Ernest Meissonier News Today

Napoleon I - Defeat, Exile, Abdication: In January 1814 France was being attacked on all its frontiers. The allies cleverly announced that they were fighting not against the French people but against Napoleon alone, since in November 1813 he had rejected the terms offered by the Austrian foreign minister Klemens, Fürst (prince) von Metternich, which would have preserved the natural frontiers of France. The extraordinary strategic feats achieved by the emperor during the first three months of 18...

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

The flower portraits I create using an unlikely device are rich in detail. And resonant with memories.

Vol. II of Peter Weiss’ novel and documentary history, The Aesthetics of Resistance, laments struggles lost as Nazism and WWII take hold.