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14/12/2023Talk, Theatrical EventNapoleonica® les conférences musicales > “the vaudevilles on 18 brumaire an VIII” by Paola ParazzoloPresentation The day after the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire, the theatrical world was in a hurry to celebrate Bonaparte with occasional couplets and impromptus that exalted the general, blackened the Jacobins and gleefully stigmatised the instability of the Directoire government. There were so many plays dealing with the “Journée de Saint-Cloud” that state censorship […]
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12/10/2023TalkNapoleonica® les conférences musicales > “Napoleonic Drums, a 20th century myth”, by Thierry BouzardPresentation From 1907 onwards, Napoleonic drums began to emerge as part of the imperial epic. With the development of the recording industry, they became very popular and became part of history. The origins of the myth lie in the meeting between Édouard Philippe and Charles Gourdin, drum major of the Republican Guard. The First World […]
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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 10/01/2023 to 27/06/2023TalkWinter and spring 2023 programme of Napoleonica® lecturesHere is the updated program (as of 21 February) for the winter and spring 2023 sessions of Napoleonica® lectures. (*3 talks have been reprogrammed) 10 January, (for the 150th anniversary of the death of Napoleon III): “the sad medical demise of Napoleon III“, by Alain Goldcher 17 January (for the bicentenary of the death of […]
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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 13/09/2022 to 15/12/2022Concert, Talk“Napoleonica® les conferences”: autumn program of talks, musical lectures and meetings
In 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 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 05/04/2022 to 21/06/2022TalkSpring-summer programme of “Napoleonica® les conférences”, the Fondation Napoléon talksHere 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 […]
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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 […]