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16 and 17 September 2023Passed
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free entry
September 2023
Saturday 16
10:00 - 19:00
Sunday 17
10:00 - 19:00

École militaire

1 place Joffre 75007 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France

Napoleon I at the Military School of Paris 75007

The history of the Paris Military School is intimately linked to the career of Emperor Napoleon I.
16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Conditions
free entry
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The history of the Military School of Paris is intimately linked to the career of Emperor Napoleon I.* This is why, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Military School offers an exhibition devoted to the life of the young Bonaparte, a student at the Royal Military School, and the reconstruction of a Napoleonic bivouac.

  • The young Bonaparte crossed the gates of the prestigious Royal Military School in 1784, at the age of 15, as a gentleman’s cadet, that is, a cadet officer. In 1785, after only one year, he obtained his sub-lieutenancy certificate. Ten years later, already a brigadier general and armed arm of the Revolution, he set up his headquarters and barracks his troops there. From 1804 until 1814, the Military School and the Champ-de-Mars served as settings to celebrate the Emperor, to honour his valiant Grognards and to celebrate the highlights of his personal life. Even today, the majority of the Military School’s courses are named after soldiers killed in the battles of Austerlitz and Marengo.
Types d'événement
Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire
Thèmes 2023
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Gratuit
Type de public
Tout public

About the location

École militaire
1 place Joffre 75007 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France
Louis XV, at the instigation of the Paris brothers and Madame de Pompadour, set his sights on the plain of Grenelle, a former Garenne, which was part of the Sainte-Geneviève abbey and part of the Hôtel des Invalides in order to create a military school. Ange-Jacques Gabriel was chosen to design and ensure the construction of the buildings. In 1773, the work was completed. The royal courtyard is framed by porticoes with Doric columns on the ground floor and Ionic upstairs. The central body or castle dominates it without ostentation, decorated with colossal Corinthian columns and surmounted by a quadrangular dome. In 1780, the architect Gabriel being 82 years old, the architect Boullée, then the architect Théodore Brongniart who completes the work and finishes in particular the side pavilions of the castle. In 1787, the school was definitively closed. Its premises were assigned to the Hôtel-Dieu. The Revolution first established a flour depot and hand mills there, and in August 1792 the
Tags
Édifice militaire, enceinte urbaine, Édifice scolaire et éducatif
Access
Metro line 8 Military academy / Bus(Drunk) 82, 92, 80, 28, 87.