Death of Labédoyère

This nineteenth-century illustration by Trichon, titled “Death of Labédoyère,” depicts the execution of General Charles de La Bédoyère in 1815 after the Second Restoration. The image shows the condemned man standing before a firing squad in a sober and tense scene dominated by the expectation of the gunfire. A supporter of Napoleon during the Hundred Days, La Bédoyère was condemned for treason after Waterloo. This engraving belongs to the historical iconography devoted to the political dramas of the end of the Empire and the violence of the royalist purge.