Mademoiselle Georges (Marguerite-Josephine Weimer)

1 portrait by Pierre Roch Vigneron

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Mademoiselle Georges (Marguerite-Josephine Weimer)

printed by Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, by Pierre Roch Vigneron
lithograph, circa 1813-1818
10 7/8 in. x 8 3/8 in. (277 mm x 212 mm) paper size
Given by Henry Witte Martin, 1861
Reference Collection
NPG D42331

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  • Cox, Paul, Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions, 2015 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 March - 7 June 2015), p. 43 Read entry

    Other liaisons included those in 1814, when Wellington was British ambassador in Paris, with the singer Giuseppina Grassini and the actress Marguerite Weimer, known as Mademoiselle Georges. Both of these had previously been mistresses of Napoleon, but Mlle Georges let it be known that the Duke was by far the more impressive lover.1

    1 Elizabeth Longford, Wellington: The Years of the Sword (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1969), p 375.

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Machine breaking Luddite Riots end with seventeen executions in York. Radical John Cartwright's subsequent tour of the manufacturing districts has some success in quelling Luddite discontent with the foundation of the Hampden reform club network across the country.
East India Company is deprived of monopoly over trade with India.

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Millenarian prophet Joanna Southcott, made famous by her visions of the second coming of Christ, announces herself 'with child' by the Holy Ghost.
Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.

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Victorious Battle of St Pierre near Bayonne led by General Rowland Hill.
Battle of Leipzig ends in defeat for Napoleon.
Wellington's victory at Vittoria leads to British invasion of Southern France.
Americans capture and burn Toronto, defeat British in Battle of Lake Erie and recapture Detroit.

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