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ArticleBICENTENNIAL CLOSE UP ON NAPOLEON III, 1808-2008
Though the nephew of an Emperor and the son of a king, Louis-Napoleon's route to the throne of France was a difficult one. At his birth he was a sickly child and his mother, the Queen Hortense, suffered severe post-natal depression. Napoleon I, however, is supposed to have said that Louis-Napoleon was perhaps the future […]
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ArticleFrom Eylau to Friedland, or what happened to the "Fourth Coalition"
After the battle of Eylau, Napoleon was faced with two imperatives: one, to take his army into the safety of winter-quarters and to rebuild the health and confidence of the army after the difficult encounter in the snow of February 1807; and two, to protect the army's supply lines and situation so far from France […]
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TimelineLife and Reign of Napoleon IIIEmpire : 2nd Republic / 2nd EmpireTheme(s) : Imperial FamilyIn picturesThe Empress Eugenie by Gustave Le Gray © Sebert
This exceptional portrait of the Empress Eugenie was commissioned by the Pasha of Egypt from the painter and photographer Gustave Le Gray in 1869 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Suez Canal. He offered it as a gift to Eugenie. The Empress subsequently gave the work to her god-daughter, Madame Pietri, who had […]
ArticleSaint Helena – prison islandA place of confinement The St Helena Herald for 17th September 2004 carried the following article;Escaped prisoner still missingPaul Stroud, a prisoner sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for the importation of drugs, went missing last weekend. He remains at large. The escaped prisoner remained at large for more than a week and was eventually recaptured after […]
ArticleNapoleon; or, the Man of the World from Representative Men (1850)Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known and the most powerful; and owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men. (1) It is Swedenborg’s theory that every organ is made […]
ArticleMichel Albertini, scenographer of the exhibition "The Treasures of the Fondation Napoléon"…Michel Albertini, author, theatre director, actor and scenographer, is a man of many parts Born in the south of France, he first worked with Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire who took him around the world with their ballet. He then studied theatre at the Conservatoire National de Paris, and as « Villa Médicis » scholar, he […]
BiographyLESSEPS, Ferdinand deCreator of the Suez Canal. Born in Versailles, into a family raised to the nobility in 1777, son of Mathieu de Lesseps, French Consul, and nephew of Barthélemy de Lesseps, one of the members of the La Pérouse expedition and subsequently French Consul General in St Petersburg during the First Empire. Ferdinand, who was schooled […]
BiographyPASHA, Saïd, MohammedViceroy of Egypt, born in Cairo in 1822 (by a woman from the Caucasus) the fourth son of Mohammed-Ali. He died, also in Cairo, in 1863. Mohammed-Ali devoted himself wholeheartedly to educating Saïd Pasha in the European style, by employing tutors, most of whom were French, and one of whom was Koenig-Bey, who later became […]
BiographyPASHA, IsmailViceroy of Egypt, son of Ibrahim Pasha, born in Cairo in 1830. Sent to France to complete his education, he followed a course of study at the École d’état-major, at the same time as his elder brother, Ahmet Rifaat, and returned to Egypt in 1849. Some years later, Ismail travelled to Constantinople, where he received […]