#Jacques onfroy de bréville

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Napoleon's Tomb in Les Invalides, Paris, Guarded by Phantom Soldiers.

by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

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Napoleon standing in the ruins of the Tuileries palace in Paris goes kind of hard ngl

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Le maréchal Davout sur le champ de bataille

by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville, done sometime before 1931

Wikimedia source

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Former Napoleonic soldier looks sadly and nostalgically at uniforms and other military stuff for sale. Portrait of Louis XVIII in the background adds to the bummer.

Thanks to @wallenrod "Demi-solde [half-pay soldier] contemplant les dépouilles militaires du Ier Empire"   Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville (JOB)

[joachimnapoleon]

Hi! Still reading your book and loving it but making very slow progress because I keep finding all these interesting things that distract me and that I have to look up then 😋.

I've just come across the touching letter Murat wrote to his brother about his mother's death coming closer and what he wanted him to do for her burial. He also had written several times how he missed her and wanted to come home but was always kept away by some thing or other. So I wondered when he did last see his mother?

And on a totally different note: I laughed out loud about his straight-to-the-point description of Blücher (I have nothing to add to that one 😁). Did those two ever meet and have a talk in a more civilised manner (as civilised as Blücher would get anyway)?

I’m glad you’re enjoying the book!!

The last time Murat saw his mother was when he visited La Bastide for several days in November 1803. Here’s how his biographer Atteridge describes it:

At last, after twelve years of waiting, the aged Jeanne Murat welcomed her son at La Bastide. Caroline came with him, bringing her three children, to add to the joy of the old grandmother. The peasant proprietors and small farmers, who formed the family circle of friends at La Bastide, were dazzled with the sight of splendid horses and carriages and brilliantly uniformed equerries, but delighted to find that the great man, Napoleon's famous cavalry leader, the hero of Aboukir and Marengo, had forgotten no one, was ready to meet as equals the friends who had been his playfellows long ago, and anxious to know every one at La Bastide. (…) The days spent among them would be among the happiest of his life, and he rejoiced at seeing old friends again, and making new friends among them. (…) It is not certain that he ever saw his native place again. He may have had a passing sight of it five years later, when he was on his way to Spain as lieutenant-general of the Emperor.

Jacques-Onfroy de Bréville illustrated the reunion of Murat with his mother:

As for any meeting with Blücher, it’s possible that they exchanged some words when Murat, Soult, and Bernadotte accepted Blücher’s surrender after Lubeck in 1806, but if so I haven’t found any record of it. Alphonse Lalauze painted this scene of the surrender and I still love how unimpressed Murat looks here:

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Jacques Onfroy de Bréville (1858-1931) and Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942)

Bilibin's illustration is clearly dated 1900. I haven't been able to find a date for the other one.

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“Jeanne d’Arc à cheval / Joan of Arc on Horseback” Jacques Onfroy de Bréville a.k.a. Job 1887/1909

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Napoleon Bonaparte drawn by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville Job, also just refered to as Job. (to make things a little easier)

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Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, known by the pen name Job after his initials  (1858 –1931)  French artist and illustrator.

The entire JOB Album this time

The fancy boys

That time Napoleon turned down bare tiddies for paperwork (I don't remember the entire anecdote). HYPERFOCUS GAME IS STRONG.

I did a terrible job stitching this 2 page spread. RIP

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Napoleon about his brother, Lucien, in 1784:

He is 9 years old, and 3 feet, 4 inches, and 6 lines tall. He is in the sixth class for Latin, and is going to learn all the subjects in the curriculum. He shows plenty of good disposition and has good intentions. It is to be hoped he will turn out well. He is in good health, is a big upstanding boy, quick and impulsive, and he is making a good start. He knows French well, and has forgotten all his Italian.

I’m crying at Napoleon calling his little bro “a big upstanding boy” :’)

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Chasseurs a cheval of the Imperial Guard in service uniform when escorting the Emperor in the field, plate by Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville or J.O.B.

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OUVRAGE | Napoléon : du conquérant couronné au captif de Sainte-Hélène ➽ https://j.mp/3rqYmrZ Véritable bijou textuel et visuel dont la lecture profite à tout âge, cet ouvrage, qui nous plonge au cœur de l’existence d’un Napoléon bannissant toute parole vaine, ne parlant que pour enseigner, n’écoutant que pour apprendre et qui au faîte de sa puissance chercha à imposer sa paix à l’Europe, nous entraîne jusqu’au rocher de Sainte-Hélène

[joachimnapoleon]

Hmm well that was just before his abrupt flight departure from the seminary, so JOB has left us with this lovely glimpse of late-stage priestling Murat hanging out at the local tavern:

Bonus Murat freshly departed from the seminary and ready to enlist, still clad in his clerical clothes and wearing the first of what will be soon be an immense hat collection:

I'm perplexed as to what Murat wore in 1785—

I NEED ANSWERS

[joachimnapoleon]

Paper doll of Murat, complete with horse, multiple outfits, and accessories. Artwork by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville (JOB).

(For the Napoleon paper doll, see here.)

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"Marseille", by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville, for the book Chants Nationaux.