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    MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

  To commemorate the bicentenary – 200 years – since the death of Napoleon, the 2021 Napoleon Season is holding a number of exhibitions and events. These include a large exhibition at La Villette in Paris on Napoleon from 14 April to 19 September 2021; and two exhibitions about Emperor Napoleon at the Invalides at the Musée de l’Armée (Army Museum) in Paris:  Napoléon n’est plus  ( Napoleon is No More ) and the exhibition  Napoléon? Encore! (Napoleon? Again!)  from 7 May 2021 to 30 January 2022.   Since January 2021, the “France Mémoire” section of the Institut de France has overseen the selection of official figures to commemorate. This year its list includes Napoleon, emphasizing the importance of debate, democratising memory, and accurate historical information. Thierry Lentz, a major Napoleonic historian and the director of the “Fondation Napoléon” said that one issue with commemorating Napoleon today is his reintroduction of slavery. France abolished slavery in 1794, but Napoleon

MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).