PART ONE, GROUP C: FRANCE AND NAPOLEON

Part One Group C: France and Napoleon

Louis XIV The Sun King

reigned 1643-1715 (72 years)

 

Louis XV

reigned

 

Louis XVI

reigned

 

Marie Antoinette and her children

 

Marie Antoinette and her children

 

 

Versailles

 

Jardin de Versailles

 

Fleur-de-Lis, Symbol of France

 

Galerie des Glasces

[Hall of Mirrors]

 

 

French Revolutionary Art

 Storming the Bastille

 

Execution of Robespierre, 1794

 

Battle of Fleurus 1794

War of the First Coalition

 

 

Bonaparte at Battle of Arcole, 1796

 

 

Battle of the Pyramids, July 1798 by Baron Lejeune

 

  

Bonaparte in Egypt by Gerome

 

 

 

Battle of the Nile, August 1798

 

 

Destruction of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, by George Arnauld

Battle of the Nile by Thomas Luny

 

Battle of Alexandria, March 1801

by Philip James de Loutherbourg

 

The Rosetta Stone, in the British Museum

 

 

James Gillray, The First Kiss this Ten Years

He (Frenchman)says: "Madame, permittez me to pay my profound esteem to your engaging person!— & to seal on your divine Lips my everlasting attachment!!!"

She (Britannia) says, "Monsieur, you are truly a well-bred Gentleman!— &, tho' you make me blush, yet, you Kiss so delicately, that I cannot refuse you, tho' I was sure you would Deceive me again."

 

 

 

Thomas Girtin, La Rue St Denis, Paris. 1802