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Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. The graphic is notable for its representation in two dimensions of six types of data: the number of Napoleon's troops; distance; temperature; the latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates. [5]
Le Macaron is a franchise in the United States selling macarons made of meringue with ganache filling in various flavors and colors, including Sicilian pistachio and black currant, and other confections.
[1] [2] It depicts a family studying one of the Napoleonic bulletins issued by the French Emperor Napoleon. Posted during Napoleon's victorious War of the Fourth Coalition against Kingdom of Prussia, the family are following the progress of the campaign on a map. [3] It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre in Paris.
The camp de Châlons, also known as camp de Mourmelon, is a military camp of circa 10,000 hectares near Mourmelon-le-Grand. It was created at the behest of Napoleon III and opened August 30, 1857 during the Second French Empire. The Russian Expeditionary Force in France was stationed here in September 1916. [citation needed]
Joséphine de Beauharnais at Malmaison in 1801 by François Gérard Napoleon Crossing the Alps, a painting by Jacques-Louis David from the Malmaison collection. Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and her husband, General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France, at that time away fighting the Egyptian Campaign.
The result was a pleasing uniformity, and Napoleon's planners extended a similar program, which resulted in the arcades and facades that extend for almost a mile along the street. [ citation needed ] The restored Bourbon King Charles X continued the Rue de Rivoli eastwards from the Louvre, as did King Louis-Philippe .
Napoleon Accepting the Surrender of Madrid (French: Capitulation de Madrid, le 4 décembre 1808) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. [1] [2] It depicts Napoleon, Emperor of France, accepting the surrender of Madrid, on 4 December 1808, during the Peninsular War. Napoleon is shown with his general staff receiving ...
Location of battle, as given on map by Pierre Jacotin, 1826. The Battle of Mount Tabor was fought on 16 April 1799, between French forces commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte and General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, against an Ottoman Army under Abdullah Pasha al-Azm, ruler of Damascus.