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Crusades

CRUSADES

French Revolution 1789

FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789

Napoleon Bonaparte

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

4,327 photos
Chateau de Versailles: the gaming room with the chess  
board of King Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) and original  
furniture and lamps.
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Chateau de Versailles: the gaming room with the chess board of King Louis-Phil...

Revolution of 1848: the revolutionaries try to storm
the Palais Royal; because of the fierce resistance of
the garrison, they set fire to the palace water tower.
Many defenders die asphyxiated; the others surrender.
Canvas, 59,5 x 73 cm
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Revolution of 1848: the revolutionaries try to storm the Palais Royal; because...

Revolution of 1848: The poet Alphonse de Lamartine     
rejects the red flag of the extreme left; the blue-    
white-red Tricolore becomes the national flag of the   
Second Republic.                                       
Oil, 298 x 580 cm
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Revolution of 1848: The poet Alphonse de Lamartine rejects the red flag of...

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, prince president and later   
Emperor III, presents the Legion d'honneur to a worker 
in St.Quentin-sur-l'Aisne, on 9.6.1850; 1851           
Oil on canvas.
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, prince president and later Emperor III, presents th...

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon III)  
comes to the aid of flood victims in Beauvais; 1850    
Oil on canvas
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon III) comes to the aid of floo...

Napoleon III at the battle of Solferino (24.6.1859),   
in which French and Piemontese troops beat the         
Austrian Armies; Italian Campaign, 1859                
Oil on canvas.
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Napoleon III at the battle of Solferino (24.6.1859), in which French and Piem...

Meeting between Emperor Franz Josef I and Emperor      
Napoleon III in Villafranca, to sign an armistice      
(July 12, 1859) and end the Italian campaign.
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Meeting between Emperor Franz Josef I and Emperor Napoleon III in Villafra...

Napoleon III and his party hunting in the woods        
around the Chateau de Compiegne.                       
Oil on canvas
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Napoleon III and his party hunting in the woods around the Chateau de Co...

Napoleon III and his son Eugene Louis Napoleon, who    
died at 23, in a tragic incident of the campaign       
against the Zulus in 1879.
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Napoleon III and his son Eugene Louis Napoleon, who died at 23, in a tragic...

Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence of           
Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. "Love-seat"          
and small table.
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Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence of Napoleon III and Empress...

Salle des jeux; a salon where Napoleon III and Empress 
Eugenie met their friends for evening games; the famous
"dictee" imagined by poet Prosper Merimee took place   
here in the Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence  
of Napoleon III.
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Salle des jeux; a salon where Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie met their friend...

Empress Eugenie's clothes,umbrella and walking stick   
in her dressing room, Chateau de CompiĆ gne,France.
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Empress Eugenie's clothes,umbrella and walking stick in her dressing room, Ch...