A Perilous Passage mb-artistname Pierre Mignard 'A Plaister for Pam

'A Plaister for Pam

Millbank Prison opened in 1821

North west view of St Paul

A woman fills a water-jug from the River Nile

August 1st

A Perilous Passage mb-artistname Pierre Mignard 'A Plaister for Pam'A Perilous Passage', 1869. Napoleon III of France was struggling against a wave of unpopularity at the time. He had introduced a number of measures to try and calm the situation. He was, by now, a very ill man and so his primary concern was to preserve his office for his young son. Here, Napoleon cycles on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls. This refers to JF Professor Jenkins crossing of the Niagara Gorge on 5th August 1869 on a tightrope located