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Older Larrey and the company he keeps.

Orientalism is in fashion, people support the Greeks in their struggle for independence against the Turks, Gérard de Nerval is preparing his trip to the East, Victor Hugo has published Les Orientales. Alexandre Dumas also seeks documentation because his editor of the Bureau de l'Echo des Feuilletons is anxious to publish the periodicals that his subscribers demand. Who moreover, better than Larrey, could inform him about the regions of the eastern Mediterranean?

{Alexandre Dumas, photography by Nadar.}

At Dumas’, the Larreys meet Baron Taylor, an informed art lover. Commissioner of the Théâtre-Français, he accepted that Hernani be staged and returned from Spain where he bought on behalf of the Louvre the Velasquez or Murillo paintings that Soult had not been able to appropriate to resell to the English. In 1836, he took part in the erection of the Luxor Obelisk on the Place de la Concorde.

{Le Baron Taylor}

Of the caliber of Vivant Denon, he is a man whom H. Larrey admires to the point of saying about him:

“One still listens to him when he doesn’t speak anymore!”

There is also Franz Liszt, with his emaciated face, his long, already silver hair while he is not thirty years old. Famous for the power of his compositions, the virtuosity of his technique, he is also passionate about philosophy and human physiology and has found in Larrey an excellent interlocutor whom he can question at will.

{Franz Liszt in 1843}

When he stays in Paris, the prince of Metternich, the man who fixed in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna the destiny of Europe for one hundred years, seeks the company of Larrey because he prides himself on his knowledge of anatomy, cerebral in particular. [..]

In the salon of the Duchess of Abrantès as in that of Dumas, Larrey found by chance René de Chateaubriand, who attends only that of the resplendent Juliette Récamier in order to share their common passion. Gradually withdrawn from politics, the illustrious writer chairs the commission responsible for erecting a monument in memory of Junot. Composed of Maret, the former Secretary of State of Napoleon, the banker Laffitte, both ephemeral presidents of the Council of Louis-Philippe, David, Alexandre Dumas, it would be usefully completed by the presence of Larrey, says Chateaubriand. Although placed at political antipodes, both will find enough elevation of thought to forget the past, mutually respect each other’s work and collaborate.

{Chateaubriand, by Girodet}

The only thing Larrey can neither forget nor forgive is betrayal.

During a reception given by the Comte de Rambuteau, Prefect of the Seine, Larrey sees a young officer whom he had known well in the wars of the Empire.

Endowed with a beautiful bass voice, he finishes his recital, leans nonchalantly on the piano before saluting a delighted audience. No one knows that with four other staff officers, he followed de Bourmont to pass to the enemy the day before Waterloo, white cockade on his hat, but in the early morning so as not to be seen.

Having distinguished Larrey among the guests, he crosses the room, walks towards him, a bewitching smile on his lips, hand widely extended:

“What! You don’t recognize me, Mr. Larrey? I am …”

Larrey, scowling, frowning, has taken two steps back, arms crossed, and interrupts him in an icy tone:

“The officer I knew by that name died at Waterloo!”

Then he ostensibly turns his back and leaves.

Jean Marchioni - Place à monsieur Larrey, chirurgien de la garde impériale

#xix #jean marchioni #place à monsieur larrey #dominique jean larrey #hippolyte larrey #alexandre dumas #baron taylor #françois rené de chateaubriand #franz liszt #and many others

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“It was in this as with his clothes; “The pay of a captain is enogh for me,” he was fond of saying. And in the course of the night, the morning, and the day, he changed his linen and his dress three times in twenty-four hours! Very fastidious, he would scarcely eat French beans, of which he was very fond, for fear of finding them stringy, which he said had the same effect of him as hairs, and mere thought of hairs in what he ate turned his stomach. At Cherbourg, however, in May 1811, having taken a fancy to go and breakfast on the mole, he stopped at a guard house and had some of the ammunition bread ant the soldiers’ soup brought to him; the first thing he found in the soup was a long hair. In spite of his turning against it he took out the hair and ate the soup. But the soldiers were looking at him.”

— Frederick Masson, Napoleon at Home.

#fastidious Napoleon #Napoleon has such chaotic energy in this one #napoleonic era #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte

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Dove kissing Robespierre from The Black Book (1949) 

(and Fouché being a bore) 

#The Black Book #Fouche #robespierre and doves #French revolution

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i hate assassin's creed but i love assassin's creed but i hate assassin's creed but i love assassin's creed but i hate assassin's creed but i

#why is this me tho #especially with unity #also have you seen what they'd done to Murat??? #HIDEOUS I TELL YOU #GODAWFUL AND UNHOLY #WHERE IS HIS CURLY LOCKS

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The case of the mutilations of Bautzen 1/3

The considerable and unusual number of wounded, 8,000 in Lützen, 6,500 in Bautzen, worries Napoleon, who sees his numbers melt away. What could have happened? he asks himself.

Not daring to admit the relentless and murderous new direction of the recent fights, he questions his entourage, and, above all, Larrey, who does not hesitate for a single moment to risk his position, his reputation, his honor, his future.

“To reduce in Napoleon’s eyes the considerable number of wounded which the battles of Lützen, Bautzen, and Würschen had caused, a few people accustomed to veiling the truth made him understand that many of these wounded had voluntarily mutilated themselves to escape the service, and all those who had their fingers cut off or their hands pierced through by bullets were included in this group. ”

Far from defending the honor of their men, several marshals, Soult in particular, Larrey reveals, give credence to this sinister tale which suits them. Tired of wars and bivouacs, they want to enjoy the comfort of the wealth created by the Emperor [..]

Starting from the principle that “any argument which could bring peace appeared valid to them”, judges Larrey who knows them well since he approaches them every day, they strive to highlight to the eyes of the Emperor the allegedly voluntary character of these mutilations in order to persuade him that the army is no longer following its leader. How could he count on a troop whose morale is low enough to engage in such extremes?

The baseness of the process [..] is also adorned with an insinuation as perfidious as it is slanderous after the heroic behavior of the young “Marie-Louise” during the previous days. The blow hits and finds Larrey in the front line. “On these assertions, the order was given to bring them all together and shut them up in the entrenched camp established for customs, a quarter of a league from the town, on the main road to Bautzen. There were nearly three thousand of them.”

The heads of the Health Service are summoned forthwith by the Emperor, impatient to hear their opinion on this question which feeds his anger.

“Desgenettes and Yvan told the Emperor that the wounds were voluntary [..] My opinion did not agree with that of some of my colleagues: it did not prevail, and the order to form a surgical jury , which I was to preside, was immediately issued to me. This jury was responsible for designating those of these individuals whom they would have found guilty of these offenses, so that they be then placed at the disposal of the general, the army provost. ”

Larrey measured the importance of the case. The order was “issued” to him by Napoleon, who did not show him his usual marks of affection; the letter received from General Pradel, the provost, claiming two culprits per army corps, does not bode well for the consequences.

So would it be twenty-four innocent soldiers who would be brought before a war council before being shot on the front lines? From his experience of the campaigns of Poland and Spain, Larrey knows that these are injuries due to the inexperience of young recruits in the handling of their rifle.

But he is the only one to know it, he has to bring proof, to brave the wrath of Napoleon [..]

Jean Marchioni - Place à monsieur Larrey, chirurgien de la garde impériale.

#napoleonic #jean marchioni #place à monsieur larrey #dominique jean larrey #napoléon bonaparte #1813 #the mutilations of bautzen #napoleonic era

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*sad trumpet noises*

French Trumpeter Resting, by Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille.

[Via Sotheby’s]

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Top 5 Napoleon hair-dos

Oh god this took way too long to answer but here we go

1. This awkward looking almost bowl cut by Detaille

2. David’s majestic hair blowing in the wind Napoleon sketch 

3. Napoleon letting his hair down with Junot in Paris by JOB

4. Another by Detaille although his hair is a million times better this time

5. These gorgeous long locks with cute hair bow

#Napoleon's hair styles #long-hair Napoleon #Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte

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Messing around with the new quills I made

#calligraphy #feather pen #quill pen #random post #random

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Happy New Year folks!

Let's hope this year won't be as dreadful as it did in the last~

#Happy New Year #2021 #time flies a little too fast #especially in a pandemic

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#12 Roaming Thoughts

Sometimes I wish my retired self would just be me making paintings, quills, and send letters to people.

Also I want to become a hobbit.

#roaming thoughts

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Gouvion Saint-Cyr

#who be that sleepy boi at the back #Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr #saint cry

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#11 Roaming Thoughts

Still cannot forgive that one specific teacher that snatched my drawing in class and proceed to raise their volume at me.

#roaming thoughts

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One half of the artwork is so much more pleasing than the full outcome—

#made it my lockscreen as well #honhonhon #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #myart #my art

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Ponytail Naps cause why not

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #art #myart #my art #my artwrok #doodle

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Question to you lot: Are my drawings coming out rather dark?

Cause I myself cannot tell the darkness level with my laptop screen ;; So I kinda need you lots' viewpoint about it.

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Exhibit A:

I must say though, the brush I’m using to draw Murat does wonders to my other portraits.

Especially the Napoleon portrait I last posted :3

#okay it's late #I need to sleep #but he's pretty no? #napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #art #my art #myart #my artwork #digital art #digital painting

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I must say though, the brush I’m using to draw Murat does wonders to my other portraits.

Especially the Napoleon portrait I last posted :3