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NAPOLEON MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND…
This week's bulletin wanders far and wide. In Dublin, in July this year, the International Napoleonic Society will be bringing together scholars and enthusiasts from the world over for a week of N-themed entertainments. In like manner, in September, the Napoleonic Historical Society is taking over the Union Club in Chicago for its annual Napoleonic shindig. This month's book, The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815: a Napoleonic outpost in central Europe, is the long-overdue, serious, scholarly discussion by Jaroslaw Czubaty of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw. And of course, there's St Helena, which will be our main preoccupation over the coming weeks and months. For April will see the opening in Paris of the exhibition at Les Invalides concerning Napoleon on that island. It will be a unique moment for us in Western Europe to see the (often surprisingly humble) furniture and furnishings from Longwood House, as well as other rarely-seen memorabilia of the exile. So if you don't think you'll ever make it to St Helena (despite the forthcoming opening of the airport), you must get to Paris in the springtime!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Director of International Relations at the Fondation Napoléon
OBITUARY
We are sad to announce that Professor Thomas Munch-Petersen died on 1 February, 2016. Dr Munch-Petersen was a retired Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian History at University College London, and he was awarded a Fondation Napoléon History Prize in 2008 for his work entitled “Defying Napoleon. How Britain bombarded Copenhagen and seized the Danish fleet in 1807”. The Fondation Napoléon sends its deepest condolences to his widow and family.
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INTERVIEW > THIERRY LENTZ: “NAPOLEON ON ST HELENA: HIS FIGHT FOR HIS STORY”
Next month sees the opening of a new exhibition at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, which presents not only some of the furniture which surrounded Napoleon at Longwood House 200 years ago, (recently restored in France thanks to the international appeal coordinated by the Fondation Napoléon) but also rarely-seen memorabilia and artworks relating to the St Helena exile.
In this interview Thierry Lentz talks to Irène Delage about the upcoming exhibition, an exceptional opportunity to see objects that have not been seen together since 1821.
A short video by the musée de l'Armée presents an artist's impression (external link) of the exhibition layout. To be sure not to miss it, it is already possible to book tickets (external link)for the exhibition on the museum's website.
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EXHIBITION > HUBERT ROBERT, 1733-1808 UN PEINTRE VISIONNAIRE
Hubert Robert was a chronicler of Paris and of the stormy history that rocked the late-18th century. And his later works give us a glimpse of Paris during the Consulate.
Robert ended his distinguished career as a thoughtful and committed curator of the brand new Muséum Central des Arts, the future Musée Napoléon, later the Musée du Louvre, indeed many of his works take as subject that building, either real or imagined. In this, the first monographic exhibition of the artist since 1933, 140 works including drawings, paintings, decorative works and furniture, bear witness to the career of an eclectic artist.
“Hubert Robert, 1733-1808. A visionary painter” opens this week at the Musée du Louvre from 9 March to 30 May 2016.
In June this year the exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Washington. (external link) Have a look at this imaginary view of the Salle des Saisons at the Louvre.
[image: detail from an imaginary view of the Louvre Museum in ruins by Hubert Robert].
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A CHASUBLE BELONGING TO NAPOLEON'S UNCLE REDISCOVERED IN LYON
A chasuble made of red silk and embroidered in gold thread has been discovered in the sacristy of the convent of the Croix Rousse in Lyon. The sacramental garment - a sort of cloak covering the front and back, with an opening for the head - decorated with the design of a golden lamb was found by nuns in a cupboard accompanied by an old piece of paper indicating that it had belonged to Cardinal Fesch, Napoleon's uncle and archbishop of Lyon from 1802 to 1839. (external link in French).
On the subject of Imperial vestments, why not have a look again at this article about Empress Eugenie's Collection of Religious textiles at Farnborough Abbey?
Wishing you an excellent Napoleonic week!
Peter Hicks and Rebecca Young
THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN No. 792, 4-10 March 2016
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- CZUBATY, Jaroslaw, PHILLIPS, Ursula (translator), The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815 a Napoleonic outpost in central Europe (London, 2015)
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Exhibitions
- Hubert Robert (1733–1808) A Visionary Painter, Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR [09/03/2016 - 30/05/2016]NEW
- Easy Virtue. Prostitution in French Art, 1850-1910, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL [19/02/2016 - 19/06/2016] NEW
- The art of the superfluous, Paris, the decorative arts and fashion, Archives de Paris, FR [08/02/2016 - 03/06/2016] NEW
- Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA [15/02/2016 - 15/05/2016]
Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Painter in Her Majesty's service, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg, Germany[28/11/2015 - 20/03/2016]
- Quando Roma parlava Francese: Feste e monumenti della prima Repubblica Romana (1798-1799), Museo Napoleonico di Roma, Italy [11/12/2015 - 13/03/2016] LAST DAYS
- Franceschini-Pietri, Napoleon III's secretary Palais Fesch, Ajaccio , Corsica [27/11/2015 - 09/05/2016]
- Delacroix et l'antique (Delacroix and Antiquity), Musée Delacroix, Paris, FR [09/12/2015 - 07/03/2016] LAST DAYS
- Ingres, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain [24/11/2015 - 27/03/2016]
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- Victualling Nelson's Navy: Food and Cooking on the High Seas in the Age of the Napoleonic Wars, The Naval Club of Toronto, Ontario CA [15/03/2016]
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