Under the Ancien Régime, urbaria were used to establish taxes and were the forerunners of the land registry. Until 1789, the property tax was a tax system by quota, i.e. it required a total sum from a territory, without taking into account how it…
At the end of 1813, the Allied coalition won several victories against France and, when Paris fell in the early spring of 1814, "it was the beginning of the end", to use Talleyrand's famous phrase.
The crisis between Pope Pius VII and Emperor Napoleon I, which was latent during the Continental Blockade, broke out in 1809. In retaliation, the Emperor of the French decided to annex the Papal States and imprison the pontiff in Savona and then in…
The Château de Fontainebleau, which was restored from the First Empire onwards, was one of Napoleon I's residences and was the scene of major events in the Napoleonic saga in Seine-et-Marne.
The Château du Martroy was built during the 18th century and extended in the 19th century, and it was the home of a number of prominent figures who rubbed shoulders with Napoleon I during the First Empire.
As part of the commemorations of the bicentenary of the death of Emperor Napoleon I, the Seine-et-Marne Department Archives are making various educational tools available to secondary school pupils and teachers to complement the programmes taught in…
Many events of Bicentenary of Napoleon's death are in Seine-et-Marne. Conference, meeting, exhibition, reconstitution… Find on this webpage the events calendar of Bicentenary.
