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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 […]

200th anniversary of the publication of the “Memorial of St Helena” by Las Cases.   Access to the auditorium is via 3, rue Mazarine 75006 Paris Metros: line 7, Pont Neuf; line 10, Mabillon. REGISTRATION DETAILS An entrance fee of €20/person is required. • Registrations will begin on 15 June 2023. • Requests will be processed in order of arrivalfrom […]

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 […]

The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era will be held 2-4 February 2023, at Fort Worth, Texas. The Conference hotel is the Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown. In Session 1B: “Napoleon, Islam and the Question of Religion” Peter Hicks (International Affairs manager at the Fondation Napoléon) will speak on the following topic: Talking […]

Conference: Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 at Camden Place (last home of Napoleon III), Chislehurst (Kent), UK This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi […]