#french general

[paintingsandhistory]

Napoleon in Egypt

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

Date: 1867-1868

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Collection: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, United States

Description

Dressed as a general of the French Revolution, Napoleon stands outside Cairo, on a road lined with Mamluk mausoleums from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He surveys the city. Napoleon arrived in Egypt with his generals in 1798 and attempted to add this land to France’s growing empire. The British defeated the French navy at the Battle of the Nile, one of the greatest naval disasters of all time, and put an end to his dreams of expansion to Africa. At the moment shown, this event is in the future.

[plantemane]

Probably the first ever fanart of General Montcalm from the Seven Years’ War. He unfortunately lost the battle at the Plains of Abraham where he and the opposing General (general Wolf, British) both died. I have a weird interest in him, he’s kinda neat despite losing the battle and ultimately losing New France to the Brits. But hey, that’s life I guess.

[napolebonasacc]

Bust of General Charles Etienne Gudin de la Sablonnière

[royalty-nobility]

Napoléon III (1808-73), Emperor of the French

Artist: Charles-Édouard Boutibonne (French, 1816–1897)

Date: 1856

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

The Emperor is wearing the uniform of a General of a division of the French army, with the ribbon and star of the Legion of Honour and badges of the Legion of Honour and the Médaille Militaire. In the distance is a view of Paris. Changes have been made to the position of the neck and hind legs of the horse. Napoleon III was the nephew of Napoleon I and was brought up in exile, coming to power in December 1848 as President of the Second Republic. In 1852 he was proclaimed Emperor, and after a disastrous defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, followed by a period of imprisonment, he joined his family in England. Queen Victoria wrote of him in a letter ‘That he is a very extraordinary man, with great qualities there can be no doubt – I might almost say a mysterious man… with a power of fascination, the effect of which upon all those who become more intimately acquainted with him is most sensibly felt’.

[fangandfleur]

some of my favorite photos from dragoncon! (+ my schools bathroom)

[napolebonasacc]

[nawapon17]

France needs to rebuild retired Leclerc tanks - a French General

They rely on Leclerc tanks and VBCIs, General Charles Beaudoin explained. He said "rebuilding a larger Leclerc force from old tanks and upgrading the VBCI."