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In 1840, Napoleon's ashes were returned to France for a state burial on request by Louis Philippe I, inspiring Turner to make the former Emperor the subject of War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet. [2] War depicts a moment during Napoleon's exile on St. Helena. While on guard of a British sentry, a prevalent reminder of his captivity, Napoleon ...
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; listed as Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard) is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
The painting depicts Napoleon in a room of the Palace of Fontainebleau. He appears with a thoughtful expression, while he sits informally in a chair. He has the appearance of someone who has just returned from combat, while he also wears his uniform of colonel of the horse grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, with his grey frock coat.
Napoleon at Saint Helena or La Fin de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (Napoleon auf St. Helena ou Der Gefangene Kaiser) by Lupu Pick (1929). The film is based on Abel Gance's screenplay for his ambitious Napoleon fresco, of which only one film was ever made. The Man on the Rock de Edward L. Cahn (1938). This short film analyzes a possible plot ...
Abbot, J. S. C. Napoleon Bonaparte. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-4191-3657-7; Alison, A. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV. W. Blackwood and sons, 1854. Britt, A.B. The Wars of Napoleon. Square One Publishers, Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-7570-0154-8.
A chyron that appears at the end of “Napoleon” — after two and a half hours of turgid, grime-encrusted spectacle — informs that France’s self-anointed emperor oversaw 61 battles, listing ...
Napoleon Crossing the Alps; Napoleon I as Emperor; Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814; Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne; Napoleon in Imperial Costume; Napoleon in the Wilderness; Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps; Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau; Napoleon on the Bellerophon; Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit
"Napoleon didn't shoot for the pyramids, and the battle of the pyramids, so-called, was not fought at the base of the pyramids," he says. In fact, the attack in Egypt happened miles away from the ...