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from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019Other250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth: various eventsMarch-December 2019, in Autun (and on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the arrival of Joseph and Napoleon): IMPERIAL YEAR. With talks, exhibitions, guided tours, theatre,… Read more (link in French) May-October 2019, Ajaccio: NAPOLEON YEAR. With an exhibition about Mathilde Bonaparte at the Palais Fesch Museum; an exhibition focusing on Napoleon in contemporary […]
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from 08/12/2018 to 30/03/2019Exhibition“I volti di Maria Luigia” [The faces of Marie-Louise]The exhibition is the first to gather such a large number of printed portraits of the sovereign: the exhibtion also tries to answer the question why there were so many produced at the time: the need to present the new French Empress, and then later the need to forget the uncomfortable role of “wife of […]
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from 17/11/2018 to 10/03/2019ExhibitionFurniture with secrets and secrets of FurnitureThe ingenuity of the cabinetmakers at the end of the Ancien Régime, combined with the German taste for mechanical furniture, gave rise to skilful creations, sometimes very mysterious. This taste persisted into the 19th century, as brilliantly demonstrated by the chest of drawers and the secretary of cabinetmaker Simon-Nicolas Mansion (1773-1854), presented to Napoleon I […]
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from 09/11/2018 to 28/04/2019Exhibition, TalkRoger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea, 1855This 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 […]
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from 20/10/2018 to 10/03/2019ExhibitionImperial BoxesThe “Imperial Boxes” show presents nearly eighty objects, both small and large, from the Fondation Napoléon’s collection, most of them probably everyday items (boxes for various purposes, inkwells, crockery, portraits, and travel necéssaires).These objects highlight another part of Napoleonic history: not the battles and conquests, but the sumptuous life of the imperial court and the […]
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from 16/10/2018 to 03/02/2019ExhibitionThe Nadars – A photographic legendThe Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris proposes the first major exhibition (at its François Mitterrand site) dedicated to the three members of the Nadar family. Félix Nadar (1820-1910), his brother Adrien Tournachon (1825-1903) and his son Paul Nadar (1856-1939) were all photographers, painters, artists and inventors… Some 300 pieces reveal the specificities of each of […]
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from 02/10/2018 to 19/01/2019ExhibitionBâtir sous le Second Empire (Construction during the Second Empire)This autumn, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (link in English) in Paris [France’s National Art school, ENSBA] is exhibiting thirty-four watercolours (from its collection of more than 40,000 architectural drawings) made by aspiring architects during the Second Empire (link in French). This exhibition “Bâtir sous le Second Empire” also reflects the architectural tastes as well as the […]