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Dear Friends,
So closes the great year of 2004, marked by the bicentenaries of the promulgation of the Code civil, the proclamation of the Empire, the consecration and coronation of Napoleon, and the distribution of the first stars of the Légion d'honneur. The Baron Gourgaud, President of the Fondation Napoléon, the members of the board of trustees, and the executive team at the Fondation, wish you an excellent Christmas and New Year. After a few days rest, the news bulletin will re-appear in your 'Inbox' on Friday, 6 January.
Thierry Lentz
NAPOLEONIC E-CARDS
Send your Christmas and New Year greetings with an e-card showing Napoleon Bonaparte, the imperial family, or even a caricature: twenty-seven to choose from. So save on postage and get sending!
MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS ETC
From Corsica to Saint Helena, from Rome to Cuba, from Sweden to South Africa, whether near to you or far, discover Napoleonic sites, monuments and collections the world over.
EXHIBITIONS AT HOME!
Discover our Special Dossiers: the opening of the Suez Canal, caricatures of Napoleon I, the military camp of the Second Empire, and finally our project to repair the Napoleonic parks damaged by the 'cyclone' in December 1999. Indeed, you might need a few days to wander round these sections which are in fact websites in their own right.
200 YEARS AGO
On the morning of 30 Frimaire, An XIII (21 December, 1804), Cherubini directed the first performance in Paris of the Mozart Requiem, in the church of Saint-Germain-l'-Auxerrois.
During his stay in Paris, Pius VII celebrated masses in many different churches in and around the capital: on 3 Nivôse, An XIII (24 December, 1804), he officiated at Saint-Sulpice before a full church. On 5 Nivôse he was once again in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The following day he celebrated mass at the church of Saint-Thomas d'Acquin, although there the congregation was thinner since the church wardens (marguilliers, in French) had decided to make parishioners pay to get in.
11 Nivôse, An XIII (1 January, 1805), while the Parisians were still celebrating the coronation of the emperor of the French, the pupils of the Ecole polytechnique were swearing an oath of fidelity to him. The ceremony was however upset when one of the students refused to swear and ran off: according to the police préfecture report of 12 Nivôse, the student was the son of Jacques-Pierre Brissot, one of the Girondin leaders guillotined in October1793.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, Christmas and New Year!
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK
Just Published
We here at napoleon.org have selected for you some Napoleonic books for Christmas.
Enjoy!
Journal News
- The great collection of Frederick Stibbert, Florence, Italy
What's on
- Exhibition: James Gillray, New York Public Library, US
- Exhibition: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon: Empire Elegance Versus Regency Refinement, New York Public Library, US
Exhibition: The Treasures of the Fondation Napoléon, Paris, France
- Exhibition: Images of the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon
The monthly titles
- This month's book: Wellington's Navy: Sea Power and the Pensinsular War 1807-1814, by C. D. Hall
- This month's painting: Fair by a river, by Jean-Louis Demarne
- This month's article: The music at the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, by H. K. Peters
- In the Collectors Corner, Revolutionary-period skeleton clock
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