The Vendôme Column
- Reveals the restoration of the Vend me Column on the bicentenary of Napoleon's death
- Illustrated with photography that's never been seen before
In 2015, the Vend me column regained its initial splendor thanks to a long restoration campaign supported by the Vend me 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 Arm e during the Austerlitz campaign.
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