The MEXICO-FRANCE NAPOLEONIC INSTITUTE, MFNI, is a cultural institution which aims to serve historic truth and artistic and literary creation, engaged with its free diffusion to the public in general, and having as main goal the defence and preservation of the memory and honour of H.M. EMPEROR NAPOLEON I, as well as transmitting his heritage in Mexico and the Spanish-speaking countries.
In that sense, the Mexico-France Napoleonic Institute has as its foundation the idea of encouraging the enrichment of our countries through education and development in all areas of knowledge and arts, by means of teaching and historical studies as well; equally, the MFNI consecrates its efforts to the impulsion of various artistic expressions and initiatives from a theoretical, but also, and mainly, practical point of view.
For all these reasons, besides of being in direct contact and in regular collaboration with the most important organisms and associations of Napoleonic studies on an international level, the MFNI has established ties of friendship and constant labor with the world’s most eminent institutions of the field.

Like these instances, the Mexico-France Napoleonic Institute gathers the most prominent specialist in the globe, with the double goal of bringing to Mexico – and through it to the whole Hispanic world – their experience and knowledge, and projecting ours to the world while digging furrows and sowing seeds in order that new generations of Mexican and Hispano-American thinkers, artists and writers may germinate in all fields of creation, so limited in the Napoleonic subject, especially in Latin America and practically inexistent in Mexico.
En effect, in our very specific national frame, we have to mention that the most powerful obstacles that the MFNI has to face daily, are without any doubt the historic amalgams and prejudices, so deeply anchored in a country which during so many decades was in the hands of organs hostile to the imperial tradition and symbols, and that have cultivated an incessant politics of social dissolution and national division upon the basis of partisan, manichean strategies, and systematic historic disinformation.

Thus, facing the double challenge that represents the thorny task of making one’s way through a virgin ground, and the fact of arising the interest of a public most of the times indifferent in what touches to Napoleonic history and studies, the Mexico-France Napoleonic Institute, conscious of its commitment towards national cohesion and social progress, as well as of the necessity of printing at this level powerful images in the popular spirit and imagination, devolves itself with great energy to carry on events of great symbolic charge and deep historical weight, trying at the same time to escape from all pre-existent reference, always in a frame of respect and impulse of our national values, traditions, beliefs and identity as Latin peoples. To reach these objectives, the Mexico-France Napoleonic Institute consecrates itself day after day to the task of realizing and promoting the creation of original works, as well as diffusing existent works, not very known, or even unpublished.

Finally, we are proud to say that, despite of its initial intrinsic limitations, the Mexico-France Napoleonic Institute accomplishes punctually and suitably its primary mission, which beyond teaching, historic and artistic creation and diffusion, also looks forward to perpetuate and intensify the cultural relations existing between Mexico and France, as well as to spreading and fortifying Francophony in America, fundamental and essential projects which brilliantly highlight the force and vigour of the ties of friendship and fraternity that intimately bond our peoples.