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19/09/2023Study Day“Rencontres militaires de Napoleonica® la revue” > Napoleonic logisticsPresentation Event in French Logistics are essential to the waging of war. This concept, which emerged during the imperial period, encompasses all the transport and supply activities required for military operations, at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Despite its central importance, it is a subject that has often been neglected by imperial military history, which […]
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from 27/05/2023 to 03/06/2023CommemorationFrench Week 2023Highlights of the week include : Sunday 28 May 2023: Exhibition of works by Rory Klopper inspired by French philosopher & intellectual Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (1897 – 1962). Saturday 27 May; the Fête de l’Abeille Monday 29 mai: Guided visit to the Prince Imperial Exhibition in the national uMsunduzi Museum Tuesday 30 May, 10 am: Presentation […]
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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 -
10/09/2022Study DayWaterloo Study Day 2022: The life and times of the Duke of WellingtonSaturday 10th September 10:15 Dr Martin Howard: Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798 – 1805. 11:15 Dr Mark Thompson: The controversial Allied siege of San Sebastián in 1813. Lunch 1:30 Dr Mark Sadler: The King’s Bold Hussars and the Battle of Sahagun. 2:30 Paul Chamberlain: Notorious Correspondence – General Edouard Simon and the […]
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from 22/08/2022 to 24/08/2022Festival, Talk« Four Englishmen visiting Napoleon on Elba, 1814 », by Peter HicksFestival presentation “The last love, an English witness who sheds new light on Napoleon on St Helena and the cinema on the Napoleonic epic” (“L’ultimo amore, un testimone inglese che getta nuova luce su Napoleone a Sant’Elena e il cinema sull’epica napoleonica) will be the theme of the “Tre serate con Napoleone” 2022. These events […]
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from 18/06/2021 to 31/10/2021Exhibition, FestivalNapoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroesEntitled “Napoléon et Bertrand, le retour des héros” [“Napoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroes”], this retrospective will bring together the emblematic works of the two men, from their stay on St Helena between 1815 and 1821, until the Return of Napoleon’s Mortal Remains (“Retour des Cendres”) in 1840. Paintings, prints and engravings, furniture, […]
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from 05/05/2021 to 09/05/2021CommemorationLIVE Commemorations of Napoleon’s Death on St HelenaOn 5, 6 and 9 May, wherever you are around the world, watch online the Bicentenary ceremonies. ► FOLLOW THE CEREMONIES LIVE Programme: (Times are given in GMT i.e. 1 hour behind London and 4 hours ahead of New York) – 5 May 2021: From 8am-4pm GMT, Laying of the personalised wreaths on the tomb* From 5pm GMT: Longwood House Gardens. Funeral march […]
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27/11/2020Study DayBonapartisme(s)Presentation The Chaire Napoléon continues its exploration of the circumstances and political consequences of Napoleon’s death in a series of study mornings. After the death itself and its contemporary echo (2018), the formation of the libero-bonapartist idea (2019), this third rendez-vous explores the Bonapartist ideas and facts. Programme 09:30 – Welcome 09:50 – The “Memorial”: […]
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from 07/03/2020 to 08/03/2020Festival, TalkEast Midlands Napoleonic DaysThe event will be hosted in the former drill hall of the South Notts Hussars (stair access). Named in reference to the period, not just to the man himself, the weekend will not only have a military focus; there will be costume balls as well as cannon balls! Saturday’s main event will be the NG13 […]
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from 07/09/2019 to 22/09/2019FestivalSarzana Napoleon Festival 7 – 22 Sept 2019The Sarzana Napoleon Festival (Italy) will with a programme of historical re-enactments, plays, Frsit Empire ball, book presentations, exhibitions, and a gastronomic food market of French Regional specialities. website in italian