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Here is the programme for spring-summer programme of talks (in French) from 5 April 5 to 21 June 2022: “Paris in the time of Napoleon”, by Irène Delage and Chantal Prévot; “Napoleon, the forgotten films”, by David Chanteranne; “Lucien Bonaparte, a Republican Prince”, by Cédric Lewandowski, Fondation Napoléon  Jury Prize winner in 2020; “The war […]

The year 1809 saw the invasion of the Austrian Empire by the armies of Napoleonic France. On 13 May, a little over a month after the beginning of the campaign, Vienna was occupied by French troops for the second time since 1805. In the following months two major battles took place near the Habsburg capital: […]

The death of Napoleon in far off St Helena in May 1821 brought to a crescendo twenty-five years of English-language publishing on the Emperor. Thousands of pages, including the Emperor’s will, Barry O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile, and Emmanuel de Las Cases’ “Journal of Private Life and Conversations of Napoleon” (known in French as the “Memorial”) […]

On July 11, 1920, Eugenie de Montijo, a personality who marked her time, died in Madrid. A century later, the Château de Compiègne, where the last Empress of the French lived part of her life, pays homage to her through a series of events: exhibition of her most beautiful dresses in the ballroom gallery, a […]

  Read more about the uprising. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Wellington Orbit Station Road Wellington TF1 1BY UK To learn more, call in to the Wellington Orbit in Station Road, visit wellingtonorbit.co.uk or call 01952 743377.   £4.50 (incl. drink)

The 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 […]

The 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, […]

This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Roger Fenton’s pioneering photographs of the Crimean War, taken in 1855. Fenton was already an accomplished and respected photographer when he was sent by the publishers Agnew’s to photograph a war that pitched Britain, France and Turkey as allies against Russia.  Arriving several months after the […]

 Monday 20th August at 9.30 pm: “Elisa a Palazzo: from rigour to splendour”, Velia Gini Bartoli and Simonetta Giurlani Pardini. The Palazzo Ducale has been the centre of the political power of the city for centuries, but only with Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi does it assume the appearance it has today, and only with her profound and […]

“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 […]