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January 3, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

Jacques Cartier, Verrazano and France in the New World

Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Auguste Lemoine 1895 after François Riss. Musée d'Histoire St Malo

Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Auguste Lemoine 1895 after François Riss. Musée d’Histoire St Malo

Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was the first French Explorer to explore the New World. He explored what is now Canada and set the stage for the great explorer and navigator Samuel de Champlain to begin colonization of Canada. Cartier was the first European to discover and create a map for the St. Lawrence River. In 1838, the painter François Riss received an order by the city of St Malo to produce a portrait of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557). It was reproduced in 1846 by the painter Louis-Félix Amiel in Quebec City. The original painting of the imagined Cartier by Riss was destroyed in a fire at the old town hall in 1944. This version is one of many replicas of the lost work. It was executed in 1895 by the librarian of the city of Saint-Malo, Auguste Lemoine (1850-1908) for the the city of Paramé and now hangs in the St Malo civic history museum. There are no known contemporary portraits of Cartier.

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Filed Under: Canada and Alaska, History, Maps Tagged With: Andrew Morris, Auguste Lemoine, Canada, Charlesbourg-Royal, Chief Donnacona, Corte Reale, Dieppe, Dieppe School of Cartography, Dom Agaya, France, François Riss, Giovanni da Verrazano, Girolamo da Verrazzano, Grande Hermine, Hochelaga, Iroquois, Jacques Cartier, King François I, Lachine Rapids, Maps, Montreal, Mount Réal, Northwest Passage, Norumbega, Outer Banks of North Carolina, Pamlico Sound, Quebec, Rivière de Cap-Rouge, Saguenay, Saint Malo, St. Lawrence River, Stadacona, Théodore Gudin, Vesconte de Maiollo

July 28, 2012 by Max Distro LLC

French Maritime Museum, Paris

Napoleon III Visit to Genes, Maritime Museum Paris

Napoleon III Visit to Genes, Maritime Museum Paris

If you are visiting the Eiffel tower and looking for something else to do, you might consider the French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, the largest in the world. Apart from Napoleon’s canot, seen below, another striking feature in the first room at the Paris Musée de la Marine is the painting of the arrival of Napoleon III at Gênes in 1859, by Théodore Gudin seen above.

Napoleon I Canot, French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, Paris

Napoleon I Canot, French Maritime Museum at the Trocadero, Paris

In 1748, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau offered a collection of models of ships and naval installations to Louis XV of France, with the request that the items be displayed at the Louvre and made available to students of the Naval engineers school, which Duhamel headed. The collection was put on display in 1752, in a room of the first floor, next to the Academy of Sciences; the room was called “Salle de Marine” (Navy room), and was used for teaching. King Charles X decided to create the maritime museum in 1827, which he named the Musée Dauphin but after 1830 the name was changed to what we know it as today, the Musée de Marine.

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Filed Under: France, History, Museums, Painting, Paris, Sculpture Tagged With: Cannon, Chevalier de Tourville, French Maritime Museum, Henry IV, Henry V, Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, Jean-François Hue, Kurt Buzard MD, Le Louis Quinze, Louis XIV, Louis-Philippe Crépin, Model Ships, Musee de la Marine, Museums, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Painting, Paul Emmanuel Gallard-Lepinay, Sculpture, Théodore Gudin, Valmy, Venguer

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