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THE PLACES

Places of memory

Act of Napoleon’s baptism. Ajaccio, Salon Napoléonien de l’Hôtel de Ville.
Act of Napoleon’s baptism. Ajaccio, Salon Napoléonien de l’Hôtel de Ville.

Power also nourishes itself with myth and memory: places of everyday life crossed by the memory of the presence of the sovereign, of the prince, of the man and of the woman who are and were important.
They are the birth home, the piece of paper with the name of the sovereign child written upon it, the cities of distant and reclaimed origin, the spaces of the small intimacies softened in legend. Together with these, a collection of old and fragile reliquaries that in the case of the Napoleonic period were quickly institutionalized, made museum and programmatic memory: in these places of memory are thus reunited the precious relics that carry to our own time traces of a still–living past.