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Fondation Napoléon
Formation12 November 1987; 37 years ago (1987-11-12)
Headquarters7 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005, Paris, France
President
Victor-André Masséna
Vice President
Nicolas Walewski
Websitehttps://fondationnapoleon.org/

The Fondation Napoléon (English: Napoleon Foundation) is a registered French nonprofit organization established on 12 November 1987. The foundation supports the study of the First French Empire and Second French Empire.

It also focuses on the French Directory and Consulate, during which Napoleon Bonaparte played a key role as First Consul following the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

Mission and activities

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The Fondation Napoléon promotes research on the history of the First French Empire and Second French Empire by awarding six research grants to both French and international PhD candidates annually. It also presents an annual history prize for works related to the two French empires. Additionally, the foundation supports academic conferences, bicentennial and sesquicentennial commemorations, Napoleonic book publishing, and the production of exhibition catalogues.[citation needed]

Save Longwood, Napoleon's house on St. Helena

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The foundation launched an international appeal to save Napoleon's Longwood house on the island of St Helena in December 2010.[1] The funds collected were intended 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, sought to replace the statue of Napoleon with a statue or work of art dedicated to the recently deceased feminist Gisèle Halimi, a proposal that Fondation Napoléon opposed.[3] Later, in December 2021, the statue was registered as a monument historique ('historic monument' in English).[4]

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.[5]

From 2020-2023, the Foundation digitised the fifteen volumes, alongside previously unpublished letters, and made them available to view online. The digital collection contains more than 40,000 letters.[5] [6]

Libraries, websites and e-review

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Libraries

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  • The Napoleonic Digital Library[7] provides downloadable e-texts (books, offprints, etc.) from 2010.
  • The Fondation Napoléon's library, the Bibliothèque Martial-Lapeyre, is open to the general public.[8]

Websites

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  • napoleon.org[9] was founded in 1996.
  • Napoleonica.org[10] was founded in 1999.

E-review

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  • Napoleonica La Revue[11] (founded in 2008) is a bilingual international peer-reviewed 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, including in Paris (2004), São Paulo, Brazil (2003), Monterrey, Mexico (2005), Minden, Germany (2006), and loans items from the collection to exhibitions worldwide.

Leadership

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President: Victor-André Masséna (since 13 December 2005).[12]

Vice President: Nicolas Walewski.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "St Helena Appeal". Fondation Napoleon. 2016. Archived from the original on 7 March 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. ^ "Statue of Napoleon in Rouen: "it is a question of respecting our history"". napoleon.org. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Rouen : la statue Napoléon inscrite au titre des monuments historiques". France 3 Normandie (in French). 22 December 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  5. ^ a b "The Correspondence of Napoleon". Fondation Napoleon. 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Napoleonica.org". www.napoleonica.org. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  7. ^ "Bibliothèque-Library - Bibliothèque numérique Digital Library". Fondation Napoléon. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre Library". Fondation Napoleon. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  9. ^ "napoleon.org - Le site d'histoire de la Fondation Napoléon". napoleon.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  10. ^ "Napoleonica, archives et documents napoléoniens". www.napoleonica.org. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Revue Napoleonica. La Revue - Cairn.info". Cairn.info. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  12. ^ a b "Board of Trustees". Fondation Napoleon. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
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