Fondation Napoléon
French non-profit organisation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fondation Napoléon (English: Napoleon Foundation) is a registered French non-profit organization founded on 12 November 1987. The foundation aims to support study of the First and Second French Empires.
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| Formation | 12 October 1987 |
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| Headquarters | 7 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005, Paris, France |
| Website | https://fondationnapoleon.org/ |
Mission and activities
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Perspective
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 PhD candidates. It also presents an annual History Prize 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
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
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, which Fondation Napoléon was against. Later in December 2021, the statue was registered as a monument historique (historic monument in English).
Publication of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Libraries
Websites
E-review
- 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
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.
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