Vue de la Grande Parade par l'Empereur dans la Cour du Palais des Thuilleries
View of a Grand Parade by the Emperor, in the court of the Tuileries Palace
Vue de
la Grande Parade par l'Empereur Dans la cour de la Palais des Thuilleries
52 x 39cm
1804-
Military
parades were a regular occurrence when Napoleon was in residence at the Tuileries
Palace. They started as weekly events under the Consulate but became monthly under
the Empire. "During these reviews he would regularly grant a few favours, distribute
titles or crosses, or give new promotions in the regiments under his eyes. These
promotions always had a kind of prestige to them, a certain appropriateness especially
striking the morale of the soldier that Napoleon had acknowledged.
Napoleon had the
highest skill of the great art in knowing how to dramatize the most ordinary act....."