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Presentation The day after the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire, the theatrical world was in a hurry to celebrate Bonaparte with occasional couplets and impromptus that exalted the general, blackened the Jacobins and gleefully stigmatised the instability of the Directoire government. There were so many plays dealing with the “Journée de Saint-Cloud” that state censorship […]

Presentation From 1907 onwards, Napoleonic drums began to emerge as part of the imperial epic. With the development of the recording industry, they became very popular and became part of history. The origins of the myth lie in the meeting between Édouard Philippe and Charles Gourdin, drum major of the Republican Guard. The First World […]

Presentation Event in French Logistics are essential to the waging of war. This concept, which emerged during the imperial period, encompasses all the transport and supply activities required for military operations, at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Despite its central importance, it is a subject that has often been neglected by imperial military history, which […]

Highlights of the week include : Sunday 28 May 2023: Exhibition of works by Rory Klopper inspired by French philosopher & intellectual Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (1897 – 1962). Saturday 27 May; the Fête de l’Abeille Monday 29 mai: Guided visit to the Prince Imperial Exhibition in the national uMsunduzi Museum Tuesday 30 May, 10 am: Presentation […]

Here is the updated program (as of 21 February) for the winter and spring 2023 sessions of Napoleonica® lectures. (*3 talks have been reprogrammed) 10 January, (for the 150th anniversary of the death of Napoleon III): “the sad medical demise of Napoleon III“, by Alain Goldcher 17 January (for the bicentenary of the death of […]