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ArticleChristmas Selection 2008Gift ideas for a very Napoleonic Christmas 2008 The language is English unless otherwise stated in brackets.
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ArticleLa Correspondance générale in numbers
Members of the Correspondence team Correspondence visitors who have participated since the beginning: 258Correspondence visitors to the Fondation: 50Correspondence visitors trained in the digital processing of letters: 130Activity:-2004: 4,188 working hours (89.1 per week)-2005: 7,996 working hours (170,1 per week)-2006: 7,660 working hours (162,9 per week)-2007: 7,776 working hours (165,4 per week)-2008: 5,712 working hours […]
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ArticleThe General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 5: the project thus far…
A new volume, and a new update. Even if the exercise seems routine, the work certainly isn't. Each week, the never-ending search for Napoleon's letters throws up new discoveries, particularly during this bicentenary period. New, previously unknown, letters are appearing all the time at auction and the supplementary volume that will be released at the end of the […]
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ArticleIntroduction to the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 5In honour of the release in November 2008 of Volume 5 of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon.org offers you a translation of the volume's introduction.
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ArticleCharles Frederick Worth, the Empress Eugénie and the invention of Haute-Couture
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ArticleObituary: Ben Weider
The Canadian historian and patron of the arts passed away last Friday, at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He was 84. Ben Weider was born in Quebec in 1924 and dedicated his life to his two passions: sport (he made his fortune in the creation and commercialisation of training and […]
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ArticleA dazzling exhibition dedicated to Bonaparte and his Egyptian Campaign
“Bonaparte et l'Egypte, feu et lumières”, 14 October 2008 to 29 March 2009, Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe The raging fires of battle and the dazzling light of discovery: that is what is on offer at this exhibition. The well-spaced but fluid progression leaves the visitor the luxury and time to read and digest the many information […]
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ArticleBook review: exhibition catalogue for "Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style 1800-1815"
The decorative arts An up-to-date bibliography, an index and a number of essays accompany annotated photos and images of the works that were on display in an exhibition held first at the St. Louis Art Museum, then the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before finishing in Paris at the Musée des Arts décoratifs. These […]
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ArticleThe Luciano Bonaparte Principe di Canino Prize, October 2008The fourth Luciano Bonaparte literary prize was awarded at the beginning of October 2008 by the town of Canino in collarboation with the Fondazione Primoli, the Museo Napoleonico and the Centro di Studi Napoleonici, Roma.
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ArticleThe Meeting at ErfurtBetween 27 September and 14 October 1808, in the small town of Erfurt, in Thüringen, central Germany, the famous Meeting at Erfurt took place. As well as the French and Russian emperors, the majority of German sovereigns were present. These latter, however, were not at Erfurt…