Description
Book SynopsisIn 2015, the Vendôme column regained its initial splendour thanks to a long restoration campaign supported by the Vendôme committee and particularly the Ritz.
During the dismantling of the scaffolding, David Bordes took exceptional shots of all the column plates. Published here for the first time, these 450 photographs form a fascinating and totally new corpus: the details of the battle scenes, the military costumes, the landscapes which constitute the setting of the battle of Austerlitz allow one to discover the column as it had never been revealed.
Based on the shots of David Bordes, but also on paintings, old photographs, period documents, this widely illustrated art book in exceptional format and workmanship brings the history of the column to life, its sources, its destruction, its restoration, and also describes the moving history of the daily life of the Grande Armée during the Austerlitz campaign.
Table of ContentsPréface JEAN TULARD UN MONUMENT COMMÉMORATIF HORS_DU_COMMUN Naissance d’une colonne JEAN_PAUL NERRIÈRE L’architecture de la colonne LAURENT BARIDON Du dessin aux bas-reliefs, une étonnante armée de_sculpteurs CLAIRE MAINGON La colonne Trajane, modèle de la colonne Vendôme_? CLAIRE MAINGON Empereur romain ou petit caporal, les statues sommitales JEAN_PAUL NERRIÈRE Démolition et reconstruction JEAN_PAUL NERRIÈRE La restauration de la colonne, CHRISTOPHE BOTTINEAU Une colonne à la une, caricatures et polémiques HUBERT CAVANIOL LE PEUPLE DE LA GRANDE ARMÉE ANTOINE DE MEAUX LA GRANDE ARMÉE DE NAPOLÉON JEAN_PAUL NERRIÈRE La colonne de la Grande Armée d’Ambroise Tardieu Dragons, hussard et grenadiers… les troupes de l’Empereur Musique, tambours et trompettes Les principales armes, canons et fusils Les illustres Chronologie Bibliographie Index
