01 Work, The Art of War, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson's The Cairo Revolt, with footnotes

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1774_1860)

The Cairo Revolt, 21 Oct 1798

Oil on canvas

 H = 3,65 m, L = 5 m

Château de Versailles

The Cairo Revolt is an episode of the Egyptian campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte . It pits the French against the Egyptians. The revolt takes place on October 21, 1798.

This city was taken by the French on 5 Thermidor year VI , and Bonaparte established the seat of the republican government there during the Egyptian campaign . Bonaparte organized the country and created a council made up of ulemas and notables who attempted to better distribute property taxes by requiring property titles. These provisions, so foreign to custom, provoke the October 21, 1798 popular uprising of the city's inhabitants, under the pretext that they are being taxed too much.

Having lost 800 soldiers, including General Dupuy as well as his favorite aide-de-camp , the Pole Joseph Sulkowski , Bonaparte responded the next day with ferocity. The insurgents were literally crushed and defeated after losing 5 to 6,000 men. More on The Cairo Revolt

Anne-Louis Girodet (born January 29, 1767, Montargis, France—died December 9, 1824, Paris) painter whose works exemplify the first phase of Romanticism in French art.

Girodet began to study drawing in 1773. He later became a student of the Neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée, with whose encouragement he joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David in late 1783 or early 1784. Girodet won the Prix de Rome (1789) for his Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, which shows the influence of David’s Neoclassicism. In The Sleep of Endymion (1792) Girodet displays a new emotional element akin to the troubled Romanticism of the novelist Chateaubriand. Girodet gave his literary interests full reign in the composition of Ossian and the French Generals (1801), painted for Napoleon’s residence, Malmaison. This unusual work melds images inspired by James Macpherson’s Ossianic works with images of the spirits of the generals who died during the French Revolution of 1789. Girodet continued to paint literary subjects in such works as The Entombment of Atala (1808). The latter picture, together with a windswept portrait of Chateaubriand meditating before the Roman Colosseum (1809), is most typical of his work. More on Anne-Louis Girodet 

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