#musee de l'armee

[armthearmour]

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

[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)

Source

[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. 

[museoweb]

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

[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.

[sigitheunicorn]

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

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[peppart]

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

[peashooter85]

A set of four pistol belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte, crafted by Nicolas Noel Boutet in 1805

from the Musee de l'Armee

[george-steel-armours]

1.📸 late 14th century.

There is a fleur-de-lis mark struck on the upper portion of the blade. The disc-shaped pommel is made of brass.

Overall length: 96.3 cm (37.9"); Blade length: 77.5 cm (30.5").

Located at Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg, Germany.

2.📸 A Central-European Medieval Sword, circa 1300.

Slender double-edged blade; short fuller at the base stamped with the letter “A” in Gothic script. Straight cross-guard tapering towards the ends. Slender tang, disc pommel with inlaid bronze disc on one side, the inlay on the other side missing.

Overall length 86.5 cm (34.1").

Provenance: Old Hessian private collection.

Copyright © Hermann Historica Auction House.

3.📸 An Eastern European Medieval Sword with Scabbard, first half of the 14th century.

The hilt all encrusted with silver (niello). The blade inlaid with gilt inscriptions. The upper back side of the blade engraved with a Mameluk inscription (arsenal of Alexandria). Leather bound scabbard with silver mounts.

Overall length: 105.3 cm (41.5"); Blade length: 88.4 cm (34.8"); Scabbard length: 89.5 cm (35.2”).

Located at Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg, Germany.

4.📸 Circa 1350.

Reign of Jean II of France (1350-1364), reign of Philippe VI (1328-1350).

Musee de l'Armee, Paris, 678 PO ; J.

Lettering in gilt brass in the central fuller: "Nulla de virtutibus tuis major clementia est" ("None of your virtues are greater than clemency"). Leather grip over wood, partially gilded wrought iron hilt, brass inlay, rock crystal inset into pommel.

Shown as Type XIV.8 in Ewart Oakeshott's "Records of the Medieval Sword".

Overall length: 97 cm (38.2").

© Paris - Musée de l'Armée, Dist. RMN / Emilie Cambier.