From our special correspondent,
Like a ballet to the glory of Napoleon and his soldiers.
The standard-bearers of the regiments of the Grande Armée replayed drum beating, Saturday in the park of Bois-Préau, in Rueil-Malmaison (92), the ceremony of the presentation of the eagles of December 5, 1804. Emblems of the new regime, these insignia were given to the troops after their oath to the Emperor, whose coronation had taken place three days earlier.
Carried by hardened grognards, at the tip of the standards, the raptors with outstretched wings bowed before the look-alikes of Napoleon, Josephine and the Marshals of the Empire.
The high point of a spectacular restitution featuring some 800 warriors swearing loyalty to the tricolor flag in a formidable clamor.
If it was difficult to reproduce the semi-fantasy tableau painted by David in 1810, with its forest of poles and its hussars stretched over the tips of their boots, this sequence from the 4th edition of the Imperial Jubilee will nonetheless remain as the first…
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