In 2015, the Vendome column regained its initial splendour thanks to a long restoration campaign supported by the Vendome 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 Armee during the Austerlitz campaign. AUTHOR: . Reveals the restoration of the Vendome Column on the bicentenary of Napoleon's death . Illustrated with photography that's never been seen before
Preface JEAN TULARD UN MONUMENT COMMEMORATIF HORS_DU_COMMUN Naissance d'une colonne JEAN_PAUL NERRIERE L'architecture de la colonne LAURENT BARIDON Du dessin aux bas-reliefs, une etonnante armee de_sculpteurs CLAIRE MAINGON La colonne Trajane, modele de la colonne Vendome_? CLAIRE MAINGON Empereur romain ou petit caporal, les statues sommitales JEAN_PAUL NERRIERE Demolition et reconstruction JEAN_PAUL NERRIERE La restauration de la colonne, CHRISTOPHE BOTTINEAU Une colonne a la une, caricatures et polemiques HUBERT CAVANIOL LE PEUPLE DE LA GRANDE ARMEE ANTOINE DE MEAUX LA GRANDE ARMEE DE NAPOLEON JEAN_PAUL NERRIERE La colonne de la Grande Armee 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
