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PublicationArenenberg. Königin Hortense, Napoléon und Kaiserin Eugénie: Ein Familiensitz Arenenberg(French-German edition) Title in French: Arenenberg. La reine Hortense, Napoléon III et l’impératrice Eugénie : une maison de famille Christine Egli, Deputy Director of the Napoleon Museum in Thurgau, offers us a bilingual French-German version of the history of the imperial estate of Arenenberg (now the…
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Object / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st Empire“Dirge composed expressly for the Funeral of the Emperor Napoleon by Ch. McCarthy of the late St Helena Band, May 1821” – piano reductionIn a note in A St Helena Who’s Who (1919), Arnold Chaplin, a renowned specialist on the St Helena episode, recorded that a musical lieutenant of the 66th Regiment, Charles McCarthy, had composed a “dirge” for the Emperor’s funeral. Chaplin also reported that a score…
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ArticleTalking Point with Peter Hicks > The Musical Triumphs of NapoleonFor the Fondation Napoléon, the bicentennial twenty years (2000-2021) really got going properly in 2004 with a major international conference, the first ever exhibition of the collection, but most of all (and I would say this wouldn’t I?) the concert commemorating Napoleon’s consecration and coronation…
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In picturesPortrait of William Balcombe
This portrait of William Balcombe comes from a private collection and was lent to the Napoleonmuseum Thurgau for the temporary exhibition 1821. The end of Napoleon. St Helena, Arenenberg and the birth of a legend (in 2021). On the back, a water stain has unfortunately erased part of the name of the person represented, but […]
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In picturesPlan of Longwood: Habitation of the Emperor Napoleon on the Isle of St Helena as it was towards the end of 1816
Click here to see this image in HD. This plan of Longwood is entitled “Habitation de l’Empereur Napoléon à l’Isle S. Hélène telle qu’elle était vers la fin de l’année 1816” [“Habitation of the Emperor Napoleon on the Isle of St Helena as it was towards the end of 1816”]. It is signed: “Napoleon Baciocchi […]
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from 28/10/2021 to 30/10/2021ConferenceHistory, project and heritage: the construction of architectural identity (Milan, Europe 1796 | 1848)
Scholarly committee: Micaela Antonucci (UniBo), Federico Bucci (Polimi), Antonino De Francesco (Unimi), Jean-Philippe Garric (Paris 1), Michele Luminati (Universität Luzern), Carlo Mambriani (UniPr), France Nerlich (Inha), Susanna Pasquali (Roma 1), Dominique Poulot (Paris 1), Francesco Repishti (Polimi), Letizia Tedeschi (Archivio del Moderno-USI) ► full programme (pdf) PROGRAMME / PROGRAMMA MILANO 28 october 2021 Politecnico di Milano […]
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PaintingPhotograph: Ruins of the Tuileries Palace, Grand Vestibule and Place du Carrousel (May 1871)The Palais des Tuileries A few months after the fall of the Second Empire and the establishment of the Third Republic, Paris, the so-called City of Light, was lit up by the fires of a popular insurrection. The Communards [e.g. the Parisian insurgents], knowing they were…
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ArticleTalking Point with Pierre Branda: Napoleon’s Hat! Again…HIS bicorn hat remains the quintessential Napoleonic object. As soon as it’s announced that one is to be sold at auction, collectors start getting into a flap, the press spreads the news. Then comes the killer question: is it authentic? On 27 October 2021, in…