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from 06/04/2018 to 18/06/2018ConcertConcert Cycle: words and music of the EmperorTo accompany the exhibition “Napoleon the Strategist” (see above), the Musée de l’Armée in Paris has organised a cycle of 14 concerts, from 5 April, designed to bring to life the atmosphere of battles and other sounds from the Napoleonic campaigns, with music composed during the Napoleonic period as well as later works that refer to it. From […]
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PublicationPrinciples of WarFirst English translation of Principes de la stratégie, développés par la relation de la campagne de 1796 en Allemagne Publisher’s presentation: An essential hole in knowledge of the art of warfare in the 1800s is now filled. Scholars and aficionados of warfare use strategic tomes to broaden their understanding of why certain countries’ armies took […]
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from 06/04/2018 to 22/07/2018ExhibitionNapoleon the StrategistPresentation by the Musée de l’Armée: In Spring 2018, following on from the presentation of Napoleon’s political vision with the 2013 exhibition “Napoleon and Europe”, and an exploration of his fall and his legend with “Napoleon on St Helena: his Fight for his Story” in 2016, in spring 2018 the Musée de l’Armée will be […]
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ArticleBullet Point #5 – Was the Egyptian Campaign one of Napoleon’s great successes?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 2018, English translation by Jenny Spencer with Rebecca Young) -
Press reviewNapoleon I Museum at Fontainebleau reopens 25 February 2018Installed in 1986 in the Louis XV wing of the Château de Fontainebleau, the Napoleon I Museum aims to “present the First Empire in its many facets” through a collection of more than 3000 works, combining the concepts of both “historical charge and decorative function”. Paintings or sculptures, portraits, weapons, artefacts, drawings or archival documents […]
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from 03/02/2018 to 04/03/2018ExhibitionThe Great Expedition: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and its impact on ArkansasThe territory included today’s Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, parts of Minnesota and Louisiana west of Mississippi River and big parts of North and northeastern New Mexico, South Dakota, northern Texas, some parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. It also tells the story of what became known as The Great Expedition, led by […]
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ArticleInside Line with Éric Teyssier: a genuine social phenomenonLike several thousand Frenchmen and women, I regularly take part in Napoleonic historical rec-enactments. Five or six times a year, in France and Europe, I put on my bearskin of the Grenadier 37th line regiment. Some of our fellow countrymen look condescendingly at these grown-up…