#plan-relief

[empirearchives]

Napoleon was really cute during this exchange:

He really liked these miniature models called plan-reliefs. There were several intricately detailed ones made during his rule.

This one is of the port city of Brest. This is what he said when he saw it on 6 March 1813:

Translation:

“Here is a beautiful, a magnificent work! It's beautiful, it's very beautiful! (...) Go get the Empress, tell her that we have seen nothing comparable.”

Source: Musée des Plans-Reliefs

[philoursmars]

Au MuCEM, en plus de l’expo sur Dubuffet, il y en avait aussi une autre intitulée : “Le Temps de l’Île”, évidemment sur le thème de l’insularité… Ici, entre autres, des exilés...

- Histoire de Robinson Crusoé - Epinal, 1840

-  plaques de lanternes magiques: “Robinson Crusoé”

- Joos Van Cleeve :  “Saint Jean à Patmos" - début XVIe s.

- Collectif Map Office - "Moving Lemuria from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean”

- David Renaud - "Deception Island", plan-relief