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Fondation Napoléon
FormationOctober 12, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-10-12)
Headquarters7 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005, Paris, France
Websitehttps://fondationnapoleon.org/

The Fondation Napoléon (English: Napoleon Foundation) is a registered French non-profit organization founded on 12th November 1987. The foundation aims to support study of the First and Second French Empires.

Mission and activities

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The Fondation Napoléon promotes research on the history of the First and Second French Empires by awarding six research grants to both French and international Ph.D. candidates.[1] It also presents an annual History Prize[2] for works related to the two French Empires, published in French or other European languages. Additionally, the foundation supports academic conferences, bicentennial and sesquicentennial commemorations, Napoleonic book publishing, and the production of exhibition catalogues.

Save Longwood, Napoleon's House on St Helena

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In December 2010, the foundation launched an international appeal to save Napoleon's house on the island of St Helena.[1] The funds collected were to be used to pay for the restoration of the buildings in which Napoleon and his entourage lived in exile on St Helena from 1815 to 1821. The appeal was supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2]

Opposition to the removal of the Statue of Napoleon in Rouen

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In September 2020, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Rouen wanted to replace the statue of Napoleon with a statue or work of art dedicated to the recently deceased feminist Gisèle Halimi. Later in December 2021, the statue was registered as a monument historique (historic monument in English).

Publication of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte

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In 2002, the Foundation launched a project in partnership with the French Archives nationales, the French Archives du Ministère des Affaires étrangères, and with the support of the Fondation La Poste, to publish the most complete version of the General Correspondence of Napoleon I. In November 2011, Editions Fayard published Volume 8 which contains letters from the war in Spain in 1808.

The project was completed in 2018 with the publication of the fifteenth and final volume.[3] The project now aims to digitise all volumes to be viewed online, with the entire collection due to be available by the end of 2023. The first volume was due to be made available online from May 2022.[3][citation needed]

Libraries, web sites and e-review

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Libraries

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  • The Napoleonic Digital Library[4] provides downloadable e-texts (books, offprints, etc.) since 2010.
  • The Fondation Napoléon's library, the Bibliothèque Martial-Lapeyre/ Fondation Napoléon, is open to the general public.[5]

Websites

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  • napoleon.org[6] was founded in 1996
  • Napoleonica.org[7] was founded in 1999

E-review

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  • Napoleonica La Revue[8] (founded in 2008) is a bilingual international peer-review periodical of articles on the two Napoleonic empires.

Art and historical memorabilia collection

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The Fondation Napoléon organises exhibitions of its collection of fine art and historical memorabilia, (Exhibitions includes Paris (2004), São Paulo, (2003) Brazil, Monterrey, Mexico (2005), Minden (2006) Germany) and loans items from the collection to prestigious exhibition worldwide.

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "St Helena Appeal". Fondation Napoleon. 2016. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Save Napoleon's House on St Helena". Fondation du Patrimoine [fr]. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b "The Correspondence of Napoleon". Fondation Napoleon. 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  4. ^ "Bibliothèque-Library - Bibliothèque numérique Digital Library". Fondation Napoléon. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  5. ^ "Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre Library". Fondation Napoleon. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  6. ^ "napoleon.org - Le site d'histoire de la Fondation Napoléon". napoleon.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Napoleonica, archives et documents napoléoniens". www.napoleonica.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Revue Napoleonica. La Revue - Cairn.info". Cairn.info. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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