#vivandiere

[napolebonasacc]

Napolèon and the Vivandière

From the 1930s Italian magazine Scena Illustrata

[karl-jensen]

Currently working on something for Valentine's Day. There will be five pictures, or probably six, where Napoleonic Soldiers would dance around and do romance stuff to the Vivandières.

Two out of five (or six) images have been completed. The entire drawing collection will be posted on February 14, 2026 for Valentine's Day.

[redarmyscreaming]

1859 camp de Saint Maur (Vincennes). Chasseurs a pied et la vivandiere

[cinematic-literature]

Estate violenta (1959) by Valerio Zurlini

Book title: Vivandière! (1929) by Phoebe Fenwick Gaye

[higherentity]

[amarguerite]

Storing an idea here for later-- too many projects in the air-- but I would like to do some kind of Regency fantasy thing that focuses on France. Everything tends to (perhaps necessarily, due to language and literary trends) focus on England. Toying with an idea on taking the term vivandière to a fantastic conclusion. Like, in reality they were women attached to French regiments during the wars of French Revolution and Empire, who sold food, drink, pins, hair powder, etc. to soldiers-- but the word is partly from a gerundive of vivere (to live)-- and I like the idea of one of these women becoming a necromancer. 

[revoltedstates]

Vivandière from Vermont. Source.

[napolebonasacc]

A photo staged soldier, a young drummer and a pretty vivandiere on the front line