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One of several drawings from "La Vieille Armee francaise" (1820) or "La Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon" (Paris, 1826), showing infantry uniforms or "military exploits under the First Empire, which made [Charlet's] work popular with the opposition under the Restoration and influential in the propagation of a mythic view of the Napoleonic era" (Oxford Art Online: Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint). This illustration depicts Napoleon standing nearby as a mob descends on the Tuileries palace on 10 August, 1792, effectively ending the Bourbon rule of Louis XVI. Napoleon stands against a wall holding a book and a pencil in his right hand. He wears blue trousers and a blue jacket with red facings. The skirts of the coat are pinned back, showing the facings, and the collar, the cuffs, and binding on the coat front are also red. The jacket is buttoned closed, and has gold epaulettes. A gold hilted and tasseled sword hangs at his side. His boots are black with white tops. He wears his hair pulled back into a short queue. His black bicorne hat rests on a chair by his side. Another chair is overturned next to it, and a single sabot rests nearby. In the background is the mob storming the Tuileries Palace, forcing the royal family to flee. In the crowd both men and women are shown, some wearing Phrygian caps, or bonnet rouge, a symbol of the Revolution.
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