Fondation Napoléon

Appeal: Napoleon’s uniform from St Helena magnificently restored

Prix Chateaubriand 2016 Award Ceremony: Thierry Lentz   On Thursday 23 February 2017, Gabriel de Broglie, Chancellor of the Institute, Patrick Devedjian, President of the General Council of the Hauts-de-Seine, and Marc Fumaroli, of the Académie Française, of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, and president of the jury of the Prix Chateaubriand, presented Thierry Lentz with the 30th Chateaubriand Prize for […]

History Prizes and Study Grants 2016 : the prizewinners On 8 November 2016, the jury for the Fondation Napoléon History Prizes selected the following publications...

Publication of Volume XIII of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Ier This thirteenth volume of the General Correspondance of Napoleon Bonaparte, directed by Pierre Branda, covers the first half of 1813 and includes 2,925 commented letters, 5 maps, a commented chronology, two indexes... More information and introduction in English...

Partnership Archives Nationales: digitalised minutes of Napoleon’s letters online From 1 September 2016, all the minutes of the letters written by the First Consul and Emperor, that are today preserved in the archives of the Secretariat of State (AF / IV / 861-908), are available [...] the Archives […]