Alliance Française of Providence's Talk about Napoleon Bonaparte

Join Alliance Française of Providence's Executive Director Dominique Grégoire for a talk about Napoleon Bonaparte.

⭐ Event Background and Details:

Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5th, 1821 in the custody of the British Crown on the remote island of Saint Helena, a wind-swept rock in the middle of the Atlantic, thousands of miles from any inhabited land.

Two hundred years later, on May 5th, 2021 it is appropriate to try to cast a balanced judgment on the most important actor of France’s complex history. Some see him as the savior of the French Revolution, codifying forever its ideals, its breakthroughs into a monumental national and international legal legacy.

Others consider him as this blood-thirsty dictator raising giant armies, submitting to his rule and that of his siblings otherwise peaceful countries.

The Alliance Française of Providence will not attempt to settle that age-old historical debate, rather they will focus on a less known historical aspect of Napoleon’s actions by bringing him back on this side of the Atlantic and talk about: ”NAPOLEON ET LES AMERIQUES”, “NAPOLEON AND THE AMERICAS”.