This horse skeleton hanging above Napoleon’s tomb at Les Invalides is a work of art by the artist Pascal Convert. It is a tribute to Napoleon’s favourite horse, Marengo, created for Napoleon’s bicentenary in 2021. The original Marengo skeleton is kept in the National Army Museum in London. Captured in Egypt in 1799, Marengo was named after the First Consul Napoleon’s first major victory in 1800. The light grey Arabian thoroughbred accompanied the Emperor on all the battlefields, from Austerlitz to Jena, then to Wagram. Captured by the English at Waterloo, he died in England in 1831, ten years after his master.