Did you know... The bronze statue of Napoleon on horseback in the Place de la Légion d'Honneur in Montereau-Fault-Yonne was sculpted by Charles-Pierre-Victor Pajol, the eldest son of a General who was the hero of the Battle of Montereau in 1814.
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.
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…
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…