{"id":74197,"date":"2018-10-15T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.napoleon-cologne.fr\/?p=74197"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:49:09","slug":"napoleon-bonapartes-emblems-between-simplicity-and-erudition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.napoleon-cologne.fr\/en\/napoleon-bonapartes-emblems-between-simplicity-and-erudition\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Bonaparte’s emblems : between simplicity and erudition"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ column_width_pixel=”900″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h1″ text_weight=”300″ text_height=”fontheight-1-6″ text_color=”color-150243″ separator=”yes” sub_reduced=”yes”]Napoleon I forged his own emblems far from those too connoted of the Ancien R\u00e9gime<\/em>. The young Emperor intends to offer new perspectives to France history whose values \u200b\u200bare now supported by strong legible and historical symbols.<\/strong>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”fontheight-168105″ text_color=”color-150243″]The antique influence.<\/strong>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Already consul Bonaparte (1799 – 1804) make clear, in his choice of furniture and art objects, an assurance which supported a broader thought in the matter of political will. Once Emperor, his architects and decorators Percier (1764 – 1838) and Fontaine (1762 – 1853) undertook to impose an official style flow with tastes of Roman antiquity. Massive mahogany and marble furniture evoked ancient temples, the luxurious sobriety of gilded bronzes borrowed the decorations of Republican Rome while the golden yellow, green, crimson and purple colors drew on the newly discovered frescoes of Herculaneum and Pompeii. It was at the dawn of his coronation that arose the thorny problem of the future imperial emblems. Everyone went there with his animal; the least chauvinists proposed the lion or the elephant while the most patriotic have their heart set on rooster. Others, probably more bucolic, suggested the oak. While the gallinace seemed to prevail for a time, it was ousted by the lion, itself scratched by the hand of Napoleon who preferred the eagle. The eagle \u00a0which was also the emblem of imperial Rome elegantly associated the high antiquity and the traditional heraldry through the evocation of the Carolingian eagle.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]