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title: NAPOLEON REASONABLY ANSWERS TO A POPULAN

subject date: 2018-06-23

caption: Napoleon BONAPARTE (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) in the years in which he was commissioned by the government to maintain public order, one day since the distribution of bread was lacking, the crowd composed of most women met in a threatening tone and one a very corpulent woman, she addressed the officers who passed by shouting that, in order to gain weight well on their own, they cared little for the starving people. Napoleon, who was very thin at the time, replied "Look at me good woman and tell me which of us is fatter"; a general laugh welcomed the witty response and the people's fury was overcome. Engraving by Antonio Bonamore (1845-1907), from "History of Napoleon" by Jacques De Norvins (18 June 1769 - 30 July 1854), Edoardo Sonzogno publisher, Milan 1893

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Francia

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Creation date: 2018-06-19 14:56:49

object name: 72876

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: XVIII

subject epoch: Guerre napoleoniche

technique: Incisione

id: 41527

file name: FSNgilardi_72876.jpg

keywords

Napoleon BonaparteAntonio BonamoreFrancehumorJacques Marquet de Montbreton de NorvinsbiographybiographerhistoryliteraturehistoricalN. BonaparteNapoleonic warsFrenchBonamore A.storyoilythinpartyfrom mesupplyEighteenth century