FUCK YEAH NAPOLEON!

A print that I have yet to see elsewhere. R. Lefebre painter, A. Desnoyes engraver.  - from my own collection of Napoleon related books. 

Napoleon

from Napoleon's diaries (from the book, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on St. Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Patricia Clancy (Translator))

The Emperor’s Death Day - 5, May 1821

Napoleon Embarking On Board The Bellerophon Book II

Napoleon in Cairo, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 19th century

Broussard’s Napoleon Patio New Orleans, La. 

ISABEY - Bonaparte 1er Consul Musee De Versailles Daily Drawings

WHAT A LESSON FOR MAN!  http://archive.org/stream/napoleongalleryo00reveiala#page/n33/mode/2up

In honour of the Oscars ... This is a gouache & pencil drawing of the actor Albert Dieudonné, from the 1927 silent film Napoléon by Abel Gance

The Battle of Jena  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jena%E2%80%93Auerstedt

"An impressive array of Napoleon Bonaparte’s belongings have arrived in Australia at the National Gallery of Victoria.The collection not only includes luxurious jewellery, watches and silverware, it demonstrates Napoleon’s links to Australia." http://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article.aspx?id=2426&h=Napoleon%E2%80%99s-jewellery-hits-Australia

Shared Destinies event is one among many exhibits planned across Europe to mark Battle of Waterloo’s bicentenary

It's also the anniversary of The Battle of Austerlitz. The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. On 2 December 1805 (20 November Old Style, 11 Frimaire An XIV, in the French Republican Calendar), a French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place near Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna) about 10 km (6 mi) south-east of Brno in Moravia, at that time in the Austrian Empire (present day Czech Republic). The battle was a tactical masterpiece of the same stature as the ancient battles of Gaugamela and Cannae, in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. - Wikipedia

Today is Napoleon's Coronation Day "On 2 December, 1804, the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was the stage on which the coronation of Napoleon I was played out, in the presence of Pope Pius VII. The new emperor broke from tradition by crowning himself and pronouncing an oath guaranteeing the preservation of the gains of the Revolution." Le Sacre de Napoléon,  1807 by Jacques-Louis David (the official painter of Napoleon) "The painting has imposing dimensions, as it is almost ten metres wide by approximately six metres tall".