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ArticleLetter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Archdeacon Lucien Bonaparte, his great-uncle, on the death of Charles Bonaparte (n°4, March 1785)This early letter written by Napoleon is taken from the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte, Volume I: Les apprentissages, 1784-1797 (edited by Fayard/Fondation Napoléon, 2004) (English version based on a 1961 translation by John Eldred Howard in Letters and Documents of Napoleon: Vol I: The… -
ArticleDocument > Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his father, Charles Bonaparte (September 1784)This early letter (handwritten missive, French Archives Nationales, 400 AP 137) written by Napoleon is taken from the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte, Volume I: Les apprentissages, 1784-1797 (edited by Fayard/Fondation Napoléon, 2004) (English version based on a 1961 translation by John Eldred Howard in…
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from 17/08/2019 to 18/08/2019Family, Re-enactmentNapoleon 250: event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youthTo celebrate the 250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth*, the Waterloo Memorial 1815 is organising an event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youth. This event will immerse visitors in the lives of civilians and soldiers at the end of the 18th century, with demonstrations of crafts such as leather tanning, basket weaving and embroidery as well as […]
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from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019Other250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth: various eventsMarch-December 2019, in Autun (and on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the arrival of Joseph and Napoleon): IMPERIAL YEAR. With talks, exhibitions, guided tours, theatre,… Read more (link in French) May-October 2019, Ajaccio: NAPOLEON YEAR. With an exhibition about Mathilde Bonaparte at the Palais Fesch Museum; an exhibition focusing on Napoleon in contemporary […]
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from 05/04/2019 to 07/07/2019ExhibitionAjaccio, the childhood of Napoleon. 1769-1799Presentation of the exhibition by the museum On 15 August 2019, it will be 250 years since Napoleon was born in Ajaccio. The House, which now bears the name of his family, has become a national museum and was indeed the place where his family lived. A noble family among the most prominent in the […]
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from 18/05/2019 to 15/12/2019ExhibitionFil rouge [Painting Rueil-Malmaison red]Musée d’histoire locale Place du 11 novembre 1918 92500 Rueil-Malmaison Tel: 01 47 32 32 66 50 website The Fondation Napoléon is lending the following works from its collection to the city of Rueil-Malmaison. Annuaire dramatique ou étrennes théâtrales. Paris, Madame Cavanach, 1807. La Constitution française décrétée par l’Assemblée Nationale Constituante aux années 1789, 1790, […]
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ArticleQueen Victoria’s impressions of Napoleon III (memorandum dated 2nd May 1855)Memorandum by Queen Victoria Extract from THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA: A SELECTION FROM HER MAJESTY’S CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 AND 1861 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING, EDITED BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON, M.A. AND VISCOUNT ESHER, G.C.V.O., K.C.B. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III.—1854-1861 LONDON, JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1908, pages 122-26 […]
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PaintingPortrait of Marshal LannesThis portrait of Jean Lannes (1769-1809), today held at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris, was painted in 1834 by Julie-Louise Volpelière. It was commissioned from the painter for the future Musée d’Histoire de France de Versailles, a project of King Louis-Philippe’s. In this work, Volpelière was in fact copying a portrait made by Baron […]