Paris trivia continues: Battle of Marengo, street in its honor

The 14th of June is also the anniversary of Napoleon's victory at Friedland. It was the victory at Friedland in East Prussia that finally convinced the Russians to make peace with Napoleon at Tilsit, thus ending the War of the 4th Coalition, which had begun when Prussia declared war on Napoleon in Oct 1806....very bad move.

There is no site in Paris named after this French victory in 1807, (not that I know of), unlike that of Solferino, the Alma, Jena, Wagram, Rivoli, and Marengo, and Campo Formio

Fred, Konigsberg and Danzig (Kaliningrad and Gdansk) keep climbing higher on my list of places to learn more about! It now seems strange to me that they aren't a bigger part of the usual grand tours of the continent...

Hi,

That also depends on the type of tours pertaining to Gdansk and Kaliningrad. The bus tours I have seen advertised for those destinations are German bus tours, where all the participants and tour itself are German, same as to the Masurien Lakes, etc.

I've yet to do that regarding Konigsberg, it's a possible option. For Gdansk I prefer going on my own anyway, seeing the city again and the villages on the lower Vistula.

Also when exploring East Prussia, make sure to make a stop at the grand ruins of Finckenstein Palace (currently in North Poland), home to Napoleon during his 1807 central European campaigns. Also the Treaty of Finckenstein between France and Persia was signed there too. I visited in 2016 and had the whole ruins to myself, not a single other tourist there.

Don’t forget Poulet Marengo.
https://www.google.com/search?q=poulet+marengo+recette+traditionnelle&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

Or
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018865-chicken-marengo

There is also "Veau Marengo"

Yes, Finckenstein Palace, where Napoleon met Maria Walewska there in 1807. He stayed there until the battle of Friedland.

@ Carlos...What is the nearest town to the Palace.? I would be thrilled to see that place.

@Fred, "Schloss Finckenstein" is located halfway between Gdansk and Olsztyn (Allenstein) in the Masurian Lakes District, northwest of the Grunwald Battlefield. There is a small village, Kamieniec, that sprouted up from the manor's estates. Interestingly, in the 1930s, Finckenstein was the filming location of a Oscar nominated Hollywood film Conquest, with Greata Garbo about Napoleon's relationship with Marie Walewska.

The Soviets torched the place on their '45 march to Berlin, now the grand old ruins sit empty and overgrown, lost to history, save for the occasional adventurous traveler or two...

Emma-"Bit of a faff" . . .that's a new one to me . . . just had to look it up. Hopefully it'll stick in this old data base of mine.

@ Carlos...Thanks. Great film. "Conquest" ... I first saw it when I was 9 years old, know it well.

It looks as though the Poles did not restore and refurbish Schloss Finckenstein unlike other Schlösser/palaces they have restored in joint Polish-German restoration projects. They go by their current Polish names as well as their former German names, eg, zamek Pszczyna/Schloß Pleß.

And don’t forget the Marengo cedar tree in the garden of Château de Malmaison in Reuil-Malmaison planted there to commemorate the battle.