Description
- Abstract:
- A Russian soldier, miserable and covered in snow, presents himself to the Emperor Nicolas who is standing by a fireplace in a lavishly decorated room. They discuss the situation concerning the Siege of Sebastopol.
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Citation
Daumier, Honoré,
"D'où arrives-tu? dans un état pareil!...-Sire, de Sébastopol!...-Tu mens!..à Sébastapol, la neige ne tombe que sur les ennemis de la sainte Russie....grâce à la Panaggia, mes soldats jouissent à Sébastapol d'un printemps perpétuel...pour te punir d'avoir voulu tromper les habitans de St. Pétersbourg!...tu vas partir immédiatement pour la Sibéria!"
(1854).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86222/
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Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
...The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
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