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Pius VII travels to Notre-Dame to consecrate an emperor. Napoleon takes the crown from the altar, as agreed beforehand, and puts it on his own head. David's canvas hangs in the Louvre with the arm still raised.
Geometry, Pride: A reading: the seat crowns itself.
In plain words
Napoleon takes the crown from the altar at Notre-Dame, with the pope present, and crowns himself, as agreed beforehand: the seat authorising itself, the ceremony kept and the consecrating hand cut out.
The mechanism
THE SEAT AUTHORISES ITSELF — the ceremony is kept and the consecrating hand is cut out. No god hands this down, a plebiscite has already voted it up, and the witnesses cheer
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE SEAT MOVES TO THE BENCH 1713 to 1945
- Plate — Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-1807 · Musee du Louvre, Paris · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Coronation_of_Napoleon_(1805-1807).jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD + the painting
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