Wax bust of Napoléon Trudon - Beige

During the Consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) knew he had to be portrayed in order to win over the French. He was to be the main architect of his legend. All media were used, from sculpture to snuffboxes and fans. The multiplicity of objects bearing the Emperor's effigy or representing imperial...

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During the Consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) knew he had to be portrayed in order to win over the French. He was to be the main architect of his legend. All media were used, from sculpture to snuffboxes and fans. The multiplicity of objects bearing the Emperor's effigy or representing imperial symbols was an extraordinary means of propagating the Napoleonic legend. But with the Restoration, the Bonapartists had to fight an underground battle, multiplying the number of seditious objects. The death of the Emperor in 1821 made him less dangerous in the eyes of the royalists, and productions of the hero's figure and his principal feats of arms resumed with force. The Second Empire (1852) formalized the imperial legend, commissioning sculptures for public squares and paintings for museums. Although the Second Empire took up the official propaganda, the fall of the regime in 1870 put Napoleon's image on hold for twenty years. It was not until the awakening of national sentiment in the 1890s that the image of the hero he has been ever since reappeared.

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