Alphonse de Neuville
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Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville was a French academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War, and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and by the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Neuville in a National Guard uniform in 1870–1871.
Les dernières cartouches (1873)
The Defence of Rorke's Drift, oil on canvas painting by Alphonse de Neuville, 1880, Art Gallery of New South Wales. This incident occurred on 22 January 1879, in the Anglo-Zulu War.
Saint-Omer
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Saint-Omer is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
The theater « le moulin à café » (the coffee grinder)
Cathedral
19th century Cavaillé-Coll organ in the cathedral
Main square and theater (the old town hall)