2013/10/17

Guillotine Musée Bowers

http://www.bowers.org

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2013/07/01

Pierre Barthélémy SAMSON (b.1777 Saint-Malo -d.1828 Nantes)

Pierre Barthélémy SAMSON (b.1777 Saint-Malo -d.1828 Nantes) was a French Napoleonic POW from 1803 to 1816 (?). He possibly was imprisoned on one or more of the English "prison ships" or in Norman Cross. His nickname was the toymaker, in fact he was marine carpenteur in Saint Malo.

2013/03/28

Rare treasures on a visit to Chatham's historic dockyards. BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016np31

Antiques Roadshow Series 35, Chatham Historic Dockyard 2

16/25 The team discover rare treasures on a visit to Chatham's historic dockyards.

Étonnante histoire d'une spinning jenny fabriquée par les prisonniers des camps ou pontons anglais, pendant les guerres napoléoniennes.

BBC video

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2013/02/06

Les amis de Norman Cross...

https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofnormancross/

The Friends exists to promote interest in all things connected to the history of Norman Cross and its setting, in particular the Napoleonic Prisoner of War depot that existed on this site from 1797 to 1814.

https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofnormancross/

Lynn Museumby Paul Biggins

from : https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofnormancross/a-detailed-history/6-life-in-the-depot

One of the soldiers stationed at the depot in 1799 later wrote an account of his garrison duty there. He recalled that in Autumn of that year his regiment proceeded:
"....to Norman Cross for the purpose of guarding some thousands of unhappy Frenchmen, cooped up in that place and clothed in yellow (the prison dress), to expiate their revolutionary sins by many years captivity and exile in loathsome prison, cut off from family and friends.
Their necessities forced them to exert their ingenuity in making various curious toys which the disposed of at a very low rate to enable them to procure a few comforts to alleviate their extreme wretchedness.....for want of clothes many of them suffered every privation rather than be clad in a conspicuous and humiliating colour."

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2013/01/28

Peter Finer ... Spinning Jenny

Peter Finer, 38-39 Duke Street, St James's, London, SW1Y 6DF Size: H 22 x Diam 21 cm / 8.7 x 8.3 inches

http://www.peterfiner.com/current-stock/item/1504/

artiste et date inconnus

2013/01/21

Camp de prisonniers français à Norman Cross A Z video

Quelques images de travaux des prisonniers français lors des guerres napoléoniennes, à la fin du reportage.
At the end of this video, some pictures of Napoleonic POW artworks.