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1812 In France
Events from the year 1812 in France Incumbents * Emperor – Napoleon I Events * The Peninsular War (1807–1814) * 12 February – Metric system rescinded for everyday use * 24 June - 14 December – The French invasion of Russia Arts and culture * ''The Charging Chasseur'', painting by Théodore Géricault * ''Fantasmagoriana'', book by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès Births * 4 January – Alexandre Monnet, bishop (died 1849) * 15 April – Théodore Rousseau, painter (died 1867) * 13 June – Adolphe Braun, photographer (died 1877) * 9 November – Paul Abadie, architect (died 1884) Deaths * 13 February – Jacques Marie Boutet, actor and comic dramatist (born 1745) * 24 February – Étienne-Louis Malus, military officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1775) * 24 July – Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (born 1747) * 30 August – Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, poet (born 1764) * 22 October – Alexis Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Officer Of The Imperial Horse Guards Charging
''The Charging Chasseur'', or ''An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging'' is an oil painting on canvas of about 1812 by the French painter Théodore Géricault, portraying a mounted Napoleonic cavalry officer who is ready to attack. The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of Géricault's attempt to condense both movement and structure in its art. It represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's ''Napoleon Crossing the Alps'', but non- classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling. In ''The Charging Chasseur'', the horse appears to be rearing away from an unseen attacker. The turning figure on a rearing horse is derived from the large early Rubens ''Saint George'' (Museo del Prado, 1605–07), though there the view is from the side. Géricault would continue to move away from classicism, as exemplified in his later masterpiece ''The Raft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Braun
Jean Adolphe Braun (13 June 1812 – 31 December 1877)John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography', Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 204–205. was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. One of the most influential French photographers of the 19th century, he used contemporary innovations in photographic reproduction to market his photographs worldwide. In his later years, he used photographic techniques to reproduce famous works of art, which helped advance the field of art history.Naomi Rosenblum, John Hannavy (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography', Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 203–204. Life Braun was born in Besançon in 1812, the eldest child of Samuel Braun (1785–1877), a police officer, and Marie Antoinette Regard (born 1795). When he was about 10, his family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Eblé
Jean Baptiste Eblé (21 December 1758 – 31 December 1812) was a French General, Engineer and Artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars. He is credited with saving Napoleon's Grand Army from complete destruction in 1812. Biography Eblé was born in Saint-Jean-Rohrbach, Moselle. He, like his father, started out in the artillery when he joined the army in 1793. He was commissioned as an officer two years later. Rising rapidly through the ranks, he served in northern Germany, and commanded an artillery brigade at Austerlitz in 1805 before becoming governor of Magdeburg in 1806 and Minister of War for Westphalia in 1808. The following year, he was assigned to Spain serving in the army of Marshal Masséna where he commanded the French artillery at Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida. In 1811, Eblé was put in command of the Dutch Pontoon bridge builders (''pontonniers'') for the Grande Armée which Napoleon was assembling for his invasion of Russia. Eblé discovered he had inherited a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Henri Larcher
Pierre Henri Larcher (12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. Life Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics. His (anonymous) translation of Chariton's ''Callirhoe'' (1763) marked him as an excellent Greek scholar. His attack upon Voltaire's '' Philosophie de l'historie'' (published under the name of l'Abbé Bazin) created considerable interest at the time. His archaeological and mythological '' Memoire sur Venus'' (1775), which has been ranked with similar works of Heyne and Winckelmann, gained him admission to the Academie des Inscriptions (1778). After the imperial university was founded, he was appointed professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant. Larcher's best work was his translation of Herodotus (1786, new ed. by L Humbert, 1880) on the preparation of which he had spent fifteen years. The translation itself, though correct, is dull, but the commentary ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal
Emmanuel Maximilien-Joseph Guidal (31 December 1764 – 29 October 1812) was a French general known for his role in the Malet Conspiracy which was aimed at toppling Napoleon I, who was away from Paris when the events of it occurred. Life Guidal was born on 31 December 1764. He may have been the General Guidal who, using treachery, lured Chouan rebel Louis de Frotté to Alençon, where the man was seized and executed. A supporter of the French Republic, Guidal disagreed with Napoleon I and, after conspiring with the British, was incarcerated in La Force prison. During Malet's coup in 1812, Guidal was released from prison, along with General Victor Lahorie, by Claude Francois de Malet, a former general and leading conspirator in the coup. Guidal, with a detachment of National Guards, was to arrest Henri Clarke, the Minister of War, and Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Joseph Delzons
Alexis Joseph Delzons (1775October 24, 1812) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was killed in the Battle of Maloyaroslavets. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 16. French Revolutionary Wars Born in Aurillac in 1775, Delzons enlisted in a battalion of volunteers from the département of the Cantal as a lieutenant of grenadiers. He served in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793 in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees during which he distinguished himself at Jonquière, where he was wounded, and in the Siege of Rosas. Transferred to the Army of Italy, Delzons distinguished himself at Montenotte, Dego and Lodi. Captured near Mantua he was exchanged eight days later. After having distinguished himself in the Battle of Rivoli, Delzons was promoted to chef de bataillon on the field of battle. Taking part in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, at the age of 23 Delzons was promoted to the command of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste Legouvé (23 June 1764 – 30 August 1812) was an 18th–19th-century French poet and playwright. Legouvé was born and died in Paris, and was the seventh member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1803. Legouvé was the father of Ernest Legouvé (1807–1903), later a member of the Académie française, and son of Jean-Baptiste Legouvé (1729–1783) who wrote the pastoral ''La Mort d'Abel'' (1793) and a tragedy ''Epicharis et Nerón''. Works *1784: ''Polyxène'', tragedy *1786: ''La Mort des fils de Brutus'', héroïde *1792: ''La mort d'Abel'', three-act tragedy *1794: ''Épicharis et Néron'', tragedy *1795: ''Quintus Fabius'', tragedy *1798: ''Laurence'', tragedy *1798: ''La Sépulture'', elegy *1799: ''Étéocle et Polynice'', tragedy *1799: ''Les Souvenirs d'une demoiselle sodomisée'', elegy *1800: ''La Mélancolie'', elegy *1801: ''Le Mérite des femmes'', poem *1801: ''Christophe Morin'' *1806: ''La Mort d'Henri IV'', tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Thomas Villaret De Joyeuse
Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1747Granier, p.87Some biographers give a date of 1750 (Levot, p.541). Granier quotes the registers of Sainte-Marie parish. Р24 July 1812Levot, p.544) was a French admiral. Villaret was born at Auch. After serving in the Indies under Suffren, he rose in rank during the early stages of the French Revolution. He was in command of the French fleet during the Glorious First of June, where despite being handed a heavy tactical defeat, he ensured the passage of a vital grain convoy to France. He led the French fleet during the disastrous Croisi̬re du Grand Hiver and failed to prevent a British fleet from successfully retreating, with his last battle being a defeat off Groix. He was relieved when he refused to serve for the disastrous Exp̩dition d'Irlande. Villaret was then elected at the Council of Five Hundred. He joined the Club de Clichy, a party promoting colonies and slavery, and harbouring Royalist sympathies. After the Coup of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Louis Malus
Étienne-Louis Malus (; ; 23 July 1775 – 23 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. Malus was born in Paris, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition into Egypt (1798 to 1801) and was a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'Égypte. Malus became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810. In 1810 the Royal Society of London awarded him the Rumford Medal. His mathematical work was almost entirely concerned with the study of light. He studied geometric systems called ''ray systems'', closely connected to Julius Plücker's ''line geometry''. He conducted experiments to verify Christiaan Huygens's theories of light and rewrote the theory in analytical form. His discovery of the polarization of light by reflection was published in 1809 and his theory of double refraction of light in crystals, in 1810. Malus attempted to identify the relationship between the polarising angle of reflection that he had discovered, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Marie Boutet
Jacques Marie Boutet (25 March 1745 – 13 February 1812) was a French actor and comic playwright from Lunéville. His pseudonym was Monvel. He was a small, thin man without good looks or voice, and yet he became one of the greatest comedians of his time. Biography After some years of apprenticeship in the provinces, he made his debut in 1770 at the Comédie-Française in Merope and Zenaide; he was received sociétaire in 1772. For some unknown reason, Monvel secretly left Paris for Sweden in 1781, as the head of a troupe of French actors. He became reader to the king, a post which he held for several years. Until 1786, he was the director for the French theatre in Bollhuset and had a great importance for the development for the organisation of the native Swedish theater as the educator of the first Swedish actors for the Royal Dramatic Theatre, such as Fredrique Löwen, Lars Hjortsberg and Maria Franck, in the modern style of acting; among his troupe of French actors was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Abadie
Paul Abadie (9 November 1812 – 3 August 1884) was a French architect and building restorer. He is considered a central representative of French historicism. He was the son of architect Paul Abadie Sr. Abadie worked on the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, Église Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, Saint-Pierre of Angoulême and Saint-Front of Périgueux. He won the competition in 1873 to design the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on Montmartre in Paris, and saw construction commence on it, though he died long before its completion in 1914. Biography Paul Abadie (Jr.) was born on 9 November 1812 in Paris, France. He was the son of Paul Abadie Sr., who was also an architect in France. He entered the School of Fine Arts (École des Beaux-Arts) in 1835; under the direction of the Monsieur Achille Leclère. As attaché to the commission for historical monuments, he participated in the architectural rediscovery of the Middle Ages, touring and studying medieval sites intensively. Abadie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
