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Français : Le Commencement et La Fin (

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Artist

Anonymous

Title

Français : Le Commencement et La Fin

Description

English: Napoleon, dressed as a harlequin, jumps from a small boat onto the island of Elba, where he sees a fort. He has a wooden sword in his belt and wears a riding boot on one foot, and a clog on the other, inscribed with the word Corsica. (The clog could be a play on words: the French word is "sabot", but the word "nabot" is slang for a very short person.) The words on his costume list the stages of his career. He carries the flag he chose for Elba, which was first used in the time of the Medicis and on which you see the bees that symbolized his empire.

When Napoleon was exiled to Elba, he was given sovereignty over it and allowed to keep a tiny navy to defend it. The title may be tongue-in-cheek, since Talleyrand called the campaign of 1813 that culminated in the disastrous Battle of the Nations (Leipzig) "The beginning and the end."

Reference source: Clerc #64; George #12249.
Published May 3, 1814, according to Clerc, or in March, according to Broadley. Also found in the De Vinck collection (#9353) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris).

Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Date

1814

Medium

English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 25 x 18 cm. on sheet 29 x 21 cm.

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

University of Washington: Special Collections

Accession number

79

Place of creation

Paris

Inscriptions

Caption on image :

Le Commencement et La Fin (The beginning and the end)

Words on suit :

     G’al de l’armée d’Egypte (General of the Army of Egypt)

Bonaparte

Restaurateur (Restorer)

Consul à vie (Consul for life)
Pacificateur (Peacemaker)
1er consul
Capi. D’Artillerie (Captain of the artillery)
G'al de la 17e division 13 Vend (General of the 17th division, 13th day of the month Vendemiaire [also known as the festival of the pumpkin]
Eleve à l’Ecole Militaire (Student at the Ecole Militaire)
Buonaparte
Gnl de l’armée d’Italie (General of the army of Italy)
Pdt de la République Italienne (President of the Italian republic
Emp des Français (Emperor of the French)
Roi d’Italie (King of Italy)
Protecteur de la Confed du Rhin (Protector of the confederacy of the Rhine)

Bourgeois de l’Ile d’Elbe (Bourgeois of the island of Elba .

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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