#musee de l'armee

[armthearmour]

A pair of elaborate puffed and slashed Arm Harnesses, Germany, ca. 1520, housed at the Musée de l'Armée.

[dispatchvampire]

One of my favorite places in the world. & my favorite museum. They have cannons! So. Many. Cannons.

Pont Alexandre III and Les Invalides. Paris (by David)

[sigitheunicorn]

21st-24th October 2024: Disneyland Paris & Paris🗼💕

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[haute-lifestyle-com]

Cultival and the Musée de l'Armée - Invalides are set to launch a new immersive multimedia experience created by the Moment Factory studio at the Dôme des Invalides. Aura Invalides will open on 22 September for several seasons.

[assault-tits]

Model 1892 Lebel revolvers at the Musee de l'Armee in Paris

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

History - Waterloo - Napoleon Bonaparte

If you stroll through Paris, Napoleon is nearly omnipresent: be it in the listed battles at the Arc de Triomphe and countless street names remembering his great military victories and people of his military staff, or buildings that were built by him or to his honor. I was very interested in military history of that period, so a visit to the 'Dome des Invalides' (where Napoleon's tomb is situated) and the 'Musee de l'Armee' was a must. Napoleon was a military genius - but had forgotten that only peace leads to lasting success.

We Germans had an ambivalent relationship to Napoleon: on the one hand he was the hope to spread the spirit of the French Revolution in Germany - on the other hand he also meant war and suffering. Napoleon reorganized the many small states in Germany and was thus probably the obstetrician of the German nation. Europe was united at those days - under the leadership of France. With overthrowing Napoleon by the old aristocratic powers in Europe, an opportunity for a united Europe has been probably wasted.

Napoleon‘s Adieux to the Old Guard at Fontainebleau, 20th April 1814.

Speech to the Old Guard at Fontainebleau after Napoleon’s abdication in the movie „Waterloo“ (not the original speech - but nevertheless similar moving):

-Simplicius Simplicissimus

[akikumiko]

Gosh, I love this couple totebag. It says: “I love you like tabacco smoke and war disorder” on the General Lasalle bag and “My heart is for you, my blood for the Emperor and my life for honor” on Joséphine d’Aiguillon one.

Pics from the Musée de l’Armée - Invalides, they are doing a campaign to raise funds to buy General Lasalle’s wife portrait.

[napoleondidthat]

Napoleon Strategist--Les Invalides, Paris.

Photos: Rebecca Young (Napoleon Foundation)

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[armthearmour]

In this case actually, the Victorians are to blame. There is a "visored barbute" housed at the Musée de l'Armée in France, pictured below (left) alongside a well done reproduction (left).

The trouble is, this helmet is an example of so called "frankenarmor," a period skull and visor which were put together in the Victorian period despite being unrelated, so the armor would look more "complete."

Ian LaSpina made a video on the subject which can be found here.

You’ve mentioned before how visored barbutes weren’t really a thing, how did they come about then?

Like studded leather, back scabbards, boobplate, and forever-strung bows, they were made up by Hollywood, the video game industry, and LARPers. In this specific case however I’m pretty sure Buhurt is to blame, but I could be wrong on that.

[armthearmour]

A beautiful damascened Rapier decorated with ram motifs,

OaL: 42.9 in/109 cm

France, ca. 1550-1560, housed at the Musée de l'Armée.

[ukdamo]

Today’s photo with the most hits - General Kleber, one of Napoleon’s generals. You can meet and greet him in the Musee de l’Armee in Paris, France. 

[sigitheunicorn]

21st-24th October 2024: Disneyland Paris & Paris🗼💕

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[museoweb]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Napoleone sul suo trono imperiale - 1806

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Napoleone sul suo trono imperiale - 1806

[edanhier]

 © EDanhier 

Museum Night Fever 2021, Brussels. © EDanhier 2021.

[jessiechensaid]

Napoleon I was exiled to the island of St. Helena and that is where he died in 1821. In 1840, his remains were returned to Paris and buried in Les Invalides. These gigantic statues surround and guard his tomb. 

Les Invalides, Paris, France