Prints of Napoleon from 1806, by François Anne David.
François Anne David was a French Printmaker born in 1741 and died on April 2, 1824.
Allegory of Napoleon’s Coronation, 1806
Napoleon at the battle of Marengo, 1806
Napoleon at the battle of Austerlitz, 1806
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Happy birthday Marshal Lannes! April 10, 1769
I got a few selections about Jean Lannes from "Napoleon's Military Career" by Montgomery B. Gibbs
The first three, from the Italian campaign 1796/1797
At Dego:
Here also, Lannes, who lives to be a marshal of the empire, first attracted the notice if Napoleon, and was promoted from lieutenant-colonel to colonel.
At Lodi:
Lannes, Napoleon, Berthier, and L'Allemand now hurried to the front, rallied and cheered the men, and as the column dashed across and over the dead bodies of the slain which covered the passageway, and in the face of a tempest of fire that thinned their ranks at every step, the leaders shouted: "Follow your generals, my brave fellows!"
At Bassano:
Lannes seized one of the standards with his own hands, and, in consequence, Bonaparte demanded for him the rank of general of brigade. "He was," he said, "the first who put the enemy to route at Dego, who the Po at Plaisance, the Adda at Lodi, and the first to enter Bassano."
At Marengo:
"The shower of balls from the Austrian musketry was at one time so intense that Lannes, speaking of it afterwards, described it's effect with a horrible, graphic homeliness. "Bones were cracking in my division," he said, "like a shower of hail upon a skylight." Lannes was subsequently created Duke of Montebello.
At Ratisbon:
Napoleon now sent an aid-de-camp to Lannes urging him to expedite the taking of Ratisbon. This intrepid marshal has directed all his artillery against a projecting house, which rose above the wall surrounding the town. The house was knocked down and the ruins fell into the ditch. Still there were two fortified positions to take. Ladders were procured and placed at the critical points by the grenadiers, but every time one of them appeared he was instantly brought down by the well-aimed balls of Austrian sharpshooters. After some men had been thus struck, the rest appeared to hang back. Thereupon Lannes advanced, covered with decorations, seized one of the ladders and cried out: "You shall see that your marshal, for all he is a marshal, has not ceased to be a grenadier!"
At Aspern-Essling:
Just as Napoleon was about to retire for a few hours' rest he was interrupted by a violent altercation between two of the chief lieutenants, Bessieres and Lannes, the former of whom complained of the language used by the latter, his inferior in rank, in giving a necessary order for a charge of cuirassiers and Chasseurs, then under the orders of Marshal Bessieres himself. Massena, who was on the spot, was obligated to interfere between these gallant men, who, after having braces for a whole day the crossfire of three hundred pieces of cannon, were ready to draw their swords for the sake of their offended pride. Napoleon allayed their quarrel, which was to be terminated the best day by the enemy in the saddest way for themselves and for the army.
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Okay, Neighbors, thanks to a piece of good advice from a fellow Revolutionary ( @revolution-and-football , to be specific) I decided to choose something (potentially) more enjoyable than The Second Empress for the next review.
It will be a book again. Which one, you may ask?
*drum roll intensifies*
Bitter Glory by David Swatton
Here’s the summary from Goodreads:
“In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte’s grip on the reins of power in Revolutionary France is far from secure. The French Army has seen serious reverses in the last three years and stands on the brink of another defeat with thousands of men besieged and starving in the city of Genoa. He needs a great victory to secure both his military and political position and he is looking to northern Italy to gain that victory. Like Hannibal two thousand years earlier he will cross the Alps with an army to fall upon his enemy. Caught up in this grand strategy is a young cavalry officer, Antoine Chauvelle, returning to his regiment from leave as they march to war. From the struggle over the mountains to the desperate fight for survival in a besieged and pestilential city, events sweep Chauvelle into a mad vendetta with a notorious duellist and a plot that could undermine the campaign and will culminate on the bloody battlefield of Marengo.”
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m hooked.
It seems this time we have middle ground between Frev and Napoleonic era in the chronological sense, which isn’t the most talked about time period in fiction compared to Frev or the First Empire.
This should be fun, but the fact that the author is from England makes my optimism rather cautious and weak. Oh well, why not try? This might just be a hidden gem.
*crosses her fingers with hope on her face*
In any case, stay tuned for a review of this book, Neighbors. Oh, and stay safe! I love you!
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Chanfana
Bueno, como hace la hostia que no escribo nada sobre cocina, porque un día por dimes y el otro por diretes, resultaba en que muchas casualidades se tenían que dar para que hubiera un trabajo previo que desembocara en una causalidad como la que con un poco de suerte se va a producir aquí hoy . Sin embargo me embargo con la sensación de que hoy sí, hoy abordaré con el cuchillo entre los…
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