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from 02/09/2020 to 15/11/2020Exhibition, TalkImperial elegance. Souvenirs from the wardrobe of Empress EugenieOn 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 […]
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from 11/05/2020 to 31/12/2020Exhibition, OtherCovid-19: Museums re-openingMusée Napoléon Thurgovie/Napoleonmuseum – Arenenberg (link in English) 12 May 2020 Musée de l’image à Épinal (link in French): 12 May 2020 Musée Masséna (link in French): 13 May 2020 Waterloo Memorial (link in English): 20 May 2020 Musée de la guerre de 1870 de Loigny-la-bataille (link in French): end of May 2020, opening with a new exhibition “Napoleon […]
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from 26/07/2019 to 31/12/2020OtherExperience the “Retour des cendres” in 3-D at the Arc de TriompheThe Arc de Triomphe was ordered by Napoleon I in 1806. Exiled to St Helena in 1815, the Emperor died 15 years before the monument was completed (in 1836). It was in a spirit of reconciliation between all French people that King Louis-Philippe decided, in 1840, to have the Emperor’s body brought back to France on board the famous frigate Belle […]