Month: September 2011

Napoleonic Historical Society Conference

July 19, 2020
Image from the Napoleonic Historical Society website

Last weekend, my husband Bert and I attended the Napoleonic Historical Society’s annual conference. Held this year in Baltimore, Maryland, the agenda included lectures on Napoleonic topics as well as NHS president Sheperd Paine’s excellent overview of the War of 1812, in which the Baltimore region played a part. (Francis Scott Key wrote the Star …

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Goya’s Portrait of French General Guye

July 19, 2020

Last weekend at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, I came across Francisco Goya’s stunning painting of the Napoleonic general Nicolas Philippe Guye.  Guye had been wounded at Austerlitz and later served as aide-de-camp to Napoleon’s older brother Joseph. In 1810, when Goya painted this portrait, Guye was governor of Seville and Joseph …

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