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Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, the most celebrated and accomplished pastel portraitist of the age of the Enlightenment, died #OnThisDay 1788. His Self-portrait with Lace Jabot (1750) was exhibited at the 1751 Salon, and it is now held at @museesdamiens.

I enrolled in a course on the 18th century and the Enlightenment organised by @ParisLumieres and @UParisNanterre + another one about the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars by @Cambridge_ICE. I think I have got enough on my plate 🤭 until the end of the lockdown...

In 1695, Charles Plumier, a French Franciscan monk and botanist named a plant, "Fuchsia Triphylla flore coccinea", after Leonhart Fuchs. The name was shortened by Linnaeus in Fuchsia Triphylla to fit with his binomial system. The genus Fuchsia comprises over 110 species.

German physician and botanist Leonhart Fuchs was born #OnThisDay 1501. He is the author of De Historia Stirpium, a book about plants and their medicinal uses. First published in 1542, it had about 500 accurate and detailed illustrations of plants.

Back to France Brissot was elected to the General States in Paris; he was also a member of the Legislative Assembly and of the Convention. He published "Nouveau voyage dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique" in 1791 and founded the free newspaper "Le Patriote français".

German-born painter and naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian died #OnThisDay 1717. She traveled to Suriname and in her scientific illustrations she documented the butterfly metamorphosis.

Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan was born #OnThisDay 1743. She was made Governess to the Children of France in 1775 and she took charge of Madame Royale in 1778. In 1782 she lost her job due to her husband's increasing debts which, by 1797, amounted at 33 million livres.

Beer, beef and pudding "à la santé"
#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.