THE MEXICO-FRANCE
NAPOLEONIC INSTITUTE
The Napoleonic
portal of the Latin America
«
I am so much identified with our prodigies,
our monuments, our institutions, all the national
acts, that one could not separate me from them
without committing an injury to France: its
glory lies upon acknowledging me! And any subtlety,
any detour, any lie that one could employ in
order to prove the contrary, I shall not remain
less all of that to the eyes of this nation
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Napoleon I. |
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The
15th of August 2004, day of the 235th anniversary of EMPEROR
NAPOLEON I The
Great’s birth, an innovative institution
consecrated to the study of his life and work, the Mexico-France
Napoleonic Institute, MFNI, has at last seen
the day in Mexico, so putting an end to the sad and long
absence of such an organism in this country, a situation
that had unexplainably went on until then.
That so long waited event was
the result of an intention to study in depth and to spread the
knowledge and contributions of the Napoleonic age, as well as
to promote and to encourage their study through the different
academic and cultural means.
In these conditions, the INMF comes to complete and enrich the
efforts that other prestigious institutions have carried out
since so many years already, intending to be an operative branch
that may amplify and enlarge their range of action, beyond the
borders of their respective countries.
In the same time, in its condition
of official instance of representation in Mexico, promoted by
H.I.H Prince Charles Napoleon, approved and encouraged by the
Napoleon Foundation, the Napoleonic Souvenir,
the International Napoleonic Society, the Napoleonic
Alliance of the United States of America, and the Russian
Association of Military History, among others prestigious
institutions, it is important to stress that the INMF consecrates
at last the Napoleonic spritual and institutional presence in
all continental North America.
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