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From 15 October 2021 to 13 February 2022, the exhibition “The Legend of the Eagle in LEGO® and historical works” will take place at the Atelier Grognard in Rueil-Malmaison. As part of the commemorations of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon, the town of Rueil-Malmaison presents a new travelling exhibition at the Atelier Grognard […]

The exhibition “In the footsteps of Napoleon I at the Monnaie de Paris” invites visitors to discover both the artistic, technical and scientific role of the Monnaie de Paris during the Directoire, the Consulate and the Empire and its role in the construction and dissemination of the Napoleonic legend during the July Monarchy and the […]

Napoleon Bonaparte is known as an outstanding leader in war, a tireless worker and for rebuilding work in France and beyond, but he is less known as a lover of arts and crafts. However, he was perfectly aware of the strategic but also economic importance of furnishing the imperial residences. Napoleon and the decorative arts […]

Entitled “Napoléon et Bertrand, le retour des héros” [“Napoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroes”], this retrospective will bring together the emblematic works of the two men, from their stay on St Helena between 1815 and 1821, until the Return of Napoleon’s Mortal Remains (“Retour des Cendres”) in 1840. Paintings, prints and engravings, furniture, […]

Marking the bicentenary of his death, the Napoléon exhibition explores the unlikely story of a complex character who was at once admired and controversial, victorious and conquered, heroic and tragic; a dramatic story that continues to fascinate our contemporaries to this day. It will highlight his political and cultural legacies that have profoundly impacted certain countries, chief […]

150 years ago, the Val-de-Marne region was the scene of the most important battle of the siege of Paris by the Germans. On 30 November 1870, nearly 60,000 French soldiers crossed the Marne River in front of Champigny and Bry-sur-Marne in an attempt to break the iron ring that the Germans had formed around the […]

Other events at the Musée de l’Armée for this ‘2021 Année Napoléon’ include: Academic conference > “Napoléon n’est plus” [“Napoleon is no more”],  postponed to 21-23 September 2021 organised in partnership with the Fondation Napoléon and the Fondation Dosne-Thiers Fondation Napoléon Concerts > “Triomphes de Napoléon” postponed to 5 and 6 October 2021 co-production Fondation Napoléon/Musée […]

Dedicated to the final moments of Napoleon Bonaparte’s epic deeds, the Rome Napoleonic Museum’s exhibition aims to illustrate the events of the Emperor’s exile and death on St Helena through an evocative visual narrative, constructed using prints, watercolours and sculptural and numismatic effigies. The exhibition is divided into four sections: St Helena, the last island […]

From 3 April 2021 to 9 January 2022, Napoleon – Beyond the Myth retraces, in almost 3,000 m² of museum space at the Liège-Guillemins station, the major stages that shaped the life and sometimes the myth of the Emperor, with the help of historians from the University of Liège and the patronage of the Fondation Napoléon Discover […]

A presentation of about a hundred drawings and plans from the State Secretariat collection. “Among the dozens of dossiers delivered every day to the Emperor’s cabinet, many were accompanied by plans, drawings or maps specially made to assist the the Head of State’s decision-making. Some of these documents are signed by the greatest names in […]