Lasalle - images from Polona PNL

 Salvete Omnes,

keeping up with the Lasalle theme and his death anniversary at Wagram 1809, more images from  Polish National Library - Polona

Lasalle in his famous pantalons - later called the pantalons a la Lasalle

per books about Lasalle, I know no books in English, and one interesting article from Campaigns Magazine, n. 14, (January-February 1978, J. Krajewski publisher, in  Los Angeles, California) written by David Johnson and titled The Life and Death of Charles Lasalle.

Two French biographies of Lasalle- 
1. Marcel Dupont (he was a cavalry officer during the World War I), Le Général Lasalle, Éditions Berger-Levrault (1929), - translated into Polish in 1931 by Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski

2.François Guy Hourtoulle, Le Général Comte Charles Lasalle, 1775–1809, (1979) - with plates by Jack Girbal. 

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General Lasalle

 Salvete Omnes,

    on this day today but in AD 1809 at the battle of Wagram the French and especially their cavalry lost one of their most talented and dashing commanders and horsemen, Antoine Charles Louise de Lasalle - warrior and bagatyr of the old steppe legends.

 General Lasalle (10th May 1775- 6th July1809) was supposed to say that no French hussar ought to live past his 30th birthday. He himself being a general was 34y.o.a. when he died at Wagram. 

 - pacem aeternam ...

 

 

Have you read Arthur Conan Doyle's Napoleonic novel about brigadier Gerard and his adventures? 

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Charging - Napoleonic cavalry in painting

 
Salvete Omnes,
a short summer entry - just some fantastic XIX century equestrian military art


Napoleonic, Polish and French, cavalry in  paintings - mostly maestro Edouard Detaille, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Jan Chelminski:




 




 


 Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier:

 
 
 
Jan Chelminski



 

 
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