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from 01/07/2023 to 03/09/2023ExhibitionNapoleon Playmobil® at Brienne-le-ChâteauThe exhibition will thrill the public and the most nostalgic among you will undoubtedly be plunged back into memories of your childhood. Through the marvellous world of Playmobil, visitors will be taken on a journey through the life of Napoleon all summer long, thanks to this toy that has been handed down through the generations. […]
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from 24/06/2023 to 02/10/2023ExhibitionPlon-Plon, A Bonaparte in red and goldAfter the exhibition devoted to Princess Mathilde in 2019, the Palais Fesch-musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio is focusing on another major figure in the world of the arts during the Second Empire, namely Prince Napoleon (1822-1891), son of King Jérôme, brother of the Princess and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III. Posterity has remembered him by […]
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19/09/2023Study Day“Rencontres militaires de Napoleonica® la revue” > Napoleonic logisticsPresentation 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 […]
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from 27/05/2023 to 27/08/2023ExhibitionNapoleon in Playmobil® at AutunWhat could be more remarkable than the life of Napoleon, who came from his native Corsica at the age of 10 and, in 1779, did his first apprenticeship on French soil at the Collège d’Autun (where he would later return)? From Ajaccio to St Helena, the story of the man who became the first French […]
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Object / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st EmpireA lyre-guitar (Pleyel, 1809)In 1801, a German correspondent for the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung [General Musical Newspaper] reporting from Paris wrote about a new instrument that had “suddenly become so popular in France”(“Paris has hardly ever hunted for the newest with greater zeal […] than it now chases after the oldest (from the times of Greek and Roman art, […]
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from 03/06/2023 to 01/10/2023ExhibitionIngres, the artist and his princesPresentation by the château A successful artist in the first half of the 19th century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was an unclassifiable and often visionary painter. Behind his apparent classicism lies an originality and a quest for perfection that continue to fascinate. How did this success come about? With the advent of the July Monarchy (1830-1848), […]
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from 15/11/2023 to 16/11/2023ConferenceThe Memorial of St Helena, conference on the 200th anniversary of its publication200th 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 […]
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ArticleTalking Point with Peter Hicks: The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, 2023In 1534, king Henry VIII granted Cambridge University Press a charter to publish, thereby rendering it one of the oldest printing and publishing houses in the world. At the end of the 19th century, the regius professor of Modern History at that university, but also… -
from 27/05/2023 to 03/06/2023CommemorationFrench Week 2023Highlights 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 […]
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from 03/06/2023 to 17/09/2023ExhibitionDuroc, images of a destinyTo mark the 210th anniversary of the death of General Duroc (1813-2023), illustrious figure in the history of the town of Pont-à-Mousson, the municipal museum “Au fil du Papier”, in partnership with the Fondation Napoléon, is devoting a brand new exhibition to him, running from 3 June to 17 September 2023. Duroc, the Grand maréchal […]