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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]