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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 […]

Two major events took place between the summer of 1870 and the summer of 1871: the war against Prussia from September 1870 to January 1871, then the Commune from March to May 1871. Paris was subjected to two successive sieges and the Fort d’Issy, which commanded the weakest part of the capital’s walls, took centre […]

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 […]

19 May – 18 July 2021 More than 150 works will be on display, including historical and never-before-seen gems, a hundred or so paintings, works of art, letters and archival documents, as well as personal and rare objects related to this beautiful love story, the aim being to plunge visitors into the heart of 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 […]

Presentation of the exhibition During the revolutionary period, the nationalisation of Church property and part of the nobility’s property enabled the State to become a major landowner. During the First Empire, the new regime was able to undertake important urban reforms that had often been thought of under the Ancien Régime, but never materialised due […]

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 […]

On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St Helena. By sending the former Emperor of France into exile, the European monarchs had every reason to hope that this adventurer and upstart would soon be forgotten. But he managed to remind himself. Over the last five and a half years of his […]

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 […]