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THIS MONTH'S OBJECT
Scale model of the frigate La Muiron
The frigate La Muiron was part of the fleet which sailed to Egypt in 1798. After escaping the catastrophe at the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir), it was to be the ship in which Bonaparte returned to Europe in the June 1799. As a souvenir, the First Consul commissioned a 1/72 scale model of the boat in 1803, which was made in the Toulon arsenal delivered to Napoleon in 1805.
© Musée de la Marine
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HOLIDAY PLANS?
Why no follow one of our Napoleonic itineraries on your holidays. There's one for Corsica (the Ajaccio house in which Napoleon was born is illustrated here opposite), one for Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris) in Josephine's footsteps, and Compiègne, if you're in a more Eugénie frame of mind... or why not Napoleon in New York!
Or are you in Paris this summer? Why not drop in for a quick read!
The Fondation will be open (18 July to 25 August) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1-30pm to 6pm.
148, Boulevard Haussmann, 8e, métro Miromesnil (lines 9 and 13)
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SUMMER READING
Aside from books published in 2005, this selection of reading matter for the beach is unashamedly naval and 1805-related, but also aims to provide something for everyone.
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200 YEARS AGO
On 29 July, 1805, Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil (78).
From 2 August to 2 September, Napoleon stayed at the Boulogne Camp. He reviewed his troops on 4 August and organised a general embarkation exercise on 21.
On 9 August, 1805, Austria joined the Anglo-Russian coalition.
On 24 August, 1805, France signed a treaty of alliance with Bavaria.
On 25 August, Napoleon performed his 'pirouette' and turned the army encamped at Boulogne around and sent it off to the French border with Germany - the threat of invasion of Britain was over.
150 YEARS AGO
Crimean War: from 9 to 11 August, a Franco-British fleet bombarded the Russian fortress of Sweaborg (Finland). Significant damage (the jetties and the arsenal were destroyed) represented a serious blow to Russian operations in the Baltic.
Crimean War: 16 August, 1855, despite a strong counter-attack made by Russian forces on the Malakoff fort, the Franco-British siege held fast.
On 18 August, 1855, Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert, we met in Boulogne by Napoléon III. This state visit was the first by a British monarch in 400 years. As part of her visit, Victoria was to pay her respects at the tomb of Napoleon I in the Invalides.
The napoleon.org new bulletin will now be going on holiday. See you again on 2 September.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK
PRESS REVIEW
The Napoleonic collection of the Municipal Museum of Cologne, on the Web Site European napoleonic Resarch Centre, Alessandria, Italy
WHAT'S ON
- Exhibition: L'Isola dell'Imperatore: Le dimore di Napoleone. Da Residenze a Museo (The emperor's island: the Napoleonic residences, from houses to museums)
- Exhibition: Nelson and Napoleon, National Maritime Museum, London, UK
- Exhibition: Il rifugio di Venere. La Villa Paolina Bonaparte, Viareggio, Italy
- Conference: War at Sea in the age of Nelson, The Trafalgar Bicentennial Conference, Christ Church, Oxford, UK
- Conference: The Battle of Trafalgar Conference, at Action Stations, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK
- For Napoleonic and Nelsonian 2005 bicentenaries, watch our 2005 bicentenaries page
THE MONTHLY TITLES
- This month's book: HILL, Peter P., Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815
- This month's painting: The Immortality of Nelson, by Benjamin West (1807)
- This month's article: Napoleon; or, the Man of the World from Representative Men (1850), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the Collectors Corner, Scale model of the frigate La Muiron
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