See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS See also:

• TOUSSAINT

TOUSSAINT See also:

• NICOLAS TOUSSAINT CHARLET (1792-1845)

CHARLET (1792-1845)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French de-signer and painter, more especially of military subjects, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 20th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1792 . He was the son of a See also:

• DRAGOON (Fr. dragon, Ger. Dragoner)

dragoon in the Republican See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, whose See also:

• DEATH

death in the ranks See also:

• LEFT

left the widow and See also:

• ORPHAN

orphan in very poor circumstances . Madame See also:

• CHARLET, NICOLAS TOUSSAINT (1792-1845)

Charlet, however, a woman of determined spirit and an extreme Napoleonist, managed to give her boy a moderate See also:

• EDUCATION

education at the Lycee See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon, and was repaid by his lifelong See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection . His first employment was in a Parisian mairie, where he had to See also:

• REGISTER

register recruits: he served in the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Guard in 1814, fought bravely at the Barriere de See also:

• CLICHY

Clichy, and, being thus unacceptable to the See also:

• BOURBON
• BOURBON, CHARLES, DUKE OF (149o-1527)

Bourbon party, was dismissed from the mairie in 1816 . He then, having from a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age had a propensity for See also:

• DRAWING

drawing, entered the atelier of the distinguished painter See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron See also:

• GROS, ANTOINE JEAN, BARON (1771–1835)

Gros, and soon began issuing the first of those lithographed designs which eventually brought him renown . His " See also:

• GRENADIER

Grenadier de See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo," 1817, with the See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto " La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas " (a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet), was particularly popular . It was only towards 1822, however, that he began to be successful in a professional sense . Lithographs (about 2000 altogether), See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours, See also:

• SEPIA (Gr. a iria, cuttlefish)

sepia-drawings, numerous oil sketches, and a few etchings followed one another rapidly; there were also three exhibited oil pictures, the first of which was especially admired—" See also:

• EPISODE

Episode in the See also:

• CAMPAIGN

Campaign of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia " (1836), the " Passage of the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine by See also:

• MOREAU, GUSTAVE (1826-1898)
• MOREAU, HEGESIPPE (18ro-1838)
• MOREAU, JEAN VICTOR MARIE (1763-1813)

Moreau " (1837), " Wounded Soldiers Halting in a See also:

• RAVINE

Ravine " (1843) . Besides the military subjects in which he peculiarly delighted, and which found an energetic response in the popular See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart, and kept alive a feeling of regret for the See also:

• RECENT

recent past of the French nation and discontent with the See also:

• PRESENT

present,—a feeling which increased upon the artist himself towards the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of his career,—Charlet designed many subjects of See also:

• TOWN

town See also:

• LIFE

life and See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant life, the ways of See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, &c., with much wit and whim in the descriptive mottoes . One of the most famous sets is the " See also:

• VIE

Vie civile, politique, et militaire du Caporal Valentin," 50 lithographs, dating from 1838 to 1842 . In 1838 his See also:

• HEALTH

health began to fail owing to an affection of the See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest . He died in Paris on the 3oth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1845 .

Charlet was an uncommonly tall See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, with an expressive See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face, bantering and See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good natured; his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character corresponded, full of boyish fun and high See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits, with manly See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence, and a vein of religious feeling, and he was a hearty favourite among his intimates, one of whom was the painter See also:

• GERICAULT, JEAN LOUIS ANDRE THEODORE (1791-1824)

Gericault . Charlet married in 1824, and two sons survived him . A life of Charlet was published in 1856 by a military friend, De la See also:

• COMBE, ANDREW (1797-1847)
• COMBE, GEORGE (1788-1858)
• COMBE, or COOMB
• COMBE, WILLIAM (1741–1823)

Combe . (W . M .