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#Napoleonicwars #caricature #boney #johnbull Published by W. Holland N° 11 Cockspur Street London (1803).
#OnThisDay 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorced his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, who could not produce an heir. "Politics has no heart. It has only a head."
Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor of Austria, wife of Napoleon, empress of the French, and, from 1816, Duchess of Parma, was born #OnThisDay 1791.
She had a strong passion for botany but above all a boundless love for the violets of Parma.
#OnThisDay 1805, the meeting between Francis II and Napoleon is organised at Sarutschitz, in Moravia. "I receive you in the only palace I have lived in these past two months”. (Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812).
French inventor and father of canning Nicolas Appert was born #OnThisDay 1749. He was the first to develop a method of preserving food by subjecting it to heat in airtight, sterile containers (glass bottles and then tin cans). This process became known as Appertisation.
@CoffeeBookGirl What a magnificent effort must have been to go around in high heels, wearing corsets, layers of silk and lace plus those monumental coiffures!
French painter, sculptor, designer and lithographer Théodore Géricault was born #OnThisDay 1791 in Rouen. A pioneer of Romanticism, Géricault was a passionate horseman, had a flamboyant personality and died at 33 after a riding accident.
#OnThisDay 1728 Jean Siméon Chardin is admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a painter of still lifes...
Botanist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius #Ehret died #OnThisDay 1770. Engravings after his botanical paintings were reproduced onto Chelsea porcelain.