The Little Waterloo: Discover all the secrets of the Battle of Waterloo with your family!

By Catherine de Duve

The Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo is coming up! Learn all there is to know about this famous battle with this must-have guide that both parents and children will love!
Waterloo, June 19, 1815 …
It has rained all night … What is Napoleon doing ? Who are the Allies ?
Meet Wellington and Blücher !
What will happen at Hougoumont, Haie Sainte and Papelotte farms ?
Imagine the cavalry charges, the blasts from the grand battery.
The village of Plancenoit is on fire ! Where is Marshal Grouchy ?
Who are forming "the last square" ?
Will Wellington defeat his old enemy ?

Relive in family Napoleon's last battle, hour by hour, with this interactive book to find out about history while having fun

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Put yourself in the shoes of an artist or an explorer and learn all there is to know about art and history!
Whether it is as a museum guide, a temporary exhibition catalog or a monograph, the books from the "Happy Museum" collection can be read while visiting a museum, an exhibition or simply at home.
The concept is entertaining and interactive so that children can learn while having fun! You will find throughout the pages some games, observations, thoughts, creations, drawings and art history notions. Thanks to these activities, children will be able to assimilate technical and theoretical notions like “still life”, “watercolors” and “impressionism”, which are sometimes abstract and difficult to understand.

From 4 years old and for the whole family (parents, grandparents and teachers).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catherine de Duve is an art historian and a painter. She worked for the Royal museums of Belgium’s educational services and created teaching workshops at the Brussels Foundation for Architecture.
In 2000, she launched her own publishing house with a brand new concept. Advised by the director of MAC (Grand Hornu), she created the international collection “Happy Museum”, dedicated to a young audience.
Catherine de Duve is also published by RMN, Hatier and Alice editions, and works with dozens of international museum curators.

Thanks to this ebook, the whole family will learn more about:
• The village of Waterloo
• Napoléon, Wellington, Ney and Blücher
• The phases of the battle
• The Lion of Waterloo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kate'Art Éditions
• Release date: Jun 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9782875750648

Book preview

WATERLOO – 1815

The little village of Waterloo

was linked to Brussels by a single paved road. Waterloo, around 20 km south of Brussels, and its surrounding region, was mainly agricultural. It was a rolling landscape, with many scattered villages, farms, fields, woods and windmills. Everything seemed calm there until the morning of June 18, 1815. Braine-l’Alleud, Genappe, Lasne and Waterloo would soon become no more than a battlefield.

Find the main farms: Hougoumont, Haie Sainte, Papelotte, … which would become strategic points during the battle.

Europe under Napoleon

Napoleon built up his empire at the cost of many wars. Almost all the other European countries formed a coalition to try and defeat him. From 1813, the French empire began to collapse. In 1814, Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba in Northern Italy. King Louis XVIII, in exile since 1792, became King of France, with the support of foreign armies.

THE BELGIAN CAMPAIGN

The European countries did not agree to Emperor Napoleon’s return to power in France. They formed a new armed coalition ready to intervene. Nearly a million men gathered on the French borders.

On June 12, 1815, around 130,000 French soldiers left for war,