AFTER future generations would THE ROCK OF DESTINY EXHIBITION Colloquium remember Napoleon I. Waterloo Meetings SAINT HELENA. In July 1821, Europe learned 24 March 2016 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FROM SHADOW of the death of Napoleon EXHIBITION CURATORS LEAVING SAINT HELENA on Saint Helena. Though NAPOLEON IN SAINT HELENA TO LIGHT Emilie Robbe, Head curator Conferences Even beyond the grave, unconfirmed, the news of and head of the Modern The Eagle On The Island Play and try to win an exceptionnal trip to Saint Helena Napoleon continued to have his death in the bosom of THE FINAL VICTORY Department at the Musée From 19 to 30 May 2016 island by answering the following three questions on the an influence on political life. the church moved his critics. competition tablet at the exit of the exhibition : On 27 May, 1821, the Amongst them, the poet de l’Armée Some wished his name to be Concerts Bertrand family, Montholon, Alphonse de Lamartine Michel Dancoisne-Martineau erased from history; others The Napoleonic Legend What is the name of Napoleon’s jailer in Saint Helena ? Dr Antommarchi, Abbé concluded: “His coffin is Honorary Consul of France, wanted to honour him. In In Music  Hudson Lowe Vignali, and the servants sealed! God has judged him! Director of the National 1840, King Louis-Philippe From 7 April  Barry O’Meara Marchand, Ali, Coursot, Silence!”. Estates of Saint Helena I attempted a gesture of to 20 June 2016  Rear Admiral Cockburn and Archambault embarked national unity. With British At Longwood, the Emperor for Europe. They left in staged his demise carefully, PROJECT MANAGEMENT What is the name of the ship aboard which Napoleon agreement, he sent his son, Cinema their wake Longwood and even going so far as to went to Saint Helena? the Prince de Joinville, to Exhibition A Caged Eagle the British and Chinese explain to the Comte de Saint Helena, to bring back and lighting design 3 and 10 June 2016  HMS Bellerophon furniture, which the island the illustrious corpse. After Montholon: “If Jesus Christ Vincen Cornu Architecture  HMS Northumberland notables shared out between has not died on the cross, he some hesitation, the Hôtel Graphic design Find all the latest  La Belle-Poule them. The very same who in des Invalides was chosen as would not have been God.” Villar+Vera The Future of Statues information about the How many candles can you count on the chandelier 1815 had provided Napoleon the final resting place. After his death, eyewitness René Magritte, sculpture. 1932. exhibition programme and with the furniture they no accounts completed this of the salon ? The members of the © Lehmbruck Museum CATALOGUE events on musee-armee.fr longer wanted. metamorphosis. Locks of  Ten expedition were for the PUBLISHED BY or on the museum app. Though the last of his most part those who had hair, leaves from the willows  Eleven faithful companions shared Napoleon’s exile: over the tomb, and the Éditions Gallimard  Twelve were forced to leave the Bertrand and his son, Arthur, mementos that his faithful 297 pages, 250 ill. in colour INFORMATION Emperor’s body behind Gourgaud, Las Cases’ son, attendants distributed Price €35 WHAT CAN YOU WIN ? them, they nevertheless took Marchand, and Ali, to name became relics of a new TICKETS A one week trip to Saint Helena island, with them the manuscripts but the best known. On 15 cult. 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Tours schedule online Café – Restaurant IN SAINT HELENA attempting to complete displayed in a chapel in the The real shape of island Le Carré des Invalides the story, they in the end Dôme des Invalides until disappeared behind the Information and booking: Open every day HIS FIGHT changed quite considerably it was transferred to the symbol. [email protected] FOR HIS STORY the way contemporaries and monumental crypt in 1861. EXHIBITION 6 April – 24 July 2016 HISTORICAL Contacts with the outside OCTOBER 1819 - EXHIBITION the Provisional Government island was the perfect choice LONGWOOD HOUSE, SAINT HELENA. THE FINAL HOUR A BARE TOMBSTONE world were restricted. JANUARY 1820 constituted and gathered as far as discouraging escape THE FINAL RESIDENCE IN THE SANE VALLEY THE ULTIMATE On Saint Helena, the TIMELINE Expenditure was closely HOPE ITINERARY around Fouché, ex-Minister attempts was concerned. As for a place to live, the Emperor was beaten, far On the road from monitored. Several members New members arrived of Police, showed him the It belonged to the British BATTLE 1814-1840 Governor’s residence, from those he loved, reduced Jamestown, along the crater of the Emperor’s retinue to join Napoleon’s retinue, SAINT HELENA. door and the road to exile. East India Company and was Plantation House, was out to passivity both by his jailers of the Devil’s Punch Bowl, sits were forcibly sent away. including two priests and THE EMPEROR’S A small entourage was THE BATTLE a stopping off point for of the question. For the time and his own behaviour. a verdant valley. Napoleon APRIL 1814 - FEBRUARY 1815 a new doctor. The Emperor quickly constituted around AT SAINT HELENA EXILE merchant vessels on their that a suitable place was The good times, like those discovered it on one of his EXILE ON ELBA JANUARY 1817 - came out of reclusion from him. The clothes, table way to the Indies. Defence being prepared, Admiral Living conditions at spent at The Briars with the excursions and particularly JANUARY 1818 his apartments and oversaw services, and silverware that MARCH - JUNE 1815 FROM THE ÉLYSÉE of the Saint Helena coastline Cockburn installed Napoleon Longwood, exacerbated by Balcombes in 1815, were enjoyed the spring water QUARRELS AMONG the complete overhaul of the were packed into boxes for THE HUNDRED DAYS PALACE TO SAINT was beefed up with military on the domain at the Briars. the poor relations with the past. Occasional moments there. It was here that he HIS ENTOURAGE gardens. His bedroom and the exile were simply those HELENA units added to those already Napoleon lived there in a Governor, were terrible. The of enthusiasm drove him to wished to be buried, well JUNE 1815 Rivalries between General study were redecorated. which fell to hand. stationed on the island. For small pavilion, kindly cared setting inspired ennui, the write or garden energetically, aware that he could not be WATERLOO AND Gourgaud and the Waterloo. 18 June, 1815, Here began the fallen the period of Napoleon’s for by the owners, the house and resources provided but his morale and his health buried on French soil. On 6 Napoleon I on his death bed, THE ABDICATION Montholon family created JULY 1820 - MARCH 1821 9.15 pm. Emperor’s long road detention, the island was Balcombe family. The cheeky were deliberately threadbare, began failing rapidly after May, 1821, a tomb was dug in one hour before his burial. more and more problems RELAPSE The French army from Paris to Longwood Camp bed used by Napoleon 1843 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1815 to be run by a Lieutenant behaviour of the youngest on Saint Helena. and the captivity caused 1817. No longer having shade of two willow trees. The Emperor’s health House, on the island of Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse THREE MONTHS AT SEA for the lives of the captives. commanded by Napoleon I General answerable directly daughter, Betsy, brightened Marie-Jean Desouches disagreements amongst his anything to do, he decided no After the autopsy, performed deteriorated in spite Saint Helena, passing via © Musée national des châteaux Any hope of one day leaving was defeated by a British to the British Minister for slightly Napoleon’s © Musée national des châteaux entourage. Regardless, the longer to be. by Dr Antommarchi, the de Malmaison et Bois-Préau OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1815 of several attempts to Malmaison, the Ile d’Aix, and de Malmaison et Bois-Préau the island diminished. force under the orders of the War and the Colonies. melancholy days. Emperor had already decided For Great Britain, and the Emperor’s body was laid out SEVEN WEEKS AT BRIARS encourage him out into the the English south coast. The Emperor’s health the Duke of Wellington, Admiral Cockburn was the On 10 December, he moved aboard the Northumberland Governor under government in the bed chamber, which Napoleon spent his first fresh air. He shut himself deteriorated rapidly. and by Prussian soldiers first incumbent, and he was to Longwood Farm, on a that he would fight for the orders, the responsibility for thereby became a chapel of weeks at Briars Pavilion, away again in his rooms. under Marshal Blücher. The ISLAND PRISON replaced by Sir Hudson barren plain. There, the only thing he had left. guarding Napoleon cut two rest. On 9 May, the funeral in the garden of the FEBRUARY - JULY 1818 The building of New defeated emperor returned The European powers Lowe, who arrived terrain acted as a brake on “I want to write about the ways. Firstly, it was a question cortège left Longwood. The Balcombe family home. CRISIS AND DESERTION Longwood was completed to Paris on horseback. considered the fallen on 14 April, 1816. the clouds, creating one of great things we have done of holding firm, preventing British gave Napoleon the He received many visitors Rising tensions caused but the Emperor refused to Exhausted and discouraged, Emperor a prisoner. At the beginning of the least sunny and most- together!” he had said in escape and any desire to honours due to a General. and attempted to persuade a serious crisis among the move out. he reached the Élysée Britain was designated Napoleon’s exile, humid places on the whole 1814 to his faithful soldiers return to the political stage. The Emperor’s body was laid Europe to renege on its members of Napoleon’s Palace on 21 June, only as responsible for his newspapers and caricaturists island. The weather was as he left for the island of But it was also important to to rest in four nesting coffins decision to exile him on retinue. The sudden death 17 MARCH - 5 MAY 1821 to be faced with another detention, but under gleefully underlined the most frequently dominated Elba. On Saint Helena, with avoid exposing the country – one of tin, another of exotic the island of Saint Helena. of Cipriani, his butler and FINAL DAYS defeat. Under pressure the watchful eye of disparity between the image by wind and mist, even in its ineluctable atmosphere of to the accusation of being wood, one of lead and a final confidant, broke the chain of The Emperor died from the two Chambers of commissioners which that Napoleon had carefully summer. The only view of the things falling apart, the past responsible, even indirectly, coffin of teak. DECEMBER 1815 - APRIL 1816 clandestine correspondence on 5 May 1821 at 5.49 pm. government, he abdicated Austria, Russia, Prussia, constructed for himself sea was rarely clear. gradually took on a capital for Napoleon’s death. The tomb was covered with MOVE TO LONGWOOD with Europe and deeply importance. The more the JULY - DECEMBER 1840 in favour of his son, then and France were to send. (and to which he remained Guard houses were built The Emperor realised this three flag stones taken from Controlled by an inflexible affected Napoleon. His space closed in around him, THE RETURN OF HIS five years old. He suggested Given that Saint Helena was more than ever attached), to control the one road dilemma and tried to take the kitchen in New House. etiquette, life at the small health declined even further. the more time itself became court was completely ASHES that he could become a 2 000 km off the coast of namely, a limitless ambition, into Longwood. On the his revenge by writing in The French wanted to have simple general and defend West Africa and 5 600 km compared to his tiny domain leaving the area where he for the Emperor a key his will: “I die prematurely, the words “Napoléon. Né dictated by the Emperor. AUGUST 1818 - battleground. He received many visitors. France from invasion, but east of Buenos Aires, the on the island. had freedom of movement, assassinated by the English à Ajaccio le 15 août 1769, SEPTEMBER 1819 Napoleon had to be He organised his life like oligarchy and its assassin mort à Sainte-Hélène le 5 More and more clandestine DERELICTION a military campaign. His messages were sent accompanied by a British [Lowe]. The English nation mai 1821”, (Napoleon. Born Napoleon turned into a officer. He refused. Nor did entourage became his staff will not be slow in avenging in Ajaccio on 15 August, to Napoleon. virtual recluse. Since the General view of Saint Helena, headquarters and imperial Print he go to the Governor’s me.” 1769, died on Saint Helena, choice of doctor was a bone © Fondation Thiers dinners, where his imperial guard, and he worked them 5 May, 1821) inscribed on MAY - DECEMBER 1816 of contention between the pitilessly. The British, with CONFRONTATION status would not be the stone, but the Governor Emperor and Hudson Lowe, recognised. As for the horse Governor Lowe at the head, wished to have the name WITH THE GOVERNOR Napoleon went 14 months became the enemy par The new governor made it races, one of the island’s Bonaparte added to this. No without regular medical excellence. Everyone, in one clear to Napoleon he was principal entertainments, he compromise was reached attention. He did his utmost way or another, ended up the prisoner of the European watched from far off through for this the last manifestation to annoy the governor, writing their version of the powers. Napoleon, insulted, a telescope. of the conflict that had notably by hiding himself story. History then became broke all ties with him. He allowed the space to characterised the exile. away from those charged close in around him, vicelike. the last battlefield. How he The tombstone was left bare. with keeping watch on him. would be remembered was to become the final victory. HISTORICAL Contacts with the outside OCTOBER 1819 - EXHIBITION the Provisional Government island was the perfect choice LONGWOOD HOUSE, SAINT HELENA. THE FINAL HOUR A BARE TOMBSTONE world were restricted. JANUARY 1820 constituted and gathered as far as discouraging escape THE FINAL RESIDENCE IN THE SANE VALLEY THE ULTIMATE On Saint Helena, the TIMELINE Expenditure was closely HOPE ITINERARY around Fouché, ex-Minister attempts was concerned. As for a place to live, the Emperor was beaten, far On the road from monitored. Several members New members arrived of Police, showed him the It belonged to the British BATTLE 1814-1840 Governor’s residence, from those he loved, reduced Jamestown, along the crater of the Emperor’s retinue to join Napoleon’s retinue, SAINT HELENA. door and the road to exile. East India Company and was Plantation House, was out to passivity both by his jailers of the Devil’s Punch Bowl, sits were forcibly sent away. including two priests and THE EMPEROR’S A small entourage was THE BATTLE a stopping off point for of the question. For the time and his own behaviour. a verdant valley. Napoleon APRIL 1814 - FEBRUARY 1815 a new doctor. The Emperor quickly constituted around AT SAINT HELENA EXILE merchant vessels on their that a suitable place was The good times, like those discovered it on one of his EXILE ON ELBA JANUARY 1817 - came out of reclusion from him. The clothes, table way to the Indies. Defence being prepared, Admiral Living conditions at spent at The Briars with the excursions and particularly JANUARY 1818 his apartments and oversaw services, and silverware that MARCH - JUNE 1815 FROM THE ÉLYSÉE of the Saint Helena coastline Cockburn installed Napoleon Longwood, exacerbated by Balcombes in 1815, were enjoyed the spring water QUARRELS AMONG the complete overhaul of the were packed into boxes for THE HUNDRED DAYS PALACE TO SAINT was beefed up with military on the domain at the Briars. the poor relations with the past. Occasional moments there. It was here that he HIS ENTOURAGE gardens. His bedroom and the exile were simply those HELENA units added to those already Napoleon lived there in a Governor, were terrible. The of enthusiasm drove him to wished to be buried, well JUNE 1815 Rivalries between General study were redecorated. which fell to hand. stationed on the island. For small pavilion, kindly cared setting inspired ennui, the write or garden energetically, aware that he could not be WATERLOO AND Gourgaud and the Waterloo. 18 June, 1815, Here began the fallen the period of Napoleon’s for by the owners, the house and resources provided but his morale and his health buried on French soil. On 6 Napoleon I on his death bed, THE ABDICATION Montholon family created JULY 1820 - MARCH 1821 9.15 pm. Emperor’s long road detention, the island was Balcombe family. The cheeky were deliberately threadbare, began failing rapidly after May, 1821, a tomb was dug in one hour before his burial. more and more problems RELAPSE The French army from Paris to Longwood Camp bed used by Napoleon 1843 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1815 to be run by a Lieutenant behaviour of the youngest on Saint Helena. and the captivity caused 1817. No longer having shade of two willow trees. The Emperor’s health House, on the island of Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse THREE MONTHS AT SEA for the lives of the captives. commanded by Napoleon I General answerable directly daughter, Betsy, brightened Marie-Jean Desouches disagreements amongst his anything to do, he decided no After the autopsy, performed deteriorated in spite Saint Helena, passing via © Musée national des châteaux Any hope of one day leaving was defeated by a British to the British Minister for slightly Napoleon’s © Musée national des châteaux entourage. Regardless, the longer to be. by Dr Antommarchi, the de Malmaison et Bois-Préau OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1815 of several attempts to Malmaison, the Ile d’Aix, and de Malmaison et Bois-Préau the island diminished. force under the orders of the War and the Colonies. melancholy days. Emperor had already decided For Great Britain, and the Emperor’s body was laid out SEVEN WEEKS AT BRIARS encourage him out into the the English south coast. The Emperor’s health the Duke of Wellington, Admiral Cockburn was the On 10 December, he moved aboard the Northumberland Governor under government in the bed chamber, which Napoleon spent his first fresh air. He shut himself deteriorated rapidly. and by Prussian soldiers first incumbent, and he was to Longwood Farm, on a that he would fight for the orders, the responsibility for thereby became a chapel of weeks at Briars Pavilion, away again in his rooms. under Marshal Blücher. The ISLAND PRISON replaced by Sir Hudson barren plain. There, the only thing he had left. guarding Napoleon cut two rest. On 9 May, the funeral in the garden of the FEBRUARY - JULY 1818 The building of New defeated emperor returned The European powers Lowe, who arrived terrain acted as a brake on “I want to write about the ways. Firstly, it was a question cortège left Longwood. The Balcombe family home. CRISIS AND DESERTION Longwood was completed to Paris on horseback. considered the fallen on 14 April, 1816. the clouds, creating one of great things we have done of holding firm, preventing British gave Napoleon the He received many visitors Rising tensions caused but the Emperor refused to Exhausted and discouraged, Emperor a prisoner. At the beginning of the least sunny and most- together!” he had said in escape and any desire to honours due to a General. and attempted to persuade a serious crisis among the move out. he reached the Élysée Britain was designated Napoleon’s exile, humid places on the whole 1814 to his faithful soldiers return to the political stage. The Emperor’s body was laid Europe to renege on its members of Napoleon’s Palace on 21 June, only as responsible for his newspapers and caricaturists island. The weather was as he left for the island of But it was also important to to rest in four nesting coffins decision to exile him on retinue. The sudden death 17 MARCH - 5 MAY 1821 to be faced with another detention, but under gleefully underlined the most frequently dominated Elba. On Saint Helena, with avoid exposing the country – one of tin, another of exotic the island of Saint Helena. of Cipriani, his butler and FINAL DAYS defeat. Under pressure the watchful eye of disparity between the image by wind and mist, even in its ineluctable atmosphere of to the accusation of being wood, one of lead and a final confidant, broke the chain of The Emperor died from the two Chambers of commissioners which that Napoleon had carefully summer. The only view of the things falling apart, the past responsible, even indirectly, coffin of teak. DECEMBER 1815 - APRIL 1816 clandestine correspondence on 5 May 1821 at 5.49 pm. government, he abdicated Austria, Russia, Prussia, constructed for himself sea was rarely clear. gradually took on a capital for Napoleon’s death. The tomb was covered with MOVE TO LONGWOOD with Europe and deeply importance. The more the JULY - DECEMBER 1840 in favour of his son, then and France were to send. (and to which he remained Guard houses were built The Emperor realised this three flag stones taken from Controlled by an inflexible affected Napoleon. His space closed in around him, THE RETURN OF HIS five years old. He suggested Given that Saint Helena was more than ever attached), to control the one road dilemma and tried to take the kitchen in New House. etiquette, life at the small health declined even further. the more time itself became court was completely ASHES that he could become a 2 000 km off the coast of namely, a limitless ambition, into Longwood. On the his revenge by writing in The French wanted to have simple general and defend West Africa and 5 600 km compared to his tiny domain leaving the area where he for the Emperor a key his will: “I die prematurely, the words “Napoléon. Né dictated by the Emperor. AUGUST 1818 - battleground. He received many visitors. France from invasion, but east of Buenos Aires, the on the island. had freedom of movement, assassinated by the English à Ajaccio le 15 août 1769, SEPTEMBER 1819 Napoleon had to be He organised his life like oligarchy and its assassin mort à Sainte-Hélène le 5 More and more clandestine DERELICTION a military campaign. His messages were sent accompanied by a British [Lowe]. The English nation mai 1821”, (Napoleon. Born Napoleon turned into a officer. He refused. Nor did entourage became his staff will not be slow in avenging in Ajaccio on 15 August, to Napoleon. virtual recluse. Since the General view of Saint Helena, headquarters and imperial Print he go to the Governor’s me.” 1769, died on Saint Helena, choice of doctor was a bone © Fondation Thiers dinners, where his imperial guard, and he worked them 5 May, 1821) inscribed on MAY - DECEMBER 1816 of contention between the pitilessly. The British, with CONFRONTATION status would not be the stone, but the Governor Emperor and Hudson Lowe, recognised. As for the horse Governor Lowe at the head, wished to have the name WITH THE GOVERNOR Napoleon went 14 months became the enemy par The new governor made it races, one of the island’s Bonaparte added to this. No without regular medical excellence. Everyone, in one clear to Napoleon he was principal entertainments, he compromise was reached attention. He did his utmost way or another, ended up the prisoner of the European watched from far off through for this the last manifestation to annoy the governor, writing their version of the powers. Napoleon, insulted, a telescope. of the conflict that had notably by hiding himself story. History then became broke all ties with him. He allowed the space to characterised the exile. away from those charged close in around him, vicelike. the last battlefield. How he The tombstone was left bare. with keeping watch on him. would be remembered was to become the final victory. HISTORICAL Contacts with the outside OCTOBER 1819 - EXHIBITION the Provisional Government island was the perfect choice LONGWOOD HOUSE, SAINT HELENA. THE FINAL HOUR A BARE TOMBSTONE world were restricted. JANUARY 1820 constituted and gathered as far as discouraging escape THE FINAL RESIDENCE IN THE SANE VALLEY THE ULTIMATE On Saint Helena, the TIMELINE Expenditure was closely HOPE ITINERARY around Fouché, ex-Minister attempts was concerned. As for a place to live, the Emperor was beaten, far On the road from monitored. Several members New members arrived of Police, showed him the It belonged to the British BATTLE 1814-1840 Governor’s residence, from those he loved, reduced Jamestown, along the crater of the Emperor’s retinue to join Napoleon’s retinue, SAINT HELENA. door and the road to exile. East India Company and was Plantation House, was out to passivity both by his jailers of the Devil’s Punch Bowl, sits were forcibly sent away. including two priests and THE EMPEROR’S A small entourage was THE BATTLE a stopping off point for of the question. For the time and his own behaviour. a verdant valley. Napoleon APRIL 1814 - FEBRUARY 1815 a new doctor. The Emperor quickly constituted around AT SAINT HELENA EXILE merchant vessels on their that a suitable place was The good times, like those discovered it on one of his EXILE ON ELBA JANUARY 1817 - came out of reclusion from him. The clothes, table way to the Indies. Defence being prepared, Admiral Living conditions at spent at The Briars with the excursions and particularly JANUARY 1818 his apartments and oversaw services, and silverware that MARCH - JUNE 1815 FROM THE ÉLYSÉE of the Saint Helena coastline Cockburn installed Napoleon Longwood, exacerbated by Balcombes in 1815, were enjoyed the spring water QUARRELS AMONG the complete overhaul of the were packed into boxes for THE HUNDRED DAYS PALACE TO SAINT was beefed up with military on the domain at the Briars. the poor relations with the past. Occasional moments there. It was here that he HIS ENTOURAGE gardens. His bedroom and the exile were simply those HELENA units added to those already Napoleon lived there in a Governor, were terrible. The of enthusiasm drove him to wished to be buried, well JUNE 1815 Rivalries between General study were redecorated. which fell to hand. stationed on the island. For small pavilion, kindly cared setting inspired ennui, the write or garden energetically, aware that he could not be WATERLOO AND Gourgaud and the Waterloo. 18 June, 1815, Here began the fallen the period of Napoleon’s for by the owners, the house and resources provided but his morale and his health buried on French soil. On 6 Napoleon I on his death bed, THE ABDICATION Montholon family created JULY 1820 - MARCH 1821 9.15 pm. Emperor’s long road detention, the island was Balcombe family. The cheeky were deliberately threadbare, began failing rapidly after May, 1821, a tomb was dug in one hour before his burial. more and more problems RELAPSE The French army from Paris to Longwood Camp bed used by Napoleon 1843 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1815 to be run by a Lieutenant behaviour of the youngest on Saint Helena. and the captivity caused 1817. No longer having shade of two willow trees. The Emperor’s health House, on the island of Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse THREE MONTHS AT SEA for the lives of the captives. commanded by Napoleon I General answerable directly daughter, Betsy, brightened Marie-Jean Desouches disagreements amongst his anything to do, he decided no After the autopsy, performed deteriorated in spite Saint Helena, passing via © Musée national des châteaux Any hope of one day leaving was defeated by a British to the British Minister for slightly Napoleon’s © Musée national des châteaux entourage. Regardless, the longer to be. by Dr Antommarchi, the de Malmaison et Bois-Préau OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1815 of several attempts to Malmaison, the Ile d’Aix, and de Malmaison et Bois-Préau the island diminished. force under the orders of the War and the Colonies. melancholy days. Emperor had already decided For Great Britain, and the Emperor’s body was laid out SEVEN WEEKS AT BRIARS encourage him out into the the English south coast. The Emperor’s health the Duke of Wellington, Admiral Cockburn was the On 10 December, he moved aboard the Northumberland Governor under government in the bed chamber, which Napoleon spent his first fresh air. He shut himself deteriorated rapidly. and by Prussian soldiers first incumbent, and he was to Longwood Farm, on a that he would fight for the orders, the responsibility for thereby became a chapel of weeks at Briars Pavilion, away again in his rooms. under Marshal Blücher. The ISLAND PRISON replaced by Sir Hudson barren plain. There, the only thing he had left. guarding Napoleon cut two rest. On 9 May, the funeral in the garden of the FEBRUARY - JULY 1818 The building of New defeated emperor returned The European powers Lowe, who arrived terrain acted as a brake on “I want to write about the ways. Firstly, it was a question cortège left Longwood. The Balcombe family home. CRISIS AND DESERTION Longwood was completed to Paris on horseback. considered the fallen on 14 April, 1816. the clouds, creating one of great things we have done of holding firm, preventing British gave Napoleon the He received many visitors Rising tensions caused but the Emperor refused to Exhausted and discouraged, Emperor a prisoner. At the beginning of the least sunny and most- together!” he had said in escape and any desire to honours due to a General. and attempted to persuade a serious crisis among the move out. he reached the Élysée Britain was designated Napoleon’s exile, humid places on the whole 1814 to his faithful soldiers return to the political stage. The Emperor’s body was laid Europe to renege on its members of Napoleon’s Palace on 21 June, only as responsible for his newspapers and caricaturists island. The weather was as he left for the island of But it was also important to to rest in four nesting coffins decision to exile him on retinue. The sudden death 17 MARCH - 5 MAY 1821 to be faced with another detention, but under gleefully underlined the most frequently dominated Elba. On Saint Helena, with avoid exposing the country – one of tin, another of exotic the island of Saint Helena. of Cipriani, his butler and FINAL DAYS defeat. Under pressure the watchful eye of disparity between the image by wind and mist, even in its ineluctable atmosphere of to the accusation of being wood, one of lead and a final confidant, broke the chain of The Emperor died from the two Chambers of commissioners which that Napoleon had carefully summer. The only view of the things falling apart, the past responsible, even indirectly, coffin of teak. DECEMBER 1815 - APRIL 1816 clandestine correspondence on 5 May 1821 at 5.49 pm. government, he abdicated Austria, Russia, Prussia, constructed for himself sea was rarely clear. gradually took on a capital for Napoleon’s death. The tomb was covered with MOVE TO LONGWOOD with Europe and deeply importance. The more the JULY - DECEMBER 1840 in favour of his son, then and France were to send. (and to which he remained Guard houses were built The Emperor realised this three flag stones taken from Controlled by an inflexible affected Napoleon. His space closed in around him, THE RETURN OF HIS five years old. He suggested Given that Saint Helena was more than ever attached), to control the one road dilemma and tried to take the kitchen in New House. etiquette, life at the small health declined even further. the more time itself became court was completely ASHES that he could become a 2 000 km off the coast of namely, a limitless ambition, into Longwood. On the his revenge by writing in The French wanted to have simple general and defend West Africa and 5 600 km compared to his tiny domain leaving the area where he for the Emperor a key his will: “I die prematurely, the words “Napoléon. Né dictated by the Emperor. AUGUST 1818 - battleground. He received many visitors. France from invasion, but east of Buenos Aires, the on the island. had freedom of movement, assassinated by the English à Ajaccio le 15 août 1769, SEPTEMBER 1819 Napoleon had to be He organised his life like oligarchy and its assassin mort à Sainte-Hélène le 5 More and more clandestine DERELICTION a military campaign. His messages were sent accompanied by a British [Lowe]. The English nation mai 1821”, (Napoleon. Born Napoleon turned into a officer. He refused. Nor did entourage became his staff will not be slow in avenging in Ajaccio on 15 August, to Napoleon. virtual recluse. Since the General view of Saint Helena, headquarters and imperial Print he go to the Governor’s me.” 1769, died on Saint Helena, choice of doctor was a bone © Fondation Thiers dinners, where his imperial guard, and he worked them 5 May, 1821) inscribed on MAY - DECEMBER 1816 of contention between the pitilessly. The British, with CONFRONTATION status would not be the stone, but the Governor Emperor and Hudson Lowe, recognised. As for the horse Governor Lowe at the head, wished to have the name WITH THE GOVERNOR Napoleon went 14 months became the enemy par The new governor made it races, one of the island’s Bonaparte added to this. No without regular medical excellence. Everyone, in one clear to Napoleon he was principal entertainments, he compromise was reached attention. He did his utmost way or another, ended up the prisoner of the European watched from far off through for this the last manifestation to annoy the governor, writing their version of the powers. Napoleon, insulted, a telescope. of the conflict that had notably by hiding himself story. History then became broke all ties with him. He allowed the space to characterised the exile. away from those charged close in around him, vicelike. the last battlefield. How he The tombstone was left bare. with keeping watch on him. would be remembered was to become the final victory. HISTORICAL Contacts with the outside OCTOBER 1819 - EXHIBITION the Provisional Government island was the perfect choice LONGWOOD HOUSE, SAINT HELENA. THE FINAL HOUR A BARE TOMBSTONE world were restricted. JANUARY 1820 constituted and gathered as far as discouraging escape THE FINAL RESIDENCE IN THE SANE VALLEY THE ULTIMATE On Saint Helena, the TIMELINE Expenditure was closely HOPE ITINERARY around Fouché, ex-Minister attempts was concerned. As for a place to live, the Emperor was beaten, far On the road from monitored. Several members New members arrived of Police, showed him the It belonged to the British BATTLE 1814-1840 Governor’s residence, from those he loved, reduced Jamestown, along the crater of the Emperor’s retinue to join Napoleon’s retinue, SAINT HELENA. door and the road to exile. East India Company and was Plantation House, was out to passivity both by his jailers of the Devil’s Punch Bowl, sits were forcibly sent away. including two priests and THE EMPEROR’S A small entourage was THE BATTLE a stopping off point for of the question. For the time and his own behaviour. a verdant valley. Napoleon APRIL 1814 - FEBRUARY 1815 a new doctor. The Emperor quickly constituted around AT SAINT HELENA EXILE merchant vessels on their that a suitable place was The good times, like those discovered it on one of his EXILE ON ELBA JANUARY 1817 - came out of reclusion from him. The clothes, table way to the Indies. Defence being prepared, Admiral Living conditions at spent at The Briars with the excursions and particularly JANUARY 1818 his apartments and oversaw services, and silverware that MARCH - JUNE 1815 FROM THE ÉLYSÉE of the Saint Helena coastline Cockburn installed Napoleon Longwood, exacerbated by Balcombes in 1815, were enjoyed the spring water QUARRELS AMONG the complete overhaul of the were packed into boxes for THE HUNDRED DAYS PALACE TO SAINT was beefed up with military on the domain at the Briars. the poor relations with the past. Occasional moments there. It was here that he HIS ENTOURAGE gardens. His bedroom and the exile were simply those HELENA units added to those already Napoleon lived there in a Governor, were terrible. The of enthusiasm drove him to wished to be buried, well JUNE 1815 Rivalries between General study were redecorated. which fell to hand. stationed on the island. For small pavilion, kindly cared setting inspired ennui, the write or garden energetically, aware that he could not be WATERLOO AND Gourgaud and the Waterloo. 18 June, 1815, Here began the fallen the period of Napoleon’s for by the owners, the house and resources provided but his morale and his health buried on French soil. On 6 Napoleon I on his death bed, THE ABDICATION Montholon family created JULY 1820 - MARCH 1821 9.15 pm. Emperor’s long road detention, the island was Balcombe family. The cheeky were deliberately threadbare, began failing rapidly after May, 1821, a tomb was dug in one hour before his burial. more and more problems RELAPSE The French army from Paris to Longwood Camp bed used by Napoleon 1843 JULY - SEPTEMBER 1815 to be run by a Lieutenant behaviour of the youngest on Saint Helena. and the captivity caused 1817. No longer having shade of two willow trees. The Emperor’s health House, on the island of Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse THREE MONTHS AT SEA for the lives of the captives. commanded by Napoleon I General answerable directly daughter, Betsy, brightened Marie-Jean Desouches disagreements amongst his anything to do, he decided no After the autopsy, performed deteriorated in spite Saint Helena, passing via © Musée national des châteaux Any hope of one day leaving was defeated by a British to the British Minister for slightly Napoleon’s © Musée national des châteaux entourage. Regardless, the longer to be. by Dr Antommarchi, the de Malmaison et Bois-Préau OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1815 of several attempts to Malmaison, the Ile d’Aix, and de Malmaison et Bois-Préau the island diminished. force under the orders of the War and the Colonies. melancholy days. Emperor had already decided For Great Britain, and the Emperor’s body was laid out SEVEN WEEKS AT BRIARS encourage him out into the the English south coast. The Emperor’s health the Duke of Wellington, Admiral Cockburn was the On 10 December, he moved aboard the Northumberland Governor under government in the bed chamber, which Napoleon spent his first fresh air. He shut himself deteriorated rapidly. and by Prussian soldiers first incumbent, and he was to Longwood Farm, on a that he would fight for the orders, the responsibility for thereby became a chapel of weeks at Briars Pavilion, away again in his rooms. under Marshal Blücher. The ISLAND PRISON replaced by Sir Hudson barren plain. There, the only thing he had left. guarding Napoleon cut two rest. On 9 May, the funeral in the garden of the FEBRUARY - JULY 1818 The building of New defeated emperor returned The European powers Lowe, who arrived terrain acted as a brake on “I want to write about the ways. Firstly, it was a question cortège left Longwood. The Balcombe family home. CRISIS AND DESERTION Longwood was completed to Paris on horseback. considered the fallen on 14 April, 1816. the clouds, creating one of great things we have done of holding firm, preventing British gave Napoleon the He received many visitors Rising tensions caused but the Emperor refused to Exhausted and discouraged, Emperor a prisoner. At the beginning of the least sunny and most- together!” he had said in escape and any desire to honours due to a General. and attempted to persuade a serious crisis among the move out. he reached the Élysée Britain was designated Napoleon’s exile, humid places on the whole 1814 to his faithful soldiers return to the political stage. The Emperor’s body was laid Europe to renege on its members of Napoleon’s Palace on 21 June, only as responsible for his newspapers and caricaturists island. The weather was as he left for the island of But it was also important to to rest in four nesting coffins decision to exile him on retinue. The sudden death 17 MARCH - 5 MAY 1821 to be faced with another detention, but under gleefully underlined the most frequently dominated Elba. On Saint Helena, with avoid exposing the country – one of tin, another of exotic the island of Saint Helena. of Cipriani, his butler and FINAL DAYS defeat. Under pressure the watchful eye of disparity between the image by wind and mist, even in its ineluctable atmosphere of to the accusation of being wood, one of lead and a final confidant, broke the chain of The Emperor died from the two Chambers of commissioners which that Napoleon had carefully summer. The only view of the things falling apart, the past responsible, even indirectly, coffin of teak. DECEMBER 1815 - APRIL 1816 clandestine correspondence on 5 May 1821 at 5.49 pm. government, he abdicated Austria, Russia, Prussia, constructed for himself sea was rarely clear. gradually took on a capital for Napoleon’s death. The tomb was covered with MOVE TO LONGWOOD with Europe and deeply importance. The more the JULY - DECEMBER 1840 in favour of his son, then and France were to send. (and to which he remained Guard houses were built The Emperor realised this three flag stones taken from Controlled by an inflexible affected Napoleon. His space closed in around him, THE RETURN OF HIS five years old. He suggested Given that Saint Helena was more than ever attached), to control the one road dilemma and tried to take the kitchen in New House. etiquette, life at the small health declined even further. the more time itself became court was completely ASHES that he could become a 2 000 km off the coast of namely, a limitless ambition, into Longwood. On the his revenge by writing in The French wanted to have simple general and defend West Africa and 5 600 km compared to his tiny domain leaving the area where he for the Emperor a key his will: “I die prematurely, the words “Napoléon. Né dictated by the Emperor. AUGUST 1818 - battleground. He received many visitors. France from invasion, but east of Buenos Aires, the on the island. had freedom of movement, assassinated by the English à Ajaccio le 15 août 1769, SEPTEMBER 1819 Napoleon had to be He organised his life like oligarchy and its assassin mort à Sainte-Hélène le 5 More and more clandestine DERELICTION a military campaign. His messages were sent accompanied by a British [Lowe]. The English nation mai 1821”, (Napoleon. Born Napoleon turned into a officer. He refused. Nor did entourage became his staff will not be slow in avenging in Ajaccio on 15 August, to Napoleon. virtual recluse. Since the General view of Saint Helena, headquarters and imperial Print he go to the Governor’s me.” 1769, died on Saint Helena, choice of doctor was a bone © Fondation Thiers dinners, where his imperial guard, and he worked them 5 May, 1821) inscribed on MAY - DECEMBER 1816 of contention between the pitilessly. The British, with CONFRONTATION status would not be the stone, but the Governor Emperor and Hudson Lowe, recognised. As for the horse Governor Lowe at the head, wished to have the name WITH THE GOVERNOR Napoleon went 14 months became the enemy par The new governor made it races, one of the island’s Bonaparte added to this. No without regular medical excellence. Everyone, in one clear to Napoleon he was principal entertainments, he compromise was reached attention. He did his utmost way or another, ended up the prisoner of the European watched from far off through for this the last manifestation to annoy the governor, writing their version of the powers. Napoleon, insulted, a telescope. of the conflict that had notably by hiding himself story. History then became broke all ties with him. He allowed the space to characterised the exile. away from those charged close in around him, vicelike. the last battlefield. How he The tombstone was left bare. with keeping watch on him. would be remembered was to become the final victory. AFTER future generations would THE ROCK OF DESTINY EXHIBITION Colloquium remember Napoleon I. Waterloo Meetings SAINT HELENA. In July 1821, Europe learned 24 March 2016 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FROM SHADOW of the death of Napoleon EXHIBITION CURATORS LEAVING SAINT HELENA on Saint Helena. Though NAPOLEON IN SAINT HELENA TO LIGHT Emilie Robbe, Head curator Conferences Even beyond the grave, unconfirmed, the news of and head of the Modern The Eagle On The Island Play and try to win an exceptionnal trip to Saint Helena Napoleon continued to have his death in the bosom of THE FINAL VICTORY Department at the Musée From 19 to 30 May 2016 island by answering the following three questions on the an influence on political life. the church moved his critics. competition tablet at the exit of the exhibition : On 27 May, 1821, the Amongst them, the poet de l’Armée Some wished his name to be Concerts Bertrand family, Montholon, Alphonse de Lamartine Michel Dancoisne-Martineau erased from history; others The Napoleonic Legend What is the name of Napoleon’s jailer in Saint Helena ? Dr Antommarchi, Abbé concluded: “His coffin is Honorary Consul of France, wanted to honour him. In In Music  Hudson Lowe Vignali, and the servants sealed! God has judged him! Director of the National 1840, King Louis-Philippe From 7 April  Barry O’Meara Marchand, Ali, Coursot, Silence!”. Estates of Saint Helena I attempted a gesture of to 20 June 2016  Rear Admiral Cockburn and Archambault embarked national unity. With British At Longwood, the Emperor for Europe. They left in staged his demise carefully, PROJECT MANAGEMENT What is the name of the ship aboard which Napoleon agreement, he sent his son, Cinema their wake Longwood and even going so far as to went to Saint Helena? the Prince de Joinville, to Exhibition A Caged Eagle the British and Chinese explain to the Comte de Saint Helena, to bring back and lighting design 3 and 10 June 2016  HMS Bellerophon furniture, which the island the illustrious corpse. After Montholon: “If Jesus Christ Vincen Cornu Architecture  HMS Northumberland notables shared out between has not died on the cross, he some hesitation, the Hôtel Graphic design Find all the latest  La Belle-Poule them. The very same who in des Invalides was chosen as would not have been God.” Villar+Vera The Future of Statues information about the How many candles can you count on the chandelier 1815 had provided Napoleon the final resting place. After his death, eyewitness René Magritte, sculpture. 1932. exhibition programme and with the furniture they no accounts completed this of the salon ? The members of the © Lehmbruck Museum CATALOGUE events on musee-armee.fr longer wanted. metamorphosis. Locks of  Ten expedition were for the PUBLISHED BY or on the museum app. Though the last of his most part those who had hair, leaves from the willows  Eleven faithful companions shared Napoleon’s exile: over the tomb, and the Éditions Gallimard  Twelve were forced to leave the Bertrand and his son, Arthur, mementos that his faithful 297 pages, 250 ill. in colour INFORMATION Emperor’s body behind Gourgaud, Las Cases’ son, attendants distributed Price €35 WHAT CAN YOU WIN ? them, they nevertheless took Marchand, and Ali, to name became relics of a new TICKETS A one week trip to Saint Helena island, with them the manuscripts but the best known. On 15 cult. Death in exile on an flights and accommodation included*. 8.5€ exhibition of his memoirs, his will, his October, 1840, in driving island was compared to AROUND THE 12 € exhibition and death mask, and dozens rain, the tomb and then the hell; Napoleon came back permanent collections of objects marked by his four coffins were opened. transfigured. EXHIBITION Free under 18 presence, not to mention The body appeared perfectly “You tower over our epoch. their own remembrances. preserved. It was an intensely Angel or demon? Of no Adults guided tours: The final phase of the emotional experience. The importance!” said Victor [email protected] GROUPS battle took place far from parts of the teak coffin were Hugo of Napoleon. For the + 33 (0)825 05 44 05 7.5€ exhibition Saint Helena, though the handed out to those present. children of this century that (as of 10 pers., booking only) *For the complete terms and conditions, see at the entrance of the exhibition, and online at musee-armee.fr/ExpoNapoleonSainteHelene/. island was to remain central A new lead coffin was used in followed the Enlightenment, Young audience guided [email protected] to the argument. Later, its place, and this was nested Napoleon became a hero tours: of mythology. Saint Helena aiming to families and these witnesses of the exile in an ebony sarcophagus. Buy your ticket online Competition oganised with the generous support of Saint Helena tourism office. proclaimed tirelessly far and On their arrival at Cherbourg, at this point became the school students. Ask more musee-armee.fr wide not only the history the mortal remains were rock on which Prometheus, information about the tour of his reign as Napoleon borne up the river Seine. the Titan, was chained and itself, to organize a birthday SERVICES OPENING TIMES Musée de l’Armée himself had written it, but Paris received them eternally tortured by the party … Everyday but 1st May Hôtel des Invalides also the tribulations of the on 10 December. The eagle of Zeus for having Gift store and book-shop From 10 am to 6 pm 129 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris NAPOLEON Late openings on Tuesday, until 9 pm +33 (0)1 44 42 38 77 / musee-armee.fr final years. In this way, by sarcophagus was initially brought fire to mankind. Tours schedule online Café – Restaurant IN SAINT HELENA attempting to complete displayed in a chapel in the The real shape of island Le Carré des Invalides the story, they in the end Dôme des Invalides until disappeared behind the Information and booking: Open every day HIS FIGHT changed quite considerably it was transferred to the symbol. [email protected] FOR HIS STORY the way contemporaries and monumental crypt in 1861. EXHIBITION 6 April – 24 July 2016 AFTER future generations would THE ROCK OF DESTINY EXHIBITION Colloquium remember Napoleon I. Waterloo Meetings SAINT HELENA. In July 1821, Europe learned 24 March 2016 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FROM SHADOW of the death of Napoleon EXHIBITION CURATORS LEAVING SAINT HELENA on Saint Helena. Though NAPOLEON IN SAINT HELENA TO LIGHT Emilie Robbe, Head curator Conferences Even beyond the grave, unconfirmed, the news of and head of the Modern The Eagle On The Island Play and try to win an exceptionnal trip to Saint Helena Napoleon continued to have his death in the bosom of THE FINAL VICTORY Department at the Musée From 19 to 30 May 2016 island by answering the following three questions on the an influence on political life. the church moved his critics. competition tablet at the exit of the exhibition : On 27 May, 1821, the Amongst them, the poet de l’Armée Some wished his name to be Concerts Bertrand family, Montholon, Alphonse de Lamartine Michel Dancoisne-Martineau erased from history; others The Napoleonic Legend What is the name of Napoleon’s jailer in Saint Helena ? Dr Antommarchi, Abbé concluded: “His coffin is Honorary Consul of France, wanted to honour him. In In Music  Hudson Lowe Vignali, and the servants sealed! God has judged him! Director of the National 1840, King Louis-Philippe From 7 April  Barry O’Meara Marchand, Ali, Coursot, Silence!”. Estates of Saint Helena I attempted a gesture of to 20 June 2016  Rear Admiral Cockburn and Archambault embarked national unity. With British At Longwood, the Emperor for Europe. They left in staged his demise carefully, PROJECT MANAGEMENT What is the name of the ship aboard which Napoleon agreement, he sent his son, Cinema their wake Longwood and even going so far as to went to Saint Helena? the Prince de Joinville, to Exhibition A Caged Eagle the British and Chinese explain to the Comte de Saint Helena, to bring back and lighting design 3 and 10 June 2016  HMS Bellerophon furniture, which the island the illustrious corpse. After Montholon: “If Jesus Christ Vincen Cornu Architecture  HMS Northumberland notables shared out between has not died on the cross, he some hesitation, the Hôtel Graphic design Find all the latest  La Belle-Poule them. The very same who in des Invalides was chosen as would not have been God.” Villar+Vera The Future of Statues information about the How many candles can you count on the chandelier 1815 had provided Napoleon the final resting place. After his death, eyewitness René Magritte, sculpture. 1932. exhibition programme and with the furniture they no accounts completed this of the salon ? The members of the © Lehmbruck Museum CATALOGUE events on musee-armee.fr longer wanted. metamorphosis. Locks of  Ten expedition were for the PUBLISHED BY or on the museum app. Though the last of his most part those who had hair, leaves from the willows  Eleven faithful companions shared Napoleon’s exile: over the tomb, and the Éditions Gallimard  Twelve were forced to leave the Bertrand and his son, Arthur, mementos that his faithful 297 pages, 250 ill. in colour INFORMATION Emperor’s body behind Gourgaud, Las Cases’ son, attendants distributed Price €35 WHAT CAN YOU WIN ? them, they nevertheless took Marchand, and Ali, to name became relics of a new TICKETS A one week trip to Saint Helena island, with them the manuscripts but the best known. On 15 cult. Death in exile on an flights and accommodation included*. 8.5€ exhibition of his memoirs, his will, his October, 1840, in driving island was compared to AROUND THE 12 € exhibition and death mask, and dozens rain, the tomb and then the hell; Napoleon came back permanent collections of objects marked by his four coffins were opened. transfigured. EXHIBITION Free under 18 presence, not to mention The body appeared perfectly “You tower over our epoch. their own remembrances. preserved. It was an intensely Angel or demon? Of no Adults guided tours: The final phase of the emotional experience. The importance!” said Victor [email protected] GROUPS battle took place far from parts of the teak coffin were Hugo of Napoleon. For the + 33 (0)825 05 44 05 7.5€ exhibition Saint Helena, though the handed out to those present. children of this century that (as of 10 pers., booking only) *For the complete terms and conditions, see at the entrance of the exhibition, and online at musee-armee.fr/ExpoNapoleonSainteHelene/. island was to remain central A new lead coffin was used in followed the Enlightenment, Young audience guided [email protected] to the argument. Later, its place, and this was nested Napoleon became a hero tours: of mythology. Saint Helena aiming to families and these witnesses of the exile in an ebony sarcophagus. Buy your ticket online Competition oganised with the generous support of Saint Helena tourism office. proclaimed tirelessly far and On their arrival at Cherbourg, at this point became the school students. Ask more musee-armee.fr wide not only the history the mortal remains were rock on which Prometheus, information about the tour of his reign as Napoleon borne up the river Seine. the Titan, was chained and itself, to organize a birthday SERVICES OPENING TIMES Musée de l’Armée himself had written it, but Paris received them eternally tortured by the party … Everyday but 1st May Hôtel des Invalides also the tribulations of the on 10 December. The eagle of Zeus for having Gift store and book-shop From 10 am to 6 pm 129 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris NAPOLEON Late openings on Tuesday, until 9 pm +33 (0)1 44 42 38 77 / musee-armee.fr final years. In this way, by sarcophagus was initially brought fire to mankind. Tours schedule online Café – Restaurant IN SAINT HELENA attempting to complete displayed in a chapel in the The real shape of island Le Carré des Invalides the story, they in the end Dôme des Invalides until disappeared behind the Information and booking: Open every day HIS FIGHT changed quite considerably it was transferred to the symbol. [email protected] FOR HIS STORY the way contemporaries and monumental crypt in 1861. EXHIBITION 6 April – 24 July 2016 AFTER future generations would THE ROCK OF DESTINY EXHIBITION Colloquium remember Napoleon I. Waterloo Meetings SAINT HELENA. In July 1821, Europe learned 24 March 2016 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FROM SHADOW of the death of Napoleon EXHIBITION CURATORS LEAVING SAINT HELENA on Saint Helena. Though NAPOLEON IN SAINT HELENA TO LIGHT Emilie Robbe, Head curator Conferences Even beyond the grave, unconfirmed, the news of and head of the Modern The Eagle On The Island Play and try to win an exceptionnal trip to Saint Helena Napoleon continued to have his death in the bosom of THE FINAL VICTORY Department at the Musée From 19 to 30 May 2016 island by answering the following three questions on the an influence on political life. the church moved his critics. competition tablet at the exit of the exhibition : On 27 May, 1821, the Amongst them, the poet de l’Armée Some wished his name to be Concerts Bertrand family, Montholon, Alphonse de Lamartine Michel Dancoisne-Martineau erased from history; others The Napoleonic Legend What is the name of Napoleon’s jailer in Saint Helena ? Dr Antommarchi, Abbé concluded: “His coffin is Honorary Consul of France, wanted to honour him. In In Music  Hudson Lowe Vignali, and the servants sealed! God has judged him! Director of the National 1840, King Louis-Philippe From 7 April  Barry O’Meara Marchand, Ali, Coursot, Silence!”. Estates of Saint Helena I attempted a gesture of to 20 June 2016  Rear Admiral Cockburn and Archambault embarked national unity. With British At Longwood, the Emperor for Europe. They left in staged his demise carefully, PROJECT MANAGEMENT What is the name of the ship aboard which Napoleon agreement, he sent his son, Cinema their wake Longwood and even going so far as to went to Saint Helena? the Prince de Joinville, to Exhibition A Caged Eagle the British and Chinese explain to the Comte de Saint Helena, to bring back and lighting design 3 and 10 June 2016  HMS Bellerophon furniture, which the island the illustrious corpse. After Montholon: “If Jesus Christ Vincen Cornu Architecture  HMS Northumberland notables shared out between has not died on the cross, he some hesitation, the Hôtel Graphic design Find all the latest  La Belle-Poule them. The very same who in des Invalides was chosen as would not have been God.” Villar+Vera The Future of Statues information about the How many candles can you count on the chandelier 1815 had provided Napoleon the final resting place. After his death, eyewitness René Magritte, sculpture. 1932. exhibition programme and with the furniture they no accounts completed this of the salon ? The members of the © Lehmbruck Museum CATALOGUE events on musee-armee.fr longer wanted. metamorphosis. Locks of  Ten expedition were for the PUBLISHED BY or on the museum app. Though the last of his most part those who had hair, leaves from the willows  Eleven faithful companions shared Napoleon’s exile: over the tomb, and the Éditions Gallimard  Twelve were forced to leave the Bertrand and his son, Arthur, mementos that his faithful 297 pages, 250 ill. in colour INFORMATION Emperor’s body behind Gourgaud, Las Cases’ son, attendants distributed Price €35 WHAT CAN YOU WIN ? them, they nevertheless took Marchand, and Ali, to name became relics of a new TICKETS A one week trip to Saint Helena island, with them the manuscripts but the best known. On 15 cult. Death in exile on an flights and accommodation included*. 8.5€ exhibition of his memoirs, his will, his October, 1840, in driving island was compared to AROUND THE 12 € exhibition and death mask, and dozens rain, the tomb and then the hell; Napoleon came back permanent collections of objects marked by his four coffins were opened. transfigured. EXHIBITION Free under 18 presence, not to mention The body appeared perfectly “You tower over our epoch. their own remembrances. preserved. It was an intensely Angel or demon? Of no Adults guided tours: The final phase of the emotional experience. The importance!” said Victor [email protected] GROUPS battle took place far from parts of the teak coffin were Hugo of Napoleon. For the + 33 (0)825 05 44 05 7.5€ exhibition Saint Helena, though the handed out to those present. children of this century that (as of 10 pers., booking only) *For the complete terms and conditions, see at the entrance of the exhibition, and online at musee-armee.fr/ExpoNapoleonSainteHelene/. island was to remain central A new lead coffin was used in followed the Enlightenment, Young audience guided [email protected] to the argument. Later, its place, and this was nested Napoleon became a hero tours: of mythology. Saint Helena aiming to families and these witnesses of the exile in an ebony sarcophagus. Buy your ticket online Competition oganised with the generous support of Saint Helena tourism office. proclaimed tirelessly far and On their arrival at Cherbourg, at this point became the school students. Ask more musee-armee.fr wide not only the history the mortal remains were rock on which Prometheus, information about the tour of his reign as Napoleon borne up the river Seine. the Titan, was chained and itself, to organize a birthday SERVICES OPENING TIMES Musée de l’Armée himself had written it, but Paris received them eternally tortured by the party … Everyday but 1st May Hôtel des Invalides also the tribulations of the on 10 December. The eagle of Zeus for having Gift store and book-shop From 10 am to 6 pm 129 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris NAPOLEON Late openings on Tuesday, until 9 pm +33 (0)1 44 42 38 77 / musee-armee.fr final years. In this way, by sarcophagus was initially brought fire to mankind. Tours schedule online Café – Restaurant IN SAINT HELENA attempting to complete displayed in a chapel in the The real shape of island Le Carré des Invalides the story, they in the end Dôme des Invalides until disappeared behind the Information and booking: Open every day HIS FIGHT changed quite considerably it was transferred to the symbol. [email protected] FOR HIS STORY the way contemporaries and monumental crypt in 1861. EXHIBITION 6 April – 24 July 2016