#LARREY

[mokifish]

I absolutely love your art! 🥰

Also, obligatory art request, as it appears requests are open: could you do one of Larrey or Frederik vi?

If you are in need of references for either, please let me know. I’ve built quite the collection for both. :)

Larrey :D

Blucher Jumpscare ☺️ (Blucher pardoning Larrey after Waterloo)

I was lowkey so close to drawing Lannes's leg on the table, but i ran out of room.

Thank you! Sorry this took so long, I was having rly bad art block, but i'm back now. Also, the urge to yassify them was strong, but i'm seriously trying to get better at drawing men. 💔💔

Btw, i'll probs do a request every couple of weeks or so! Right now they're closed though, but i'll try to get the ones in my inbox all done.

[credo--ergo-sum]

[captainknell]

[not-a-fool-entire]

Lost motivation while drawing Larrey so sketched a little version of him instead

warning crudely drawn blood

[senechalum]

I’m not sure if you’re taking requests still, but I’d rather ask and get ignored than not ask at all.

Could you possibly do one of Larrey or Frederik vi?

If you need references for either, just dm me, I’ve got plenty.

Hellooo !!

I'm still taking requests, yes, my job doesn't allow me to draw a lot but I'm doing my best to finally answer them all <3 This allows me to also try new things, new brushes, new coloring styles... !

Here's portrait of Larrey for you :) If you have references of Frederik VI, feel free to send me a private message and I'll try to draw him next month ! :D

[handfuloftime]

A number of surgeons attended Duroc after his fatal wounding, including François Ribes and Alexandre-Urbain Yvan. Dominique-Jean Larrey also saw him a few hours before his death, and recorded their brief conversation in his journal. He also recounted their meeting in two of his published memoirs, and it's interesting to look at all three side by side.

First, in his journal of 1813, held in the Wellcome Collection (my transcription):

Interview with the Grand Marshal of the Palace Duke of Frioul - mortally wounded by a cannonball, he was laid in a [illegible] cottage near where he had received the fatal blow. He sent for me immediately and did not stop asking for me. I had still not rejoined the general staff however I arrived and [illegible]. He was drowsing and his eyelids were closed. I gently approached his deathbed and took his left hand with care to take his pulse and judge the condition he was in. "What is that hand that touches me and does me so much good?" he said in a trembling and plaintive voice. He opened his eyes and recognized me. "Ha! I was sure of it. It's you, my dear Larrey. I've wanted you for a while now and have waited for you impatiently. You see the state I'm in. You can't fix me up this time. But give me something that will let me end the horrible torments I'm suffering. Render me this service of a true friend. Don't let me suffer any more, my dear Larrey, I'm counting on you." My heart seized. My senses fled. I couldn't muster a single word, my tears couldn't fall and I felt my strength vanish. My friend Ribes who was nearby, took me and led me away from that awful spectacle. A new motion of drowsiness [illegible] the eyelids of my illustrious and too unlucky friend - he clutched my hand for the second time at the same instant and without a doubt his soul bade me an eternal farewell. What a sad day for me - It's one of the greatest losses I could have experienced [illegible] - the general's shade will undoubtedly pass to the abode of my two other great friends.

Then in his 1817 Mémoires de chirurgie militaire et campagnes, which gives only a short summary of the event:

On my arrival at headquarters, a short trip from Hainaut, I learned the sad news of the deaths of Generals Kirgener and Bruyeres, and the mortal injury of Marshal Duroc, Duke of Frioul. This general had asked for me several times, and was extremely impatient to see me. He had been put in a cottage belonging to one of the inhabitants of the village where he had been wounded. On entering this cottage, where I found the marshal stretched out on a pile of straw and still dressed in his uniform, I was seized with the fear of seeing that he had been struck a mortal blow. My sinister presentiment came true only too soon. Only with difficulty could he articulate a few words. The effects of his wound could be seen through the trappings that covered him, and his face was marked with a deathly pallor. He had had the wall of his lower belly carried away by a large ball, the intestines torn at several points and thrust through the abdomen. I realized, with the greatest sorrow, that all the aid of our art couldn't save him from the near and inevitable death that awaited him. Indeed, a few hours later, this general officer, one of my honorable companions in Egypt, concluded his career. His name and those of Desaix and Lannes are deeply graven in my heart in recognition of the friendship that these illustrious warriors, raised to the highest honors, always kept for me.

And finally his 1841 Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages de 1815 à 1840, which, while still cleaned up for an audience, gets a bit closer to the anguish (and the dying man's desperation) in his journal:

General Duroc (Michel), Duke of Frioul, Grand Marshal of the Palace of Napoleon, was my intimate friend and my companion in Egypt. I saved his life by the attentive and fortunate care that I gave him for a very serious wound in the right thigh, made by the explosion of a shell at the siege of Saint Jean d'Acre (see my Egyptian Campaign); I was not so lucky for the last wound he received at the end of the battle of Wurschen, in May 1813. A cannonball, fired with full force from the enemy camp, after passing through the body of General Kirgener, shaved General Duroc's belly from right to left; his clothes were torn, a large portion of the skin of his abdomen carried away, and many circumvolutions of the small intestine pierced. This interesting wounded man was nearly in his last moments, when I arrived at the cottage where he had been left. "I've waited for you very impatiently, my dear Larrey," this unfortunate General cried, once he saw me; "You can render me the last service of a friend: I feel that my wound is beyond the resources of your art, but put an end, I beg you, to the horrible torments to which I've been subjected for thirty hours, and you will have my tenderest and last farewells." He expired a few hours later. This interview was for me one of the cruelest moments of my life. The Emperor, who had visited the Marshal some hours before me, lost his most faithful friend, his surest counselor, and one of his wisest and most intrepid warriors.

[empirearchives]

Dominique Jean Larrey, 1804

He was a French surgeon and military doctor during the Napoleonic Wars. He accompanied Napoleon on almost all of his campaigns. Napoleon called him “the most virtuous man I have ever known.”

Among his many innovations include introducing field hospitals, ambulance services, and first-aid practices to the battlefield. He was also the first to note the contagiousness of trachoma (1802) and published the first description of trench foot (1812).

Napoleon would say this of Larrey: “If the Army were to erect a monument of the memory of any one man, it should be that of Larrey. All the wounded are his family.”

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Marie-Guillemine Benoist

[isthenapoleoncute]

My Napoleon keeps running from my Larrey.

I did give my larrey a notebook and some surgical tools for entertainment (as any good owner should), but now my Napoleon won’t go near him.

What do i do? I don’t want to have to get rid of one of them. I love them both too much. 😓

Napoleons usually get along well with Larreys l, this is puzzling! I can only suspect that your Napoleon may have gotten an injury, perhaps at a Toulon, where his leg was almost amputated, and now he fears that doctors are looking for an excuse to amputate his leg.

Soothe your Napoleon and tell him it’s very unlikely that anyone will just chop off his leg for like, the sport of it. And perhaps give your Larreys some creatures to use his surgical kit on that aren’t your Napoleon, so he doesn’t feel tempted!

Nope this helps!

[bow-and-talon]

Theres a manila Envelope on his doorstep. Inside is a small letter and some sheet music. Marshal, I do apologize for the late welcome. Some... unexpected things came up. If you are ever wounded or in need of anything, please let me know. And if you are in need of a warm beverage and someone to talk to, my door is always open. - @trauma-and-truffles

P.S: Happy Birthday. In the envelope is some music for violin that my assistant put together. as I am not very good with music

Saint-Cyr's eyes glance over the sheet music, a small smile twitching at his lips.

Bonjour à vous, cher Docteur;

It is good to hear from you, although I am alarmed that the afterlife is apparently still in need of medical care. Is it so busy here that your services are still needed? Nevertheless, I am sure everyone is in good hands with you.

Please pass my gratitude along to your assistant. This is a most stirring melody. Thank you.

- L. de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

[awetistic-things]

i can’t believe my team hosting the super bowl and we’re not even playing this is embarrassing as hell 🤦🏻‍♀️

[hoppityhopster23]

Little help needed for identifying a bird.

is there any birds who are native to North America that could fit this description?

“a species of red partridge, which is very common (tetra lagopus, Lin.) differs from that in Europe in being much larger. The circumference of the eyes is ornamented with a fleshy ring of a scarlet colour. The beak is red, and the toes are covered with thick grey silk or hair, down to the nails. These partridges are also red with brown spots in the summer, and white in winter, as I know from observation. It is also said that this change of colour takes place without a change of plumage.”

I’m currently the first volume of the “Memoirs of Military Surgery” by Dominique Jean Larrey, who spent some time in Newfoundland. I can figure out all the animals he’s describing except this one.

anyone have any ideas?

[captainknell]

Fixed it

surgeon, pinching nose bridge in frustration: look, no. Skin is not like fabric. You cannot get preventative stitches in places you anticipate getting stabbed.

me: why not? :(

[credo--ergo-sum]

Sadly still very occupied with my University termpaper. I sadly dont have time to research for my paintings at the moment, as i want to portray the historical people as authentic as possible but i hope that that'll change in two weeks. Ill mostly post some quick sketches for that time, starting with this Larrey-one

[largecucumber]

Hey…

It’s been 4 months since I’ve uploaded anything and a lot has happened since. I’ve officially graduated with a bachelor’s degree and I’ve left my home, my family, friends and everything. I’m now temporarily living in a new country with my father. It’s not a safe country (I won’t name any names). I’m doing A LOT of physical training, but I’m not eating enough and my health hasn’t been great because of this. I don’t know how to explain what I’m feeling right now. It’s a sort of loss or emptiness, recent graduates might understand this. Young people in my home country with a degree in anything that isn’t STEM are struggling to find jobs. I’m in that situation too. I may soon enter into a field of work that desperate young men (or women) usually go for iykyk

Besides all that, I’m okay and hopefully I can get back to my passion and hobbies 😚💓✨

I’ve seen so many new artists in the community and I’m so happy. I miss all my mutuals. I hope y’all have been great! 👏💕

[isthenapoleoncute]

Do you recommend getting a Larrey along a Naps ? I hear they are good for the Napoleon's health

Rating: Yes, very, very, VERY CUTE!

Napoleons get along great with Larreys, and view them as among the top-tier most honest creatures they ever interact with! In general, Napoleons dislike doctors and veterinarians, so if you can find one that that the Napoleon gets along with (such as a Larrey) you can bet your Napoleon's life will be enhanced both by quality and quantity!

[captainknell]

Yep. I've decided it. Larrey is my favorite after Napoleon himself

would you have the obligeance to cure my ignorence about Dominique-Jean Larrey?

Sorry I took so long but here ya go

Dominique-Jean Larrey was the chief surgeon to Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and an important innovator in battlefield medicine. He’s considered by many to be the first modern day military surgeon. He’s famous of his humane treatment of wounded soldiers, regardless of their rank or nationality. 

His most important invention was the ambulance volante or “flying ambulances” which he created when serving in the Army of the Rhine. These ambulances were designed to transport wounded soldiers from the battlefield to the field hospitals as quickly and as safely as possible. 

He improved on the organization and mobility of field hospitals basically creating the Napoleonic version of MASH units. 

He is also credited with creating the process of sorting injured people into groups based on their need of immediate medical treatment aka triage.

He is considered to have introduced debridement (basically the removal of dead flesh from around a wound to promote the healing of healthy tissue).

He was one of the first to amputate at the hip, to write about trench foot, to take note of maggots cleaning wounds, use a feeding tube, and promote immediate amputation if necessary. 

Unsurprising, he became a favorite of Napoleon and his army. Napoleon even called him “the most virtuous man I have ever known”. Unfortunately, this lead to a lot of jealously and petty rivalries for poor Larrey. 

(also one time he was crowd surfed of a bridge by a crowd of adoring French soldiers)