/2022 to 15/12/2022Concert, Talk“Napoleonica® les conferences”: autumn program of talks, musical lectures and meetingsIn addition to our classic Tuesday talks at 6pm at the Fondation Napoléon, Napoleonica® les conferences now offers two new formats. – A new formula of meetings called “Chemins de traverses”, the “premiere” of which will take place on 22 November, at 5.30pm, at the Fondation Napoléon (7 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris). – Musical talks […]
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from 05/10/2021 to 06/10/2021Concert[2021 Année Napoléon] Death and Imperial Transfiguration: Napoleon’s Triumph(s)Programme of the two concerts Triomphe(s) de Napoléon 5 and 6 October 2021, at 8pm – Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides Book your tickets! Académie symphonique de Paris (Jérôme Treille, direction) Chœur Les Voix impériales Soloist : Véronique Chevallier Andrew Dewar, organ Thierry Lentz, narrator Peter Hicks, direction La Marseillaise (version Berlioz) Allons enfants, Amour sacré, Guerriers pour toujours dans l’histoire… […]
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from 25/09/2021 to 26/09/2021Family, Re-enactmentLiving History weekend at Hole Park, Kentevent webpage Hole Park Benenden Road, Rolvenden, Kent, UK TN17 4JA Contact: Edward Barham Tel: 01580 241 344 Mob: 07976 241794 Email: info@holepark.com Email: events@holepark.com Admission Prices Adults £9.00 Children £1 (5 – 16 years)
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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 17/08/2019 to 18/08/2019Family, Re-enactmentNapoleon 250: event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youthTo celebrate the 250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth*, the Waterloo Memorial 1815 is organising an event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youth. This event will immerse visitors in the lives of civilians and soldiers at the end of the 18th century, with demonstrations of crafts such as leather tanning, basket weaving and embroidery as well as […]
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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 29/06/2019 to 13/07/2019Concert, Theatrical EventDonizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” (Saratoga Springs, New York)Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” is a 1840 comic opera about a French orphan who falls for a young Swiss soldier during the Napoleonic wars. This new production which opens Opera Saratoga’s 2019 Summer Festival will feature the Argentinian bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini in the role of Tonio. (Performances: 29 June, 1, 7 and 13 July at the […]
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from 01/05/2019 to 05/05/2019Concert, FestivalSt Helena Music Festival: Napoleon and George IIIFestival Programme Wednesday 1 May – Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral at 7pm Free entry This concert will include piano solos, quartets, a cappella and soprano pieces, reviving music from the the Napoleonic and Georgian periods. Programme: Grétry, « La Victoire est à nous », quartet a cappella (1 min) Anon., “Hearts of oak”, unison quartet with piano […]