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Michel Dancoisne-Martineau (born 5 December 1965 inVoyennes) is the director of the French domains of Saint Helena. Since October 1990, he has been Honorary French Consul on the island. [1]
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Michel Dancoisne-Martineau (born 5 December 1965 inVoyennes) is the director of the French domains of Saint Helena. Since October 1990, he has been Honorary French Consul on the island. [1]
From Voyennes, France, Michel Dancoisne went to high school in Amiens and tries university in Besançon. After failing university up there, he went back to Picardie. After reading a biography of Lord Byron, he contacted the author, previous French consul of Saint Helena, Gilles Martineau. The latter having no children adopted him. Michel Dancoisne-Martineau followed him to Saint Helena. [2]
Since 1987, Dancoisne-Martineau has been the manager of the three properties owned by the French Government on Saint Helena. Among other projects, he completed the restoration of Longwood Gardens to its 1821 state, using original documents from the Saint Helena archives to collect the original furniture.
From 1987 to 1998, Dancoisne-Martineau managed the historical reconstruction of the admiral's apartment at the Briars Pavilion, the former residence of Napoleon, which was completed in 2015. From 2010 to 2013, he managed, in partnership with the Fondation Napoléon, the "Save Longwood House" fundraising campaign. In 2008, he donated of 1.67 acres of land around the Briars to the French Government, to guarantee visitor access to the site.
In May 2011, he published Chroniques de Sainte-Hélène Atlantique Sud, a collection of accounts describing life on the island by some of the lesser-known characters of the days of Napoleon on the island.
From 2012 until 2014, he was consultant and architect's project manager for the rehabilitation of the National domain at Longwood (case n°7425) Between 2013 - 2016, he was commissioner, along with Emilie Robbe, of the scientific Committee for the exhibition "Napoleon at St Helena –at the Conquest of memory", from Wednesday 6 April to Sunday 24 July 2016 at the Musée de l'Armée - Hôtel national des Invalides.
For the bicentenary of Napoleon on St. Helena (2015-2021), he is publishing a history of Napoleon's time on Saint Helena, in a 12-volume bilingual French/English series. The story of his life was published in 2017 in "Je suis le Gardien du Tombeau vide", Flammarion 2017
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