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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”: […]

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, […]

The town of La Roche-sur-Yon (France) is organising an exhibition entitled “The Emperor in private: Napoleon I – husband, father, lover” for which the Fondation Napoléon is lending ten objects from its collection. On the occasion of this exhibition at the Museum of that town, a catalogue will also be published with the support of […]

Programme (Palazzo Reale Naples): 4 pm: A presentation of the book A passo di carica, Murat, re di Napoli, ed. Luigi Mascilli Migliorini A presentation of the book Murat, Naples, Europe by Nicoletta Marini of Armenia Three brief interventions: Thierry Lentz, Renata De Lorenzo, Renata Lattuada Presentation of the MurApp smartphone application, Murat’s Naples, with […]

Programme : Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène [Napoleon on St Helena] (Thierry Lentz). Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène : témoignage et manifeste politique [The Mémorial of St Helena: testimony and political manifesto] (Chantal Prévot) Le grand-maréchal Bertrand et ses Mémoires [Grand Marshal Bertrand and his Memoirs] (François Houdecek) Dans l’intimité de Napoléon : les témoignages d’Ali et de Marchand [Napoleon in […]

“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 […]

Programme 3 pm – Opening by Victor-André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, President of the Fondation Napoléon, and President of the Committee for the edition of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon 3.10 pm – Introduction by Professor Jean Tulard, member of the Institute, Vice-President of the Committee for the Edition of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon 3.30 […]

The conference aims at examining the relation between religion and politics from the French Revolution to the first half of the nineteenth century, by highlighting two historical phenomena: the sacralisation of politics and the politicisation of religion. By considering the opposition, the combination and the overlapping between the sacred and the politics, and thanks to […]

Programme (see here for full details of talks): 10.00am Registration 10.30am – 11.30am Brexit at Waterloo / John Morewood 11.30am – 11.45am Break 11.45am – 12.45pm Frozen in Time / Paul F. Brunyee 12.45pm – 1.00pm View the Siborne model / War Gallery 1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm – 3.00pm Thank God we have the Navy / Carole Divall 3.00pm […]

Conversazioni Napoleoniche (Napoleonic Talks) 2017 (in Italian)   Free entrance Programme: Monday 21 August, Role of Elisa Bonaparte Baciochi as precursor in terms of health and the use of society to establish consensus, by Velia Gini Bartoli and Simonetta Pardini Tuesday 22 August, Napoleon’s Hat, an exercise in image manipulation?, by Peter Hicks Wednesday 23 […]