André-Jacques Garnerin
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André-Jacques Garnerin was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.
Monsieur and Madame Garnerin (Christoph Haller von Hallerstein, c. 1803)
Citoyenne Henri accompanies Garnerin on a highly publicised and controversial flight on 8 July 1798
Schematic depiction of Garnerin's first parachute used in the Parc Monceau descent of 22 October 1797. Illustration dates from the early nineteenth century.
Treaty of Amiens
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The Treaty of Amiens temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition. It marked the end of the French Revolutionary Wars; after a short peace it set the stage for the Napoleonic Wars. Britain gave up most of its recent conquests; France was to evacuate Naples and Egypt. Britain retained Ceylon and Trinidad.
The Peace of Amiens by Jules-Claude Ziegler, 1853
Britain's foreign secretary Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 1796 portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Charles Cornwallis, portraited by John Singleton Copley c. 1795
Joseph Bonaparte, portraited by Luigi Toro