Oath to the westphalian flag, westphalia was certainly a constitutional monarchy, but most of the power remained in the hands of the king. As the kingdom was part of the confederation of the rhine, its army was mainly intended to reinforce the grande armée commanded by napoleon. The kingdom therefore constituted a satellite state of the french empire and collapsed upon the defeat of napoleon at leipzig in 1813. The statue of bosio never reached kassel, having not been able to be sent to westphalia before the fall of the kingdom. It was perhaps intended to adorn the states hall in kassel, the first german parliamentary hemicycle, built by the french architect grandjean de montigny in the museum fridericianum. As for the painting, it remained unfinished: thanks to jérôme, dupré spent a stay in rome at the beginning of 1812 to complete his apprenticeship and never returned to westphalia. - see more at: http://www. Histoire-image. Org/site/etude_comp/etude_comp_detail. Php?i=920&oe_zoom=1643&id_sel=1643#sthash. Uaj86bns. Dpuf. Date: 1813.
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