IMPERIAL VANITY AND AESTHETIC OF ARTIFICE: NAPOLEONIC PARTIES IN THE INVADED SEVILLE

Abstract

Each was to be held August 15 in all territories belonging to the French Empire, onomastics and the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the case of the invaded Seville, the Napoleonic party reached three editions: 1810, 1811 and 1812. Thanks to information provided by two unpublished documents related to the end of this article can be systematized study and extend knowledge of the city festival with which the French leaders, through solemn religious ceremonies, development charity, runs bulls, street lighting and architectural perspectives, and by fireworks, sports competitions, banquets and private dances, they wanted an end propaganda endorsing indigenous aesthetic values to satisfy his imperial vanity.