Preliminary activities
Friday, December 2013, 13
Conference: The Battle of Saint-Pierre d'Irube (Mouguerre)
Saturday 22 et Sunday 23 February 2014
Tribute to the sailors and to the captain of the frigate "La Sapho”,
François-Fidèle Ripaud de Montaudevert, who died of his wounds in
Bayonne on February 22: Conference on the "Crossing the Adour"
- Unveiling of a plaque (rue du Port Neuf) - Dinner?
On February 23: Mass - Ceremony at the « Monument de l’Aigle »
(Monument of the Eagle) [St-Etienne district]
Main Week-end of commemorations [Prior to the main event,
press conference at the Basque Museum, April 3]
Friday, April 11, 2014
4:30 p.m. Inaugural Conference : 1814/1914/1964,… - Presentation
& tour of the exhibition: « Bayonne 1814 – Shadow of the Emperor
or The Forgotten War »
Visit by French and English naval ships in the harbor ?
Saturday, April 12, 2014
9:00-12:00 a.m. Franco-British Conference-debate: « Bayonne 1814, Perspectives from Both Sides »
Visit of the exhibition, the Napoleonic Camp...
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Morning: Tour of the camp and Parade in period costumes through
the Old Bayonne.
Afternoon: Memory walk (surroundings of Bayonne)
Monday, April 14, 2014
Ceremonies around "The sortie of April 14, 1814"
Mass / Unveiling of plaques / Wreath laying - Monument de l'Aigle impériale (Monument of the Imperial Eagle)
Cimetières des Anglais (English Cemeteries).
..
After the main commemoration
Series of Conferences with the support of the SLSA* and
guided tours of the exhibition,...
* Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, of Bayonne
