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PRESIDENT´S MESSAGE
With this last information before the summer, we want to share with you all the Napoleonic events which we thought you would like: things to read, journeys to take, exhibitions to see, in short the banquet of Napoleonica out there!
These are merely a foretaste of the surprises which the napoleon.org team is preparing for you for September and the site´s tenth birthday.
A new homepage, new services, some audio interviews with personalities from the historical and cultural world, a prize competition, daily special items, not to mention the other new features. It´s going to be a lively autumn on napoleon.org.
An excellent summer to you all!
Victor André Masséna, Prince d'Essling
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THIS MONTH'S OBJECT
A Mamluk's harness
On 21 July, 1798, the French army, led by the general Bonaparte fought a battle on the Gizeh plain against Murad Bey and his Mamluk troops. The Mamluk equipment and arms left on the battlefield was gathered up the day after the battle and offered by Bonaparte's staff to Bonaparte. Three Mamluk harnesses, today held in the Musée de l'Armée (Paris), were part of that booty. © Musée de l'Armée
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SUMMER BOOKS
It's holiday time and as usual we're recommending that you do nothing whatsoever, or rather that you curl up in a corner (or on a deckchair in the garden?) and plunge into that book that you haven't had time to get to during the year. Biography, militaria, history in general, there's something for everyone! © DR
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SUMMER VISITS
Why not follow some our Napoleonic itineraries: there's one for Corsica, the primary Napoleonic destination (here opposite is a photo of the Bonaparte house in Ajaccio), there also one for Jena and the battle thereof, not to mention those for Rueil-Malmaison (in the footsteps of Joesphine), Compiègne (a First and Second Empire treat), and even New York!
Coming to Paris this summer? Why not drop in?
During the summer, from 17 July to 18 August, the Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre-Fondation Napoléon library will have the following opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1-30 to 6pm. Normal opening times will resume on 21 August.
Exceptionally, the Fondation Napoléon will be closed on Monday 14 August, 2006
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SPECIAL DOSSIERS: EXHIBITIONS AT HOME
Not going on holiday yet? If you don't fancy a book for the summer, why not try one of our online virtual exhibitions: There are four to choose from: the acerbic Anti Napoléon, the Second Empire saga of the opening of the Suez canal, the disaster of the 2000 hurricane, and the Second Empire army at the Chalons Camp! And there are two more on the French side, one on Eugéne de Beauharnais and another on the First Iitalian Campaign. That could keep you going most of the summer!
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15 AUGUST: SAINT NAPOLEON'S DAY
The national holiday established by Napoleon during the First Empire, the "Saint Napoléon", a combination of Napoleon's birthday, the saint's day and the Assumption, is till feted today in the Napoleonic world. Indeed, every year since the 1930s, the city of Prague has organised the "Napoleonic days" and a summer "Napoleonic night" commemorating the birth of the hero of Austerlitz.
200 YEARS AGO
July 1806
- On 18 July, 1806, Masséna took the port and fortress of Gaeta in the Kingdom of Naples (today southern Lazio), after an eleven-day siege.
- On 20 July, 1806, a Franco-Russian peace treaty was signed by the Russian envoy Oubril, sub spe rati (in the hope that it would be ratified) «By this peace, it is said that hostilities will cease simultaneously on land and sea, and that the Catarro estuary should be handed over immediately.» (Correspondence n°10528). Since it strayed too far from the envoy's initial instructions, however, the treaty was not to be ratified by Alexander.
August 1806
- On 1 August, 1806, the Confederation of the Rhine informed the diet at Regensburg of its secession from the Holy Roman Empire.
- On 6 August, 1806, Francis I of Austria resigned from his title and dignity as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- On 10 August, 1806, the solemn translation and exposition of the holy crown of thorns took place at Notre-Dame de Paris. It was entrusted to the cathedral treasury.
- On 14 August, 1806, a sénatus-consulte was passed authorising the granting of inalienable benefits to the families of senators.
- On 15 August, 1806, in honour of Saint Napoleon's day, the first stone in the Arc de triomphe de l'Etoile was laid.
- On 25 August, 1806, work began on the Vendôme column.
150 YEARS AGO
July 1856
- On 17 July, 1856, a sénatus-consulte was passed concerning contingency plans for a regency in the Empire. The empress was to become regent if the emperor died whilst their son was a still a minor (art. 2)
- On 25 July, 1856, a settlement of 72 families was founded in the Département of Alger on 1,127 hectares of fertile land. It was to take the name of Alma.
- On 28 July, 1856, the German composer Robert Schumann died (1810-1856).
August 1856
- On 2 August, 1856, the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris, at the end of Avenue Montaigne, was inaugurated.
- On 4 August, 1856, Napoleon III ordered the suspension of all troops movements to the border with Spain (Moniteur universel, 5 August, 1856).
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, summer.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, No 380, 13-19 July, 2006
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THIS WEEK in the MAGAZINE
SNIPPETS
Nelson's column makeover
WHAT'S ON
Television:
BBC - The century that made us - watch clips of the episodes online.
Conferences:
Workshop: Luigi Emanuele Corvetto (1756-1821), financier, lawyer and politician, Genoa–Imperia, Italy
Commemorations:
- Jena 1806-2006 - Rendezvous in Thuringia The "Journées de Thuringe 2006" and the bicentenary of the Battle of Jena/Auerstädt
Exhibitions:
- 100 years ago: Life in a Swiss château from 1856-1906, Arenenberg, Switzerland
- Louis Bonaparte and the Leiden powder explosion, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Adel im Wandel (Changing nobility) Exhibition in the Prinzenbau and Landeshaus Sigmaringen, Germany
- Bayerns Krone 1806 (Bavaria's crown, 1806) Exhibition in what used to be the king's residence in Munich, Germany
- Napoleon and Nassau Exhibition in the Wiesbaden Casino-Gesellschaft, Germany
- Das Königreich Württemberg 1806–1918. Monarchie und Moderne (The kingdom of Württemberg 1806–1918. Monarchy and modernity) In the old castle, Stuttgart, Germany
- 200 Jahre Großherzogtum Baden (200 years of the Grand Duchy of Baden) Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany
- The price of the new crown: Baden and Wurttemberg as Napoleon's vassal – the Confederation of the Rhine 1806 Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt, Germany
- NAPOLÉON An Intimate Portrait, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, New York, USA
- Géricault, a world of madness, Lyons, France
- Il tempo dell'Imperatore: gli orologi restaurati delle residenze di Napoleoni all'Elba, Elba, Italy
- Louis Napoleon: at the court of the first King of Holland, 1806-1810, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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