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Period postcard. The Napoleonic legend "My Emperor, this one’s the best cooked" (the night before Austerlitz)

Click here for the previous from our Austerlitz Album: The night before Austerlitz (Epinal image) Click here for the next image from our Austerlitz Album: The Battle of Austerlitz, after Adam
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Period postcard. Austerlitz: Napoleon viewing the battlefield with a telescope

Click here for the previous image from our Austerlitz Album: The Battle of Austerlitz, after Adam Click here for the next image from our Austerlitz Album: The Reception of the Austerlitz standards (at Notre-Dame)
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Period postcard. Napoleon Bonaparte. The Battle of Austerlitz

Click here for the previous image from our Austerlitz Album: Napoleon. Austerlitz Click here for the first image in our Austerlitz Album: The watch before Austerlitz, 1 December, 1805For a jigsaw puzzle of this image, click here.
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Period postcard. The Reception of the Austerlitz standards (at Notre-Dame)

The Archbishop of Paris at Notre-Dame received the standards captured at Austerlitz with great pomp, and they were hung from the vaults. Napoleon thus became the new “tapissier” (tapestry hanger) of Notre-Dame, in line the famous epithet given to the Maréchal de Luxembourg after the Battle of Fleurus in 1690.Click here, for the previous image […]
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Period postcard. The watch before Austerlitz, 1 December, 1805

Click here for the next image in our Austerlitz Album: The night before Austerlitz, Epinal image
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Period postcard: Napoleon. Austerlitz

Click here for the previous image in our Austerlitz Album: The Apogee (Austerlitz 1805) Click here for the next image in our Austerlitz Album: Napoleon Bonaparte. The Battle of Austerlitz
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Period postcard: The Apogee (Austerlitz, 1805)

Click here for the previous image in our Austerlitz Album: The Reception of the Austerlitz standards (at Notre-Dame) Click here for the next image in our Austerlitz Album: Napoleon. Austerlitz
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Commemorative monument in Zbysov: The Monument to the Three Emperors (close-up)

As part of the celebrations for the bi-centenary of of the Battle of Austerlitz (1805-2005), a commemorative monument has been erected by the Czech Napoleonic Society in Zbysov, a small site close to Slavkov, better known by its old name, Austerlitz.Inaugurated on 15 September this month, the monument is dedicated to the three emperors who […]
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Commemorative monument in Zbysov: The Monument to the Three Emperors (general view)

As part of the celebrations for the bi-centenary of of the Battle of Austerlitz (1805-2005), a commemorative monument has been erected by the Czech Napoleonic Society in Zbysov, a small site close to Slavkov, better known by its old name, Austerlitz.Inaugurated on 15 September this month, the monument is dedicated to the three emperors who […]
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Dress and train worn on the day of Napoleon’s coronation

This dress and its train (known in French as a queue de cour) were worn by the wife of the Conseiller d’Etat, Jean Bérenger (1767-1850) (Comte de l’Empire in 1808), during the ceremony of the coronation of Napoleon I. The dress is in ivory silk, delicately embroidered with silver and gold thread. On the shoulders […]