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#OnThisDay 1799 Pierre-François Xavier Bouchard, officer in the French Army of engineers, discovered the #RosettaStone, during some repair work on Fort Julien. The official declaration of the discovery appeared in the "Courrier de l'Égypte", on September 15, 1799.

#Onthisday 1789, revolutionaries stormed the #Bastille, a fortress and a prison identified as the symbol of despotism, in order to seize ammunitions. This painting by Henry Singleton (1792) is the only British work offering an heroic view of the attack. #FrenchRevolution

Marie Louise had a passion for #violets. She had them embroidered on her wedding dress, when she married Napoleon #OnThisDay 1810.
When she became Duchess of Parma in 1814, the friars of the Annunciata were able to extract violets perfume and produced it only for her.

#OnThisDay 1821 Mr. Hume rose in the House of Commons to move for an account of the expenses of the detention of Buonaparte at St. Helena. If it were right to detain Napoleon at all...https://t.co/TKi4FNWGBi

Jacques Chevillet (1786-1837), a rare emotional voice of a Napoleonic amputee
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I think he looks a bit too old to be the general of the Italian Campaign, but this is how illustrator Tancredi Scarpelli imagined Napoleon back in 1931... https://t.co/qnXxSdd13P

The Peace of Tolentino was signed #onthisday 1797. After the defeat of the papal troops near Faenza, Napoleon Bonaparte made Pope Pius VI sign a diplomatic agreement in which he had to renounce Romagna and Avignon, pay a huge war indemnity and give hundreds of artworks.

The battle of Eylau (7-8 February 1807) between the French and the Russian forces was indecisive and costly. Nevertheless, a competition to represent the event was announced. The winner was Antoine-Jean Gros. His huge canvas (1808), now @MuseeLouvre, became an icon of Romanticism

Count Colonel Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini was also a patron of artists and writers.
He was portrayed as a prisoner of the Spielberg by Francesco Hayez in 1828. For him Hayez also made an oil painting - now lost- of the Count of Carmagnola led to torture.

This etching printed by Villeneuve shows King Louis XVI's head after his execution #OnThisDay 1793. "Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons (Let an impure blood water our furrows)" is also one of the lines of La Marsellaise.