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from 01/08/2017 to 14/09/2017TalkNelson and Norfolk: talks programmeTuesday Lunchtime Talks – 12.30 – 1pm, booking not required 8 August Nelson in the Norfolk Archives – Frank Meeres, Norfolk Record Office. 22 August: Restoration of the Nelson Monument in Great Yarmouth – Michael Knights, former Historic Buildings Officer. 29 August: Nelson’s Shadow: Taking Norfolk’s Mariners out of Lord Nelson’s Mighty Shadow – Mark […]
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from 31/07/2017 to 01/08/2017Study DayNelson Norfolk Narratives -Writing Summer SchoolFor beginning and improving writers, this workshop runs over two days and continues on Tuesday 1 August, with local author and creative writing tutor Amanda Addison. All resources provided. The Nelson & Norfolk exhibition (Norwich Castle Museum, 29 July – 1 October) with its first class exhibits and beautiful works of art, along with class exercises and […]
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from 06/07/2017 to 02/09/2017Theatrical EventA night at Les InvalidesA sound and light show with as a backdrop the Hôtel des Invalides, the last resting place of Napoleon. From 14 June to 2 September, at 10:30 pm each night, except on Sundays English performance on Mondays and Thursdays French performance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays Website and tickets
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from 10/06/2017 to 11/06/2017Family, Re-enactmentRe-enactment of the Battle of MarengoBetween June 10 and June 11 a re-enactment of the Battle of Marengo will be taking place in Alessandria, Italy. 300 re-enactors will be coming to the city from France, Belgium, Austria and the Czech Republic, taking on the uniforms of the Austrian army and the French troops under Napoleon and bringing the battle to […]
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20/05/2017Theatrical EventNapoleon and St Helena“Napoleon on St Helena”, drawn from Ennio Coltorti’s translation of “La dernière salve”, a masterpiece signed by Jean Claude Brisville, represents with great tension and dramatic irony the clash between Napoleon and his jailer Hudson Lowe, with Ennio Coltorti (Napoleon), Roberto Mantovani (Hudson Lowe), Silvia Scozzi (soprano), Antonella Moles (pianoforte). Organized by the Cultural Association […]
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from 27/04/2017 to 28/04/2017Study DayFighting, suffering and death in the wars of the French Revolution and of the First EmpireThe principal languague of the event is French but at least one of the papers will be in English. Event organized by: CHERPA (IEP d’Aix-en-Provence), UMR 7268 ADèS Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique & Santé (faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France) Dates of the Symposium: 27 – 28 April 2017 in Marseille, France, at the Faculty of […]
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31/03/2017TalkNapoleon. Van Rusland tot WaterlooA talk by Johan Op de Beeck Het strafste verhaal uit de negentiende eeuw? Dat moet wel de ondergang van Napoleon zijn. Oud-journalist Johan Op de Beeck vertelt over de echte oorzaken van de napoleontische oorlogen: het economische conflict met het Verenigd Koninkrijk en het politieke conflict over de invloed van de Franse Revolutie. Beide […]
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31/03/2017Conference, Study DayCaroline Murat, Queen of Naples and art collector (in Rome) -
from 25/03/2017 to 26/03/2017Talk, TourA two-day “cultural fitness” with … NapoleonA two-day “cultural fitness” with … Napoleon. This event organised by “Landandé” Committee on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, focused entirely on the battle of Bricchetto, which took place on 21 April 1796 and ended the first phase of Piedmontese Italian campaign. The program of the two days includes A debate at 9pm on […]
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15/03/2017TalkImperial embroideriesIMPERIAL EMBROIDERY – on Wednesday, 15 March at 16.30 Bernard Chevallier, honorary director of the museum of Malmaison and Bois-Preau, specialist of furnishings and art of the First Empire, will give a talk on textiles treasures of the early nineteenth century. Palazzo Mansi, via Galli Tassi, n. 43, Lucca, Italy