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Summary

Français : Ils viennent se bruler à la Chandelle (

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Artist

English: Elie

Title

Français : Ils viennent se bruler à la Chandelle

Description

English:

This drawing satirizes the heated debates in the Chamber of Deputies after Napoleon's return from the defeat at Waterloo. Napoleon is shown on the Mont Saint-Jean, surrounded by skulls and bones testifying to battles he has led (and lost). But he continues to brandish the torch of war, while holding a scroll in his left hand that lists the promises he made to the Chamber of Representatives on his return from Elba; taken together, they show the juxtaposition between Napoleon’s republican views as first consul and his despotic use of power as emperor. Napoleon’s supporters (his generals and politicians, shown here as bats) are attracted by the light, but burn their wings on the flame and fall into the void. The politicians, all members of the Chamber, lament “we will die on our chairs.” Queen Hortense of the Netherlands, labeled a "yenne" (hyena), is shown with sagging breasts and tries to flirt with Napoleon, alluding to the widely-circulated slanderous rumors that there was a sexual relationship between the two (Hortense was his grown step-daughter). Hortense was active in the attempt to have Napoleon's son proclaimed emperor. The inscriptions Espagne (Spain), Moscou (Moscow), Egypt are there to remind the public where Napoleon learned that his power had limits.

Reference Source: Clerc #101, George #12569.

Geographic coverage: France
Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Date

1815

Medium

English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 35 x 27 cm. on sheet 37 x 29 cm.

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

University of Washington: Special Collections

Accession number

108

Place of creation

Paris

Inscriptions

Caption on image:

Ils viennent se bruler à la Chandelle (They're coming to burn themselves at the candle)
Déposés à la Direction Générale (Registered by the French censor)

Signage:
[Below drawing on left] Chambre basse (lower chamber [of deputies])
[At top of rocks] Chambre haute (Upper chamber)
[Bats (clockwise starting at 12:00)]: Garat
Çavarie
Yenne hortence (Queen Hortense)
Sibué
Mouton Duvernes
Feix Lepelletier (Felix Lepelletier, Baron and Prefect of Tarn and Garonne)
Sborie (or Borie) de St. Vincent
Cambon
Lafayette
Thibaudeau
Regnault (or Negnault or Nognault)
Merlin de Douay
La bëdoyer (or bëdoyev)
Dumolar
Manual
Mont St. Jean (N is standing on it)
Moskow (burning onion domes in foreground)
Espagne and Egypte (buried monuments)
Leipsic (bridge fragment)
[Under the collection of bats] Nous mourons sur nos Chaises (We die on our chairs)

[Scroll] : Discour aux deux Chambres (Speech to the two chambers)
….Indépendence
Liberalité (generous gift)

Liberté (liberty)

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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Publishing Notes

Published June 1815 (Broadley). Dépot légal August 1, 1815.

Also found in the De Vinck collection (#9577) and the Collection de l’histoire de France, Qb1, June 21, 1815.

Digital ID Number

NAP62

UW Reference Number

F30

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