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THE FONDATION NAPOLEON WELCOMES A NEW TRUSTEE
The Comte Nicolas Walewski has been unanimously coopted by the Board of Trustees of the Fondation Napoléon, as a replacement for Olivier Le Fuel, who died last June. Thirty-nine years old, Polytechnicien, and descendant of Napoleon via Marie Walewska, brother of the much-regretted Comte Florian Walewski who was Vice-president of the Fondation, Comte Nicolas Walewski is also a financial specialist, a particularly useful skill.
During the meeting of the board of trustees, Baron Gourgaud paid homage to Olivier Le Fuel (see Fondation Napoléon news).
THIS MONTH'S PAINTING
Portrait of Madame Fouler, Comtesse de Relingue, by Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845)
Renowned for his ability to catch a likeness and his avoidance of excessive flattery, Boilly was for the most part sollicited by an upper middle class clientele. He here paints a young woman who is 'up' in fashion. Ever since the Directory, antiquity had been the prevailing style for clothing. The tunic is in the Greek fashion. Its light, almost transparent, material merges into a white dress with short sleeves, called in French « à bretelles » ...
200 YEARS AGO
Napoleon left Trier on 18 Vendémiaire, An XIII (8 October, 1804) for Luxembourg (principle town of the Département des Forêts) arriving on 19 (9). there he visited the fortifications. On 20 (10), he was at Stenay, returning to Saint-Cloud on 22 (12), between 11am and midday.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Just published
- The Battle of Trafalgar, by Geoffrey Bennett
- Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era, by Janet Macdonald
- Wellington's Navy: Sea Power and the Pensinsular War 1807-1814, by C.D. Hall
- Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar, by Brian Lavery
- Edward Pellew, by C.Northcote Parkinson
What's on
- Festival: 1st Napoleon Festival, Sarzana, Italy
- Radio: Playing Boney's tunes, BBC Radio 4 online
- Exhibition: The Treasures of the Fondation Napoléon, Paris
- Conference: International Conference: Visions of Napoleon's European politique
- Study Day: Napoleon and Rome
- Exhibition: Images of the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon
- Conference: Napoleonic Association, UK
- Exhibition: Was für ein Theater, Krönungen & Spektakel in napoleonischer Zeit
(What a show! Coronations and pomp in the Napoleonic period), Château d'Arenenberg, Switzerland
- Exhibition: Giovanni Spadolini's passion for Napoleon: a tale of history, politics and culture, Elba, Italy
The monthly titles
- This month's book: Fighting Napoleon: Guerillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain 1808-1814, by Charles J. Esdaile
- This month's painting: Portrait of Madame Fouler, Comtesse de Relingue, by Louis Leopold Boilly
- This month's article: Autograph Bonaparte letters at the Universities of Princeton (USA) and Vilnius (Lithuania). A tale of Napoleonic forgeries?, by Peter Hicks
- In the Collectors Corner, Dessert plate from the «Service particulier de l'Empereur» : "Le prytanée de Saint-Cyr" by N.-A. Lebel
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