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Tango01 | 28 Apr 2016 11:43 a.m. PST |
"The five years that Napoleon spent in exile on the British island of St. Helena in the vastness of the South Atlantic Ocean added a tragic coda to the extraordinary career of one of history's most colossal figures. This much-mythologized last chapter is vividly brought to life in an engaging if somewhat fetishistic exhibit at the Musée de l'Armée Invalides in Paris that re-creates his final residence, Longwood House. Falling somewhat awkwardly between the bicentennials of Napoleon's exile (1815) and his death (1821), "Napoleon in Saint Helena, His Fight for His Story" offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the personal effects that accompanied the fallen emperor in his last years. Among the 240 objects and documents on display are newly restored pieces of furniture from Longwood House, which has been renovated along with the other main Napoleonic sites on St. Helena, all timed to the opening of the island's first airport next month. The Musée de l'Armée helps situate visitors on St. Helena—roughly 1,200 miles from the African coast—with sleek videos of the island's volcanic landscape and impressive digital renderings that show the objects on display in their original rooms at Longwood House. Les Invalides is best known as the site of Napoleon's tomb, a gigantic red sarcophagus resting inside the dome where his remains were transferred in 1861, 21 years after they were returned to France from St. Helena. And the exhibit shows, among other things, how Napoleon's wish to be buried "on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people," came to be fulfilled…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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