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InterviewPierre Branda: thanks to his clandestine writings “instead of being forgotten as the British government had hoped, the emperor Napoleon was still being talked about” in Europe (May 2021)
In 1817 and 1818, Napoleon had three works published in London in order to mobilise public opinion for his return to Europe. Pierre Branda details this extraordinary “literary breakout” in his Écrits clandestins, the new title in “La Bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène” series published by Perrin*. (Interview by Irène Delage, May 2021). napoleon.org: In your new book, […]
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ArticleTalking Point with Christina Egli > Napoleon’s tomb … in Arenenberg, in the Swiss canton of ThurgauOn 18 June 1821, Hortense de Beauharnais sent a letter from Arenenberg to Napoleon Sire, At last, after many years, I have found an opportunity which gives me hope that my letter will reach Your Majesty and bring him the expression of my feelings. Monsieur…
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InterviewFrançois Houdecek: With General Bertrand’s St Helena Cahiers or notebooks, “Here we are at Napoleon’s bedside at Longwood, as he breathes his last”.A brand new edition of General Bertrand’s Cahiers de Sainte-Hélène [St Helena Cahiers or Notebooks], revised, completed and annotated by François Houdecek, (a specialist in the Correspondence of Napoleon I) has just been published (in French) by Perrin in the collection “Bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène”, under…
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Painting“Allegory of the exile and death of Napoleon I on St Helena” or “Napoleon’s tomb”This small black and white postcard is a photograph of a painting (now lost) by Horace Vernet, painted in July 1821 immediately after learning of the death, two months earlier, of Napoleon I. Vernet was a fervent Bonapartist and his best-known Napoleonic works are Napoleon I reviewing…
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Press reviewSale of a manuscript dictated by Napoleon and bearing his corrections on the battle of Austerlitz (January 2021)In January 2021, the beginning of an exceptional year of commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I, the press worldwide reported on an offer for sale of an unpublished manuscript, dictated and corrected by Napoleon himself, on the Battle of Austerlitz. François…
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from 05/05/2021 to 09/05/2021CommemorationLIVE Commemorations of Napoleon’s Death on St Helena
On 5, 6 and 9 May, wherever you are around the world, watch online the Bicentenary ceremonies. ► FOLLOW THE CEREMONIES LIVE Programme: (Times are given in GMT i.e. 1 hour behind London and 4 hours ahead of New York) – 5 May 2021: From 8am-4pm GMT, Laying of the personalised wreaths on the tomb* From 5pm GMT: Longwood House Gardens. Funeral march […]
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ArticleTalking Point with Michel Dancoisne-Martineau: A mysterious key from Longwood goes under the hammerOn Monday 11 January 2021, a key supposedly to the room in Longwood House in which Napoleon died went under the hammer at a renowned auction house. The final price: £81,900. The object came with a handwritten note bearing the words: “Key of the Room at…
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InterviewPierre Branda: Napoleon on St Helena “Never in the history of the world have so much money and land been given up to keep a single man in chains” (January 2021)In this interview for napoleon.org, Pierre Branda evokes some of the insights and revelations that came out of his 600-page study of one the most impressively organised and costly incarcerations ever conceived. (with Marie de Bruchard, translation PH)
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PublicationNapoléon à Sainte HélèneIn French (English title: Napoleon on St Helena)
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Napo FactfileIn the footsteps of Napoleon I…
• 1 • Ajaccio (Corsica, France) BIRTH OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio on 15 August 1769, to an aristocratic family. One year earlier, Corsica had passed from the hands of the Republic of Genoa into the hands of France. As a child, Napoleon was just as happy to play war games […]