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ArticleQu’est-ce que le Second Empire ?L’Empire ressuscité par le suffrage universel masculin Le 2 décembre 1852, l’Empire est rétabli, conséquence du plébiscite des 21 et 22 novembre 1852, approuvé par sept millions huit cent mille électeurs. « Le nouveau règne que vous inaugurez aujourd’hui n’a pas pour origine, comme tant d’autres dans l’histoire, la violence, la conquête ou la ruse. […]
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from 27/06/2019 to 30/09/2019ExhibitionAn evening with Princess Mathilde – A Bonaparte and the ArtsFrench title: “Un soir chez la princesse Mathilde, une Bonaparte et les Arts” The exhibition is organised into various sections evoking her Italian exile, her own artistic career, her various residences and especially the relationship between her artistic tastes and her literary salon, reviewed in the light of new documents. Section 1: A “Historical Salon”, Mathilde, […]
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ArticleBullet Point # 26 – Who were Napoleon’s parents?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, June 2019, translation RY) -
PaintingPosthumous portrait of Charles BonaparteThis posthumous portrait of Charles Bonaparte is by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – more commonly known as Girodet. The artist painted two versions, the first in 1805 (presented in this article) and another version in 1806 (which can be seen here). The two – almost identical – paintings are now held, respectively, at the Château de […]
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from 29/06/2019 to 13/07/2019Concert, Theatrical EventDonizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” (Saratoga Springs, New York)Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” is a 1840 comic opera about a French orphan who falls for a young Swiss soldier during the Napoleonic wars. This new production which opens Opera Saratoga’s 2019 Summer Festival will feature the Argentinian bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini in the role of Tonio. (Performances: 29 June, 1, 7 and 13 July at the […]
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ObjectBust of Pius VIIThis bust of the Pope who consecrated Napoleon I, made by Antonio Canova, is held at the Château de Versailles. The marble likeness echoes the Pope’s brief visit to Louis XIV’s château, on 3 January 1805 (see here an account of the Pope’s visit to Versailles). Pius VII had been invited to Paris by Napoleon to […]
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Timeline1769-1793: Napoleon Bonaparte’s early yearsTheme(s) : Imperial Family
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ArticleTalking Point with Pierre Branda: identitiesThe Bonaparte family had Italian or more precisely Tuscan origins, and they never completely broke with this original identity. Indeed Ajaccio, the city where the family settled and grew up almost exclusively, was for a long time a Genoese enclave on island territory. Furthermore, Napoleon’s…