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At 2pm on 18th June 1815 Serjeant Francis Styles charged with Wellington’s Heavy Cavalry against the massed ranks of French infantry who were attacking the allied position. Styles and his Squadron Leader, Captain Alexander Kennedy Clarke, found themselves in the midst of desperate fighting where they seized one of the two Eagles captured at Waterloo, […]

The influence of Empress Eugenie on the fashion of her time is undeniable. Her support for Charles Frederick Worth, the first “grand-couturier” in history, the famous “political dresses” that she insisted on wearing to official events and her very good taste were the driving force behind the nascent fashion industry. The Château de Pierrefonds was […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]