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| Tango01 | 20 Jan 2018 12:47 p.m. PST |
…. loaned in exchange for Bayeux Tapestry. "The loan of one memento of military victory surely deserves a similar gesture in return. The skeleton of Napoleon's horse, Marengo, is among the frontrunners to make the journey across the Channel in return for France lending Britain the Bayeux Tapestry. The decision to grant the first loan of the tapestry outside France for 950 years, revealed in yesterday's Times, has prompted a debate on what objects could be sent in the opposite direction…."
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 Mserafin  | 20 Jan 2018 2:37 p.m. PST |
Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Museums lend each other stuff all the time. |
| Dave Jackson | 20 Jan 2018 2:39 p.m. PST |
Exactly….surprised they didn't also ask for Copenhagen…. |
 deadhead | 20 Jan 2018 2:41 p.m. PST |
Oh that is good DJ, like it. The Marengo thing is a total myth, I thought. Long and convincingly disproven surely. A composite character of several of Napoleon's horses. There is one in La Musee de l'Armee already with a much better provenance. |
| Sobieski | 20 Jan 2018 6:03 p.m. PST |
When has the fact that something is a total rehash deterred certain members from spamming everything else off the boards? |
| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2018 3:11 p.m. PST |
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| 4th Cuirassier | 22 Jan 2018 7:20 a.m. PST |
We should lend them a few Napoleonic eagles to look at. Our military museums have several. |
| GarryWills | 22 Jan 2018 9:48 a.m. PST |
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| Robert le Diable | 23 Jan 2018 10:57 a.m. PST |
I think the (stuffed) grey one in the Musee de l'Armee is "Vizier"; at any rate, the branded "N" on the left side of the creature's rump is very visible, and can just be replicated in 15mm…… |
| Nine pound round | 23 Jan 2018 7:14 p.m. PST |
Yes, it's really too bad that fire in Les Invalides destroyed the flags from Colborne's brigade- they would look so nice next to those Eagles. |
| Tango01 | 23 Jan 2018 9:30 p.m. PST |
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