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EDITORIAL
The birthday party continues...
Today, for site's tenth birthday, we bring you Napoleon for your portable telephone. There's a mixture of ringtones, wallpapers and screensavers which you can download on your portable telephone and adapt to your own desires and requirements. Sambre-et-Meuse for your boss, the consular march for your mother-in-law, and the Diane or Reveille for obvious reasons, etc.
And if you understand French, don't forget to sign up for the letter in French. There are several specifically French-language birthday events, notably radio interviews and a prize quiz.
An excellent Napoleonic week to you all.
Thierry Lentz
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POCKET NAPOLEON FOR YOUR PORTABLE TELEPHONE
Take Napoleon with you everywhere you go! We've got Napoleon wallpapers, Napoleon ring tones and Napoleon screensavers for you to download. Portraits of Napoleon, the imperial eagle, or a hussards as your phone screensaver, The Consular march or En partant pour la Syrie as your ringtone, or why not the la Diane as your wakeup call.
Go ahead. Enjoy yourself!
© Fondation Napoléon
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THIS MONTH'S OBJECT
Star of the Légion d'honneur
After the abolition by the Revolution of the ancient orders of chivalry in the name of égalité, the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour), instituted on 29 Floréal, An X (19 May, 1802), was created as an honour of a completely different type. By honouring personal merit, both civil and military, without distinction of birth, the award was "a start towards the organisation of the Nation", as the First Consul put it.
(c) Fondation Napoléon
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RE-OPENING OF THE MUSEE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR
The Musée de la Légion d'honneur re-opened its doors on 22 November 2006, after five long years of refurbishment work during which the museum was entirely renovated and reorganised. The exhibition space now occupies the rear wing of the Palais de Salm and as such offers much more room and light for the display of the collection. And there's not only Napoleonic medalsL The exhibition includes decorations ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the present day.
For a presentation of the re-opening, click here (in French).
(c) Musée de la Légion d'honneur
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200 YEARS AGO
The Polish Campaign begins
On 25 November, 1806, Napoleon left Berlin to join the Grande Armée in Poland.
On 27 November, 1806, Napoleon arrived in Posen (the half-way point between Berlin and Warsaw). The town was decorated with triumphal arches and illuminations, and a sign 'To the restorer of the Polish nation'. Napoleon there received a deputation of town dignitaries requesting the reconstitution of the kingdom of Poland; on the same day Russian troops under Bennigsen evacuated Warsaw to retire behind the river Narew.
On 28 November, 1806, Murat (dressed in a fantastically ornate uniform) and his troops enter Warsaw to much rejoicing. Poniatowski presented Murat with the sword of the sixteenth-century king of Poland, Stefan Batory.
Daily life in Paris:
On 24 November, 1806, the Pont d'Austerlitz bridge was opened to pedestrians.
(Gazette de France, 30 November, 1806)
The 29 November, 1806, saw the re-opening of what had been called the Théâtre Molière but which was now renamed the Théâtre des Variétés-Etrangères, set in the Passage Molière (hence the old name) off the Rue Saint Martin in Paris. Jean-François Boursault-Malherbe (who had run the theatre before) took the very novel step of making the troop specialise in the performance of French translations of foreign plays. For the re-opening, a new troop of actors was formed and two plays were performed: a German commedy entitled «Avis aux vieillards ou les deux Klinsberg» and a comedy translated from English called «La fille de quinze ans».
(Courrier Français, 1 December, 1806)
150 YEARS AGO
At the end of November 1856, the Cirque Napoléon (the name was changed in 1873 to Cirque d'Hiver) had a new intake of performers in order to keep up standards and to perpetuate the success which it had had since its opening on 11 December, 1852.
(Le Moniteur universel, 26 November, 1856)
On 26 November, 1856, Russia announced that a monument would soon be built in honour of the Russian officers who fell at Sebastopol. It was to include a vast funerary chapel east of the Saint Nicholas cemetery. (Moniteur universel, 27 November, 1856)
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, No 391, 24-30 November, 2006
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STOP PRESS
PARIS ARCHIVES NATIONALES, CARAN
As a result of administrative examinations, delivery of documents is liable to be disrupted on the following days:
Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 November, 2006
Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 December, 2006
Please accept the Archives Nationales' apologies
THIS WEEK in the MAGAZINE
WHAT'S ON
Conference:
Istria and the Illyrian Provinces in the Napoleonic Period: Bicentenary of the Code Napoléon, 1806-2006, Pirano, Slovenia
Exhibitions:
- Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, MomA, New York, USA
- Champignon Bonaparte - illustrations by Gilles Bachelet, Bibliothèque Marmottan, Paris, France
- Dagoty in Paris - the Empress Josephine's porcelain manufactory, Reuil-Malmaison, France
- Napoleon III and Europe - 1856, Paris, France
- Napoleon, an intimate portrait, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Public Portraits, Private Portraits 1770-1830, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Louis Napoleon: at the court of the first King of Holland, 1806-1810, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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