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Napoleon017

Freestuff Illustration posted on Aug 01, 2016

Contains nudity, profanity, violence

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I flagged this for language and violence because of the following citations from histories of the French Revolution, not because of the artwork. Napoleon is comparing the terror of Robespierre to the terror of the French Aristocrats returning to power in France. The English were disgusted with the behavior of their French Allies in victory. Michelet and Carlisle in their histories of the French revolution say that before the Revolution Aristocrats claimed the right to warm their hands and feet after a hunt by slitting open the belly of a serf or peasant and inserting their hands into the peasants living body to warm them. The return of the 'good guys' to power in France was not a triumph for human rights. Some Black historians have compared peasants and serfs to slaves in the US. The difference is that slaves in the US were treated better and had more rights than peasants and serfs in Europe and the peasants and serfs in Eastern Europe and Russia were not freed until 25 years or so after the Civil War in the US according to a letter written by Frederick Douglass in 1888. "A Manuscript, found in the portfolio of Las Casas, containing Maxims and Observations of Napoleon, collected during the last two years of his residence at St. Helena. Translated from the French, printed for Alexander Black, foreign libary, 77, Pall-mall, 1820." So reads the title page of the volume. Questions about its provenance or accuracy derive from the fact that the British confiscated Las Casas papers, and it spent some time in their care. The British might have created it or altered it for propaganda reasons. The forward by a French author states that the contents are convincingly Napoleonic. Searches on the web found nothing in English to identify the volume as authoritative or not. It is widely available in old books collections and libraries around the world, suggesting it was accepted as legitimate. It also seems to be the source of "Napoleon's Maxims of War". Given how widely it was published and accepted, I expect it is considered authentic, though there is no Wiki entry, or history of the book aside from descriptions from online booksellers. It is available free in PDF from Google books. It should be interesting to go through. Stage is baroque cabinet by Vcernicek. Statues are by andi3d aka mortem vetus. Parasol is by Adam Thwaite. Hats are by Varsel aka Jim Farris. Dragonthrone by Natrix aka Dmon. Tutu is from my freestuff. Models are V2 in textures and characters from my freestuff. Todays Fractal music video. The video is fractal art done on Apophysis, the music is fractal music done on Quasifractal composer. You can download albums from my freestuff here at Renderosity or make your own. You can use the free version of switch sound file converter to convert the MIDI files to MP3 for your videos. They do look better on full screen.

Comments (4)


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Sarahdar

9:24AM | Mon, 01 August 2016

very interesting, great image

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Richardphotos

2:05PM | Mon, 01 August 2016

I looked up the word "niggardly" as I and many others misinterpreted the meaning. it is an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly"

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Cyve

4:15PM | Mon, 01 August 2016

Fantastic scene and composition once again !!!

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Artienne

7:08AM | Sat, 10 September 2016

Well done!


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