#napoleonic paris

[empirearchives]

“That one never sleeps” — Napoleon mentioned in John Quincy Adams’ diary

Pictured: The Elephant of the Bastille. Commissioned by Napoleon. It was supposed to be made of bronze, but only a plaster full-scale model was built.

Between diplomatic appointments, John Quincy Adams met his wife and son in Paris. He was at leisure, passing time as he wrote in his diary “as agreeably as any part of my life.” By happenstance, the visit of Adams coincided with the return of Napoleon from Elba, called the Hundred Days, which ended with his defeat at Waterloo. In his diary entry of March 28, 1815, Adams mentions a chat with the doorkeeper of the elephant, who told him that 200 men once worked on the job, but now, under Louis XVIII (the restored Bourbon monarch), only 7 or 8. With Napoleon’s return, said the doorkeeper, work on the fountain would resume “because that one doesn’t sleep” (car celui-là ne dort pas). The artist was unable to persuade the government, when the monarchy returned, that the elephant had naught to do with Bonaparte. It figures in Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables when a ruthless crook occupies it and, showing a loving heart, shelters a street urchin. The basin remains today.

— Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811, by Jane Merrill and John Endicott, pp. 99

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Adams’ diary entry, date: 28 March 1815

We rode round upon the Boulevards to the Porte St. Antoine; and visited the works, at the Canal de l’Oureq and the colossal Elephant to be erected in Bronze, for a public fountain on the spot where the Bastille formerly stood— The model in clay is under a shed—it is 55 feet high, and 45 feet long— In a separate chamber, shewn to us by the door keeper, as a special favour, there is a small model in clay, marked out in pieces, as the great bronze original work is to be cast— He told us that there had been formerly two hundred workmen constantly employed upon it— That while the king was here, it was almost abandoned—not more than seven or eight men kept at work. Now it would be resumed Car celui la ne dort pas, and in two years the work would be completed.

(John Quincy Adams Digital Diary)

#John Quincy Adams #Adams #napoleon #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #the hundred days #hundred days #Paris #Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris 1810-1811 #Aaron Burr #first french empire #french empire #Victor Hugo #les mis #Les Misérables #Elephant of the Bastille #Bastille #france #19th century #history #1800s #french revolution #napoleonic paris #Napoleon’s reforms #Napoleonic reforms #reforms

[microcosme11]

Place Vendôme : Colonne de la Grande Armée (Titre de la série), Jean Duplessi-Bertaux (no date).

wikimedia

#Vendome Column #Napoleonic Paris

[livesunique]

The courthouse building for the Tribunal de Commerce,

Paris, France,

Built between 1859 and 1865 on a design by architect Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, inspired by the Renaissance Palazzo della Loggia in Brescia. It was ceremoniously inaugurated by Napoleon III on 26 December 1865.

Credit: Bon Voyage Cleo

#art #design #architecture #history #style #interior design #grans staircase #courtgouse #paris #france #antoine-nicolas bailly #palazzo #palazzo della loggia #napoleon III #bonvoyagecleo

[illustratus]

Napoleon's Tomb in Les Invalides, Paris, Guarded by Phantom Soldiers.

by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

#napoleon bonaparte #napoléon bonaparte #tomb #les invalides #paris #france #art #jacques onfroy de bréville #job #phantom #soldiers #guards #phantoms #ghosts #ghost #french #history #napoleonic #napoléon #napoleon #bonaparte #europe #european #soldier #guard #grenadier #hussar #chasseur

[gorrus]

#paris france #paris #france #napoleons tomb #napoleon

[andorianimpostor]

"You can now indulge yourself in your nefarious flair for the dramatic."

—Illya Kuryakin, The See Paris and Die Affair (1x22)

#channel D forever open #something from the drafts in case anybody else needed to see them smiley and happy today #Illya Kuryakin #Napoleon Solo #tmfu #The See Paris and Die Affair #* #tmfu tv

[boneyagainsttheworld]

Young Boney contemplating his life and future in a restaurant in Paris (1972)

Artist: Eric Pape

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #boney #bonaparte #napoleonic era #general bonaparte #history #french empire #1800s #1700s #bonapartist #young napoleon #paris #french history #france #french revolution

[ciderbird]

The Treaty of Paris, 1814

#history #history memes #napoleon bonaparte #talleyrand #charles maurice de talleyrand #napoleonic wars #the treaty of paris

[laurentouttan]

You vs the guy she told you not to worry about

#napoleon #painting #étienne-barthélemyGarnier #Garnier #france #paris

[josefavomjaaga]

Laure about Bessières and Junot

In her memoirs, Laure for the time of her marriage (i.e., early Consulate) mentions Bessières as one of Junot's close friends:

Colonel Bessières, as he still only held that rank at the time, was at that time considered to be one of Junot's close friends.

However, with a caveat in a footnote:

Since then, this friendship cooled. I have always deplored the cause, which was as futile and ridiculous as possible, especially between two men such as Bessières and Junot, both young sprouts from the same tree and destined to live under its shade. I was the judge between the two of them, and I must say that I did not always rule in favour of Junot.

In the same chapter, Laure also mentions Bessières sharing his lodgings with Eugène and the two of them partying hard:

He was then colonel of the guides, i.e. the mounted chasseurs of the consular guard, together with Eugène Beauharnais. They were living in the same lodgings, and rumour had it that they were both very fond of all the joys that come with fortune and youth.

Does anybody happen to know what „futile and ridiculous“ thing caused the friendship between Bessières and Junot to break up? My first guess would have been a woman. But it might as well have been Bessières' catholicism?

#napoleon's marshals #jean baptiste bessières #napoleon's generals #jean andoche junot #napoleon's family #eugène de beauharnais #paris 1800 #consulate

[your-dandy-king]

For @askgeraudduroc : The Afterlife of J.B. Bessières

#bessie: it’s fine i’m fine everything is fine #everyone else: no it’s fucking not #moodboard #napoleonic roleplaying #exchanges with bessières #the actual opera house in Paris that he would have visited in his lifetime #was demolished in 1820 #so I fibbed a bit #because vibes

[empirearchives]

The shield of Achilles according to the description of Homer

Hand-colored etching by Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, ca. 1814, Napoleonic era. Published in Le Jupiter Olympien, Paris, Firmin Didot

#Quatremère de Quincy #Antoine-Chrysostome #Achilles #Homer #the Iliad #shield #art #etching #1800s #classics #classical art #Firmin Didot #Didot #greek mythology #Quatremere de Quincy #Greek myths #mythology #napoleonic era #napoleonic #Paris #France #Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy #ancient history #French art

[microcosme11]

The Shopping Arcade des Panoramas in Paris, 1807 by Philibert Louis Debucourt

#Daily life in the Empire #Napoleonic Paris #just like a mall today

[illustratus]

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne and Napoleon Bonaparte in the streets of Paris incognito

by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

#louis antoine fauvelet de bourrienne #napoleon bonaparte #napoléon bonaparte #paris #france #art #jacques onfroy de bréville #job #french #napoleonic #history #napoléon #napoleon #bonaparte #europe #european #friends #city

[ukdamo]

Today's photo with the most hits: Napoleon's carriage. Captured at Waterloo by the Prussians, it's now on display at Chateau Malmaison.

#malmaison #paris #napoleon #carriage

[andorianimpostor]

You didn't want me to lie to Mr. Waverly, did you?

Five episodes later, PAYBACK TIME:

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. | 1.22, 1.27

#oh the BETRAYAL! #the marriage bickering continues #(of course all that happens after some dramatic and very gay rescuing) #tmfu #the man from uncle #Illya Kuryakin #Napoleon Solo #The See Paris and Die Affair #The Gazebo in the Maze Affair #tmfu tv #* #whistling Illya might be my new favourite gif