Art historian, City of London Guide and Lecturer. Tweets about Georgian & Napoleonic History et al. A Brockley-ite since 2003. / @londonse4@mastodon.uno
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I agree, lots of surprises here. 🦊 Had such great fun, thanks @LandOfHistory and @JSC1812 for inviting me to join.
My friends! It is the new episode of the Napoleonic Quiz with @Napoleonic_Imp! @ThatchGer1 @LondonSE4 @cturner72 make this a show that was full of surprises. Banish the lockdown blues with some historical shenanigans.
The 2020 Napoleonic Quiz Ep 3. youtu.be/3qq6Z5O6P9w
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Today marks the 235th anniversary of The Storming of the Bastille in Paris (1789).
Though the Bastille only held seven inmates at the time of its storming, it was seen by many as a symbol of royalist power in Paris. Thus, its fall was a major flashpoint in the French Revolution
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Today marks the anniversary of the signing of the Franco-Prussian part of the Treaty of Tilsit (1807).
While Napoleon had been generous in the Franco-Russian part of the treaty (signed just two days earlier), the Prussians were treated far more harshly.
Joséphine de Beauharnais died at Malmaison #onthisday 1814, a few days after catching a chill while on a walk with Emperor Alexander I of Russia. In 1805 Pierre Paul Prud'hon portrayed the empress sitting in her gardens, where she assembled an extraordinary collection of plants.
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AN UPCOMING EVENT
You're warmly invited to join us on Sunday 19th May for an online event:
Wellington’s Law: The Battle for Military Justice in the Peninsular War
Speaker: @ZwhiteHistory
More information & tickets via the link below.
See you there!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellingto…
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Individuata nei capelli di Beethoven la causa della sua sordità. Studio Usa, tutta colpa del piombo dentro il vino a buon mercato che il musicista e compositore beveva #ANSA
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Baron Charles Steuben explanatory sketch and painting of the Death of Napoleon, #OnThisDay 1821
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“Adieu, my children. Would that I could press you all to my heart.”
#OTD 1814 Napoleon bid farewell to soldiers of the Old Guard at Fontainebleau Palace. Some wept, and Napoleon, visibly moved, gave a final embrace to General Petit and kissed the eagle standard before departing.
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The Third War & Peace in the Age of Napoleon Conference is coming!
Co-hosted with & at York St Joh Uni, 5th-7th September 2024
20 minute papers or full panels welcome from anyone with a fresh perspective on social, political, military aspects of the period
Please R/T widely
"Defibrillators are available to our historian friends" - by Soulcie #NapoleonMovie
"When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light... He drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin..." Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace. #onthisday 1805 #Austerlitz
For the Italian Huffington post, Ridley Scott made the worst film about Napoleon. But also the best: "The Duelists", 46 years ago...
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Such a pity Kubrick gave up his Napoleon after the release of Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo and for lack of funding. 💔
Ridley Scott says “there are 10,000 books about Napoleon, and they’re full of both truth and conjecture. But I left reading the books to the poor bastard who had to write the screenplay.”
(Source: trib.al/EE5mQgu)
This afternoon at Fontainebleau, after a long bidding battle, the hat of #Napoleon I was sold by @OsenatSVV for €1,932,000 (sale of the Jean Louis Noisiez Collection).
This reminds me of a fellow student, who, when asked about The Ash Wednesday supper (La cena de le Ceneri) by Giordano Bruno, told the philosophy teacher: "I don't know, I wasn't there" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
