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08/11/2024

November 6, 1806: The battle of Lübeck.

During the fourth coalition that unites the United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden and Prussia, against France.
This victory took place in Germany. The French were commanded by Marshals Bernadotte and Soult, who pursued the Prussians, who were retreating painfully following the defeats of Jena and Auerstedt three weeks earlier.
Blucher, at the head of the remnants of his army, took refuge in Lubeck, although it was neutral. He was caught and taken prisoner after violent street fights, and was later exchanged for General Victor.
The Swedish ships were also taken or destroyed by the French. Bernadotte's kindness towards the Swedish prisoners will not be forgotten. He will be later king of Sweden under the name of Charles XIV...
In illustration: Surrender of General Blücher.

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08/11/2024

November 5, 1792: the battle of Jemappes.
During the first coalition, the volunteers of the French army beat the Austrian soldiers at Jemappes in Belgium. Six weeks after a first success in Valmy. The young French Republic decides to push its advantage against the Prussians and the Austrians who threaten France with invasion. Dumouriez commanding the French army wins a decisive victory; the Austrian troops withdraw abandoning all the United Provinces.
In honor of this battle, the county of Jemmapes will be created by the revolutionaries.
Louis Philippe who will become king in 1830 was present at this battle.

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04/11/2024

RIP

Le monde de la musique perd aujourd’hui une légende.

03/11/2024

October 30-31, 1813: Battle of Hanau (Germany).

After the defeat of Leipzig, the Emperor could envisage no other scenario than that of the end of 1812: to regroup in France, to regain strength to continue the struggle. But conditions have changed: the Grande Armée is mostly an army of conscripts, and the Confederation of the Rhine has been shattered (the Saxons pass to the enemy in the middle of the battle of the nations). The extreme youth of the French soldier had the consequence of transforming a retreat into a rout, and the debris of the French army (about 70,000 men in arms and 30,000 unarmed and disbanded) was spread over two days of march. As for yesterday's allies, they set up a lock in Hanau, composed of Austro-Bavarian troops commanded by General de Wrède, to which a Russo-Austrian force was added, intended to prohibit the return of the French army to French soil. About 45,000 coallies claim to be competing with 17,000 Frenchmen, mainly troops of the Imperial Guard. For an indecisive moment, the fate of the battle is decided by a charge by the Guard cavalry. The road to France was saved.

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03/11/2024

November 3, 1793: Olympe de Gouges is guillotined by order of the Revolutionary Court. The famous author of the "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen" and considered one of the pioneers of French feminism, she first made a name for herself with her royalist writings, before becoming a republican two years later, after the escape of Louis XVI arrested at Varennes.

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31/10/2024

Bonjour tout le monde, j’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer les dates de mon prochain concert: le Messie de Handel! ➡️c’est par ici 👉

Depuis plus d’un quart de siècle, la Paris Choral Society a enchanté un public international par de remarquables interprétations de chefs-d’œuvre du chant choral. For over 25 years, the Paris Choral Society has delighted international audiences with outstanding performances of choral masterw...

22/10/2024

October 22, 1895:
A train derails at the Montparnasse station, Parisians immortalized the event with a photo that has since gone down in history!

The train left Granville at 8:45 am and was expected in Paris at 3:55 pm.

It was composed of the locomotive, its 'tender' (the fuel supply car), two baggage cars, a mail van and ten passenger cars.

Despite attempts to brake the locomotive, it entered the hall of the Montparnasse station at a speed of 40 km/h, which caused panic on the platform.

The train pulverized the bumper, ploughed through the concrete of the median and crossed the front wall to finally topple into the void.

The end of the locomotive sank into the ground at a streetcar station.

One death is to be deplored: that of Marie-Augustine Aiguillard, 39 years old, mother of two children of 5 and 9 years old, newspaper merchant installed at the tramway station.

Illustration : Photograph of October 22, 1895, credited to the firm Levy & fils or to a photographer named "Kuhn" according to the editors (colorized version).

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16/10/2024

16/10/2024

October 16, 1793, Marie-Antoinette is guillotined.
The interrogation of the queen in the press:
"The president - Your state?
The accused - Widow of the king of France."

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15/10/2024

Grands magasins du Louvre

14/10/2024

The Grande Galerie of the LOUVRE MUSEUM on the eve of the Second World War!

📷: Marc Vaux (1939)

08/10/2024

October 08, 1813 marks The Treaty of Ried signed by Carl Philipp von Wrede, representing the Kingdom of Bavaria, and Henri XV of Reuss-Plauen for the Austrian Empire.
Bavaria was guaranteed to remain a sovereign and independent state in exchange for its withdrawal from the Confederation of the Rhine to join the Sixth Coalition. As a consequence of this treaty, the Kingdom of Bavaria declared war on France on October 14.
The Sixth Coalition was a new war waged by the European monarchies against Napoleon 1st's France. It began on March 03, 1813, and will end on May 30, 1814.

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07/10/2024

on this day October 7th in 1337...
The 100 Years' War began.
Without going into it in detail, this dispute for the throne of France was first and foremost a family affair between the Plantagenets, descended from the Counts of Anjou du Maine and the Dukes of Normandy, on the one hand, and the Valois on the other.
Edward III, King of England, a Plantagenet, totally French-speaking, is the grandson of King Philip IV of France, known as "le bel", through his mother Isabelle of France.
Although he could logically claim the throne of France, the peers of France preferred Philippe de Valois (nephew of Philippe le bel), a more experienced prince whom they knew better.
French-English rivalry in Flanders and French support for Scotland, which England wanted to subjugate, exacerbated the problem.
Edward III publicly challenged the King of France by questioning the legitimacy of Philip VI of Valois, his distant cousin.
The rest is history…
Illustration: Coat of arms of the kings of France and the Plantagenets.

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05/10/2024

Octobre 5th, 816
Louis, King of Aquitaine, is crowned at Reims and becomes Louis 1st, known as "Le Pieux" or "Le Débonnaire". Charlemagne's son first took the title of Emperor of the West, before combining it with that of King of the Franks.
He was the first to be crowned at Reims. He reigned until his death on June 20, 840.

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