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Curlyshirley | 09:07 Wed 16th Sep 2020 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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During the Napoleonic Wars with France, records show that captured French ships were allowed to continue if carrying consignments of which flowers?
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Roses for Empress Josephine. '...Pierre-Joseph Redouté was commissioned by her to paint the flowers from her gardens. Les Roses was published 1817–20 with 168 plates of roses; 75–80 of the roses grew at Malmaison. The English nurseryman Kennedy was a major supplier, despite England and France being at war, his shipments were allowed to cross...
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Roses for Empress Josephine.

'...Pierre-Joseph Redouté was commissioned by her to paint the flowers from her gardens. Les Roses was published 1817–20 with 168 plates of roses; 75–80 of the roses grew at Malmaison. The English nurseryman Kennedy was a major supplier, despite England and France being at war, his shipments were allowed to cross blockades...'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Jos%C3%A9phine#Patroness_of_roses
12:45 Wed 16th Sep 2020
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oh well done ,i have read pages about the napoleonic war to find an answer x
12:47 Wed 16th Sep 2020
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Brilliant. Thank you.
12:55 Wed 16th Sep 2020

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