Chapter 3242 The Responsibilities of Ministers (Part 2)

There are many paintings by Charles Leblanc in the collection of the Louvre. He was the director of the Royal Academy of Sculpture and Painting during the Louis XIV period and was also Louis XIV's chief painter.

Among his works is a portrait of Justice Sergière. At first glance, one might have thought it was a portrait of a king traveling.

The Lord Chancellor is riding on a horse, surrounded by several young and beautiful attendants. There is a painting at the other end of the gallery depicting Charles I. He dismounts. He does not wear armor or clothing that can highlight his identity. The painter just uses "noble temperament" "Reveal its identity.

In January 1649, Cromwell formed a trial court and executed Charles I. According to the portraits left behind, the judges at that time were all wearing black robes and large collars. This kind of clothing was very influenced by the Netherlands.

At the National Assembly where Louis XVI was tried, the members were not uniformly dressed. There were all kinds of clothes, but they did not wear judge's robes.

A British MP named Edmund Burke once wrote in his "On the French Revolution": In some things, restraint and politeness require us to be cautious and therefore keep silent, while in others There are some things in which a higher degree of caution dictates that we speak our mind.

What Georgiana said to Mazie was not on a whim, but she had been prepared for it, but she just didn't find the time. But she really didn't expect the convoluted words Sir Merry said.

That map of the Cotton Belt is related to Leon Coeur's travels in the Americas. At about 100 degrees west longitude, rainfall changes greatly.

Georgiana had not forgotten the Corn Laws; she had forgotten who had said that the products of the colonies were to supplement those of the mother country, not to compete with them.

If that line is drawn, 90% of the land in Louisiana is actually not for sale, but the entire Mississippi River and New Orleans are included, allowing for the freedom of navigation that Americans want.

As long as you cross the Appalachian Mountains, you will find the Great Plains that are more suitable for growing food. But she didn't expect it to be related to Spain. She "thought" Florida had already been annexed.

There are many magical landscapes at 31 degrees north latitude, such as the Sphinx, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Egyptian Pyramids, Mount Everest and the Bermuda Islands. There is the Bahamas Islands off Florida, which together with Florida form the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. .

Mexico is still under the control of the Spanish, who graze cattle on the dry plains. Texas is not independent yet, but the "cowboys" already are.

There is also some land in the coastal areas of Mexico suitable for growing Sea Island cotton, but compared to the land in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida's "harvest" is significantly larger.

If the Mississippi River had been a "natural boundary," 97 degrees west longitude would have needed to be measured. After Britain and France won the war for India in 1763, George III immediately issued a royal proclamation and obtained land belonging to France in North America. At the same time, North American residents were not allowed to survey land, and colonial governments were prohibited from issuing survey certificates or certificates of registration for any area other than the headwaters of the rivers that flowed from the northwest into the Atlantic. All these areas, unless purchased by the local colonial governor or commander-in-chief in the name of the king at a public meeting, were to be reserved for the use of the Indians.

This line did not make much sense under the circumstances. It did not slow down the movement westward.

Compared to the British, the French valued the fur trade more, and they did not want to settle permanently in this wild land. On the contrary, the British immigrants "valued the land" very much.

First, the forest was cut down for development, and then crops such as tobacco were planted, which required a lot of fertilizer. After the fertility of the land was exhausted, new land was found because it was too easy to obtain land.

Due to the demand for warship wood, the British Parliament enacted a law allowing New England residents to plant trees that could be used for shipbuilding, which also indirectly led to the United States having shipbuilding technology.

1660 was a turning point not only for the British, but also for the United States. In 1651, Cromwell promulgated the Navigation Act. All goods shipped from Europe to Britain must be shipped by British ships or ships from the country where the goods were produced. Transportation: Goods shipped from Asia, Africa, and America to the United Kingdom must be transported by British ships.

At that time, the Netherlands was still a "sea coachman". This bill triggered the Anglo-Dutch War, and the Netherlands had to recognize this bill after its defeat.

Charles II returned in 1660, but instead of revoking the Navigation Act, it was "enumerated".

Quiner said that the Navigation Act was by no means as beneficial to Britain as the British thought, and he opposed the French imitating British industrial policy.

All in all, there is a reason why the king died early, and his spouse will not worry about it. However, Josephine almost collapsed some time ago. She has to meet many people every day. She appeared in St. Cloud, the palace There are so many people here who are not here for no reason.

Napoleon also ignored her. It was not until the Louisiana Purchase that he remembered to read "The Washington Way of Life", and then Josephine's life became easier.

Georgiana had to die to live the kind of social life that Josephine had. Her performance in Belgium last time was simply terrible. Living in the botanical garden, she felt completely comfortable and did not feel marginalized at all.

But today she mainly came to the Louvre. In addition to his regular job as a law professor, Julian Ouvral also has a part-time job. In French commercial law, he has the position of "judicial administrator".

Those who engage in this profession are neither civil servants nor national civil servants, but independent "freelance professions" that need to be registered with the Commercial Court and are judicial assistants who assist leaders.

Bonaparte did not run a company, and Georgiana was not his employee. Why should he ask the judicial assistant to declare an "injunction" for him and prevent her from leaving the botanical garden?

A judicial assistant emerges when there is serious discord between shareholders, and he has certain agent functions.

Denon was a diplomat before becoming curator, but he began his retirement a year before the outbreak of the Revolution. He left Paris and went to Lombardy, Turin and Parma, and settled in Venice.

Shortly after the king was executed, he received an expulsion order from Venice, so that he had to leave Venice. He later went to Padua, Bologna, and Florence, but the British forced the Grand Duke of Tuscany to expel all French people.

While he was wandering around Italy, he received news from a good friend that his property in France had been confiscated, forcing him to return to Paris.

Denon was an excellent printmaker, and he was certainly not a nuisance. After agreeing to make prints for the Committee of Public Safety, the confiscated property was recovered, but the property was seized and he stayed in a friend's house.

Hubert Robert was the head of the painting department. He was also a British artist who came to France to make a living. Robert Barker, who did not paint the panorama, was just lucky. He was imprisoned in the same year that the king was executed.

After being released, he was only a minister in name only. Denon was able to get the opportunity to make prints for the Committee of Public Safety because of David. He and David met in Naples. As the curator, Denon and David were on the left and right. He had to follow Georgiana, and Robert followed like a shadow without saying a word.

The National Assembly at that time seemed to have strong ambitions, and the prints produced were huge, sometimes with 300 or even 600 figures appearing.

But none of the paintings were completed, and from 1801 David gave up those projects permanently. There are many reasons, and finance is the main reason. It costs 72,000 pounds to produce such a giant print, but in fact, less than 7,000 pounds were raised.

Georgiana visited the unfinished print, and the figures on it were dressed in a variety of ways.

In fact, if you recall carefully, the artist who painted The Raft of Medusa should be called Chirico, and Delacroix painted "Liberty Leading the People".

He also has another work, "The Death of Sadanapala". The Assyrian king was trapped in Nineveh after the failed attack on Babylon. In order to prevent the palace from falling into the hands of the enemy, he ordered the palace to be burned down and executed himself before that. wives and horses.

The painting was full of red and black. While everyone around him was struggling in fear of death, the king wearing gold jewelry watched everything happen in front of his eyes with an expressionless face.

"Madam." Just as Georgiana was looking at a painting in a daze, David suddenly said, "There is a painting I want you to see."

"Okay." She said happily, and she and David walked to a nearby exhibition hall.

Here are all the exercises of his students, and then he took her to a painting.

It is not the neoclassicism that David is good at, but something similar to Rubens and Titian who express emotions with passionate colors.

This painting shows Napoleon holding a battle flag, wearing a black coat, red collar and gold buttons.

"How was it?" David asked.

"Isn't it too beautifying?" Georgiana looked at Bonaparte in the painting. He looked an inch taller.

"I asked you how it felt." David asked.

A little distorted, but very expressive, especially the overall enthusiasm of the picture.

"Not bad...but it doesn't seem to be your style." Georgiana looked at David.

"I've been worrying about color lately, so you asked me to help you adjust the color." David said politely, "Then I thought of this guy."

"What's his name?" asked Georgiana.

"Antoine Jean Gros, I would like to ask you to take him with you to Italy this time." David said, "He seems to be too entangled in whether to stay in my studio or create his own style."

That's of course. Unknown painters don't even have enough to eat, so why bother talking about style?

"Okay." Georgiana said smoothly.

"Can I draw a picture of you?" David asked.

"I think I told you that I have my own painter." Georgiana replied.

"The First Consul, right? Because of a poem by Shakespeare," David said.

She was a little surprised.

"Don't get me wrong, I asked him more than 100 times before he told me. No one knows except me." David said, "But that is a poet and poetry, not a real painting."

"Okay." Georgiana said helplessly, "If it's Madame Récamier..."

"It's 'The Robbed Sabine Women.'" David interrupted Georgiana, "I'd like to ask you to be a model."

She felt offended.

"You can consider it, I'll wait for your reply." David said with a smile, and then left the exhibition hall with her.