Hill, Laban Carrick. A brush with Napoleon; an encounter with Jacques-Louis David.(Young adult review)(Book review)

Kliatt | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

HILL, Laban Carrick. A brush with Napoleon; an encounter with Jacques-Louis David. (Art Encounter.) Watson-Guptill. 161p. c2007. 0-8230-0417-1. $16.95. JS

Except for the most avid student of art history, this will be a hard sell. But it does have a good story around the art history. The main character is Jean, a poor soldier in Napoleon's army, an orphan. The story begins in a military campaign, with Jean injured in a battle in Austria and then taken back to Paris to recover. Attending him is the lovely, kind-hearted daughter of a physician; after he gets better, he ...

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