Within the framework of the "In situ" interventions the Fine arts Museum of La Rochelle, I realize "Notebook of travel", a series of watercolours which take as a starting point the the table of Paul Jamin entitled "the brenn and its spoils".

The brenn (or Brennus) is Gallic which conquered Rome into 390 before J-c. This series of watercolours tells this victory, with the manner of a chronicler of this time.

Here my "notebook of voyage"
in front of "the brenn and its spoils"
at the Fine arts Museum of La Rochelle.



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A little History:

Brennus, Head of Gallic Sénonais, invades Etrurie, year 390 before J-C, besieged Clussium. It crushed the Romans with the battle of Combined, from where the population was flees.

Its soldiers, after having cut the throat of eighty consular remained on their curule chairs in order to offer itself in holocaust to the hello of the fatherland, destroyed the city. They besieged Capitole, where the elite of youth patrician and the Senate had been strengthened.

The defenders of the fortress, besieged for seven months and delivered to all the horrors of the famine, have finally asked to capitulate. Brennus agree to raise the seat with the help of thousand gold books weighing. The marked day, the Sulpicius powerful orator brings the sum.

While gold is weighed, a dispute rises. The Romans reproach the winners for making use of false weight. At this point in time Brennus, throwing its heavy sword in the balance, pronounced the famous saying, become proverbial: "Vae victis!"

          ("Misfortune with overcome!")...