The bones of Napoleon's favorite horse are kept at the National Army Museum in London. The institution, arguing of their fragility, refused to lend them to the Invalides. The plastic artist Pascal Convert made a replica from a 3D scan. On the basis of this catch of war which has become an attraction for some, a relic for others, the piece in composite materials, baptized by its author
Memento Marengo
, is part of the bicentenary of the death of Corsica. Since its commission in 2019, it has been designed as the culmination of a temporary tour of contemporary works, the first ever to be organized in the rooms of the Army Museum. But also inside the dome and the cathedral for which the institution is responsible.
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And it was the installation of this work right above the Emperor's tomb that crystallized the many criticisms heard these days.
Sacrilege?
Desecration?
In a letter dated April 26, the deputy for Seine-et-Marne Jean-Louis
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