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from 09/01/2023 to 15/01/2023Conference, Guided TourRemembering Napoleon III: Unlocking the secrets of Camden PlaceConference: Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 at Camden Place (last home of Napoleon III), Chislehurst (Kent), UK This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi […]
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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 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 09/03/2022 to 28/08/2022Exhibition, Guided TourRosa Bonheur: The Museum of missing worksThroughout her life, Rosa Bonheur kept almost all of her sketches, thus constituting a kind of “database”. These private creations – drawings, oils, watercolours, pastels, caricatures, comic strips – were sometimes notes that she took at random from her travels, sometimes preparatory studies for a particular painting, or even illustrations of great myths. She always […]
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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 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 11/07/2020 to 11/10/2020Exhibition, Guided TourAnd Eugenie created Biarritz, an imperial townPresentation This summer, Biarritz pays homage to its greatest muse, Empress Eugenie de Montijo: it was for her that her husband, Emperor Napoleon III, had the Imperial Palace built in 1854, which became the Hôtel du Palais, one of the jewels of the city. The exhibition is an invitation to discover more about the periods […]
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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 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 […]