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ArticleBullet Point #24 – Did Napoleon really “rough it” with his soldiers while on campaign?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, April 2019, translation RY) -
from 01/05/2019 to 05/05/2019Concert, FestivalSt Helena Music Festival: Napoleon and George IIIFestival Programme Wednesday 1 May – Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral at 7pm Free entry This concert will include piano solos, quartets, a cappella and soprano pieces, reviving music from the the Napoleonic and Georgian periods. Programme: Grétry, « La Victoire est à nous », quartet a cappella (1 min) Anon., “Hearts of oak”, unison quartet with piano […]
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05/05/2019CommemorationCommemoration of the death of Napoleon I: Memorial ceremony on St HelenaProgramme: 10.15am Gathering at the observation Point 10.30am Beginning of the Ceremony Prayers led by Father David Musgrave 2 minutes of silence with Last Post & Reveille played by Reverend Graeme Beckett National Anthems by Professor Peter Hicks Blessing From 11am to 3pm At Longwood, free entrance to the Museum, and Picnic in the Longwood […]
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ArticleTalking Point with Thierry Lentz: “Napoleon is not at the Invalides”, a “historic” piece of fake newsNapoleon died on St Helena on 5 May 1821. His mortal remains were buried on the island four days later, where they remained until October 1840, when a French delegation came to collect them and bring them back to France, where they were laid to rest at the Invalides. This is what every history enthusiast […]
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from 14/03/2019 to 31/12/2019Exhibition, OtherBicentenary of the Births of Victoria and AlbertLondon The V&A Museum (London, UK) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s births with a season of events and displays, including a new addition to the jewellery collection – Queen Victoria’s stunning sapphire and diamond coronet (video), designed for her by Albert, and on display from 11 April Victoria and Albert’s Museum (13 […]
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ObjectPrince Bonaparte’s HerbariumThe University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR-CERESE) carried out a crowdfunding campaign in the spring of 2018 in order to supplement the funding that the eReCoNat programme had obtained for the digitisation of Prince Roland Bonaparte’s exceptional herbarium. A 13m-long industrial scanning bench was installed amongst the herbarium’s antique furniture in order to digitise the […]
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from 09/11/2018 to 28/04/2019Exhibition, TalkRoger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea, 1855This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Roger Fenton’s pioneering photographs of the Crimean War, taken in 1855. Fenton was already an accomplished and respected photographer when he was sent by the publishers Agnew’s to photograph a war that pitched Britain, France and Turkey as allies against Russia. Arriving several months after the […]
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PublicationSecuring Europe after Napoleon 1815 and the New European Security CulturePublisher’s presentation: After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation, ambassadorial […]
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ArticleBullet Point # 23 – Did Napoleon’s Marshals betray him at Fontainebleau, in 1814?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, March 2019, translation Rory Maclean) -
PaintingA photographic portrait of Comte Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892), intendant des Beaux-Arts (1853), honorary chamberlain of the Emperor (1859)It was the job of photographer Léon Crémière (1831-1913) to photograph the members of the “Maison de l’Empereur” [the Emperor’s Household], and the shot here is his magnificent portrait (1861) of Émilien de Nieuwerkerke, an essential figure in the artistic life of the Second Empire, who at the time had been intendant des Beaux-Arts since […]