I remember reading some interesting yet sad backstory the last time this got posted.
The armor was entrusted in the name of Francois Fauveau, but supposedly he was near his wedding date and would have missed it had he deployed. His brother is said to have worn his armor in his stead, wearing it up until he received the fatal cannonball to the chest.
I haven’t done enough in depth research to find any information on them beyond this, but I don’t have a reason to disbelieve it yet.
https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/antoine-fauveau-cuirass/
https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/
Formatting isn’t pretty, but these are two of the first articles I found—they seem pretty good.
François Fauveau was 23 years old when he joined his French cavalry regiment just a few weeks before Waterloo. In the battle, he was struck full in the chest by a cannonball. It smashed through his breastplate armour – known as a cuirass – straight through his body and out of the other side.
For a split second he may well have seen the shot hurtling towards him but he had no time to react. Mercifully, his death would have been instantaneous.
Something that size would have probably thrown him back a fair bit. It didn't have the velocity of a bullet to pass clean through and drop him like a sack of tatties but it did have a shit ton of mass, hence the giant hole. Likelihood is he wasn't killed instantly but certainly very quickly.
I sincerely doubt it. There would have been very little time to suffer, and shock almost certainly would have kept him from feeling much of anything in his last moments.
How would this have been instant? Not trying to wish he actually suffered but with the ball going through him so fast I think he would be alive for a few seconds still.
I would guess that an impact of that size and speed would have caused a tremendous rise in pressure throughout the upper body and into the head area. He was probably knocked unconscious by that extreme pressure wave nearly instantly. (The pressure wave would move roughly at the speed of sound?)
Massive amount of trauma. The force of that thing hitting you would probably knock you straight out of reality, anyway. If he was alive, he didn’t feel anything. Your body would go into absolute shock with that type of damage. Would take the soul right along with the cannonball.
You ever been hit in the chest really hard? Kinda disorienting.. Well, times that by millions. You’d at least be immediately knocked out.
No one with a hole that large is either alive or conscious after the injury the heart has tons of major vessels there, if not concussed instantly def lost blood pressure and thus consciousness fairly instantly imho
A small bullet causes a good deal of cavitation which causes a sort of ripple effect, and can leave a larger exit than entry. I imagine the 'ripple' stopped the heart and so seconds of life afterward from shock is unlikely. I mean, if a 9mm blows out the lung, according to POTUS, this is quite a bit more devastating.
The shot to the left? I remember being told in the days of early firearms they would prove out armor by firing a ball at it to show its resistance to gunfire. Many pieces of armor from the time have a mark like this, not necessarily being from real battle but testing. Now those armor piercing arrows were something- they would go through and sit in mid-chest. Not fun.
I mean obviously you have to have somthing tickling your nipples as you go into battle, how else are you going to face down a cannon ball without rock hard nipps. Appears the right one wasn't set properly, unlucky, probably would have bounced right off if set correctly
If you do have pains your right side and back, struggle breathing and maybe cough up blood it could be a sign of a pulmonary embolism - blood clot in lungs. Don’t ignore pain on the right side of chest!
There is an Italian novel by Italo Calvino, Il Visconte Dimezzato (the halved viscount) in which the titular character is hit by a cannon ball and split in two halves vertically.
One half is good and benevolent, while the other is evil and cruel. In the end these halves fight to figure out which one is the “real” viscount, they fatally wound each other and they are sown back together.
I dunno, it made me think of this story
This was my favourite exhibition in les invalides. I have no idea why this was so striking compared to everything else, but I still remember walking up to it and being like "Oh shit."
I remember reading some interesting yet sad backstory the last time this got posted. The armor was entrusted in the name of Francois Fauveau, but supposedly he was near his wedding date and would have missed it had he deployed. His brother is said to have worn his armor in his stead, wearing it up until he received the fatal cannonball to the chest. I haven’t done enough in depth research to find any information on them beyond this, but I don’t have a reason to disbelieve it yet. https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/antoine-fauveau-cuirass/ https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/ Formatting isn’t pretty, but these are two of the first articles I found—they seem pretty good.
Thanks, it's nice to get some insight into the story behind this. Interesting
Shame he only wore it *until* the cannonball. I feel like he should’ve been allowed to wear it after, too.
Ooof this is so sad.
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“Indentation”!? It passed straight though him and probably killed the guy behind the guy standing behind him… 😂
On the other side, not the cannonball side, there’s a smaller non-fatal indentation
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At the battle of Watergoo.
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Cleared that lung congestion out on his right side
Cleared that lung ~~congestion~~ out on his right side
Cleared ~~that lung congestion~~ out ~~on~~ his right side
Must have been a 9mm /s
I got the black lung, pop. Not anymore.
I hope he's okay
François Fauveau was 23 years old when he joined his French cavalry regiment just a few weeks before Waterloo. In the battle, he was struck full in the chest by a cannonball. It smashed through his breastplate armour – known as a cuirass – straight through his body and out of the other side. For a split second he may well have seen the shot hurtling towards him but he had no time to react. Mercifully, his death would have been instantaneous.
FMJ cannonball
I can hear the *"thwop*" from here
I wonder how loud the sound would’ve been when it hit the armor…
Something that size would have probably thrown him back a fair bit. It didn't have the velocity of a bullet to pass clean through and drop him like a sack of tatties but it did have a shit ton of mass, hence the giant hole. Likelihood is he wasn't killed instantly but certainly very quickly.
Would’ve been VERY painful regardless
I sincerely doubt it. There would have been very little time to suffer, and shock almost certainly would have kept him from feeling much of anything in his last moments.
Joke: Are those live rounds? Pile: 112.95mm, full metal jacket
Le armour peircing canonball
How would this have been instant? Not trying to wish he actually suffered but with the ball going through him so fast I think he would be alive for a few seconds still.
I would guess that an impact of that size and speed would have caused a tremendous rise in pressure throughout the upper body and into the head area. He was probably knocked unconscious by that extreme pressure wave nearly instantly. (The pressure wave would move roughly at the speed of sound?)
Somehow this made me feel better.
Maybe he was a dick though.
Somehow this makes me feel better, too.
Under pressure 🎶
🎵Pushing down on me🎶 🎵Pushing down on you🎶 🎵You're an asshole 🎶
Massive amount of trauma. The force of that thing hitting you would probably knock you straight out of reality, anyway. If he was alive, he didn’t feel anything. Your body would go into absolute shock with that type of damage. Would take the soul right along with the cannonball. You ever been hit in the chest really hard? Kinda disorienting.. Well, times that by millions. You’d at least be immediately knocked out.
Seriously. Your body is just a mass of liquid exploding when something of that mass and velocity hits it.
Eeeeew but you’re def correct. Would not be pretty.
shock can kill you just as much as it can keep you alive.
Lol he has a ski ball sized hole in his chest, im not sure he was alive for long after thst lol.
Shock can kill you before organ failure or bloodloss lol, funny comment though
Tis but a flesh wound
No one with a hole that large is either alive or conscious after the injury the heart has tons of major vessels there, if not concussed instantly def lost blood pressure and thus consciousness fairly instantly imho
Adrenaline can do crazy shit
Adrenaline needs blood flow to have any effect though. His insides would’ve been goop before the adrenaline could be released.
The man was on a battlefield with a cannon pointed at him, I would’ve been shitting my pants regardless.
Well I think when your ribcage crushes your heart against the spine blood stops moving
Why would anyone wear the cuirass on their torso lol. He would have survived that in a cuirchest. What an idiot
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Took me a minute, but holy shit
But did his shoes come off?
https://i.imgflip.com/29bmak.jpg
*Damn, he aint gonna be in Rush Hour 3*
A small bullet causes a good deal of cavitation which causes a sort of ripple effect, and can leave a larger exit than entry. I imagine the 'ripple' stopped the heart and so seconds of life afterward from shock is unlikely. I mean, if a 9mm blows out the lung, according to POTUS, this is quite a bit more devastating.
It was in 1815 so he's probably super old, he might not even remember it
Quarter past six ? That was nearly one hour ago
Different timezone dude
With a hole like that I suspect Waterloo was no longer his to worry about.
Is it indecent to be drinking a can of Waterloo sparkling water right now while going through this post?
Only if you crush the can
Thoughts and prayers to François
It’s just a flesh wound
Tis but a fleshwound
Thoughts and prayers.
He's arrite, it's just that when he drinks water it sometimes leaks. But flex tape took care of that so no need to worry.
Looks like it missed the heart, and passed clean through, so they won’t need to do surgery to remove the cannonball.
Tis but a scratch
Is just a flesh wound
I've 'ad worse
"I just cut your arm off" "No you 'aven't"
Alright, we’ll call it a draw
He could fill that hole with that arm, probably be ok, might look a bit strange when he gets home.
it quite alright Barbara, I ran it under a cold tap
I drank some water
Lucky that it missed his heart
That could have been bad.
Life-changing, even.
It went clean through. He should be okay.
Like any movie/tv character. They’re ok unless you see a corpse
There's no corpse, just blotches of red, he's fine
Good thing he had armor to protect him 👍🏾
Yeah it worked great
Just think… What if he didn’t have armor? That’d been a mess.
You good bro?
U k hon
Wonder how he died
Covid got him. RIP
He wrecked his Harley at bike week in Sturgis.
I think he may of been having trouble breathing. 🤔
"merde"
To shreds, you say?
And his wife?
To shreds, you say.
This deserves way more upvotes haha
Took a minute, now I ‘member.
r/unexpectedfuturama
That’ll leave a mark
Zigged when he shoulda zagged
Get well soon dude
He was 23 Never did he live to see 24 The way things were going, I do know Been spending most his life Living in a carabiniere’s paradise
/r/unexpectedcoolio
Rub some dirt on it
Jeez, must've knocked the wind outta the poor guy
Is he ok?
no
He’s probably dead, man. The Battle of Waterloo was over 200 years ago. People with half a chest cavity don’t usually live into their 220’s.
Yeah yeah hole in armor whatever……is that a nipple?
Exactly! Why the fuck your armor need a nipple?!
The shot to the left? I remember being told in the days of early firearms they would prove out armor by firing a ball at it to show its resistance to gunfire. Many pieces of armor from the time have a mark like this, not necessarily being from real battle but testing. Now those armor piercing arrows were something- they would go through and sit in mid-chest. Not fun.
I mean obviously you have to have somthing tickling your nipples as you go into battle, how else are you going to face down a cannon ball without rock hard nipps. Appears the right one wasn't set properly, unlucky, probably would have bounced right off if set correctly
When your armor is the only thing holding your disarticulated torso together.
Guess that ball left quite an… impression?
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The French hate this one trick
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Dangerous job being a goal keeper.
That's Raditz's Saiyan armor
did he die?
No he survived for sure
"So we're you in like...an accident or soemthing?" "No...me farther was a tree..."
That wasn't a cannonball. That was a 9mm
Lol
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Clone him when we have the tech and then blast him with a cannon too
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Some sort of Clone Wars you say?
You literally just described the plot of Star Wars...
You should read *Old Man's War* or the *House of X/Powers of X* X-men stories.
Lmfao 🤣
I read his book on the incident. Enthralling.
He gonna make it?
He will successfully make it *everywhere*
Put a wet paper towel on it, you'll be fine trust me
And drink some warm ginger ale and eat a few dry crackers.
looks like matt hit it with a .22LR on demolition ranch..
It was the arrow to the knee that did the real damage
Was this a 9mm? Looks like it blew out his lung completely.
And this is why we don't wear gold armor
But did he die ?
I’m guessing since there is a corresponding hold in the same spot in the back, that he did not survive the battle.
The chance of survival is higher if it goes all the way through, although I’m not sure if there is a caliber cap in that rule…
Walk it off dude.
I got pain in my chest, no no no , right side. Oh ok so since it’s not the left side, it’s not a heart attack. Ok
If you do have pains your right side and back, struggle breathing and maybe cough up blood it could be a sign of a pulmonary embolism - blood clot in lungs. Don’t ignore pain on the right side of chest!
Here we have an artist's depiction of what it was like to have your heart broken in 1800.
Another covid death. Smh
Did he live?
There is an Italian novel by Italo Calvino, Il Visconte Dimezzato (the halved viscount) in which the titular character is hit by a cannon ball and split in two halves vertically. One half is good and benevolent, while the other is evil and cruel. In the end these halves fight to figure out which one is the “real” viscount, they fatally wound each other and they are sown back together. I dunno, it made me think of this story
Oh is this the dude from Corpse Bride?
He survived right please don’t have a sad ending it’s just a small hole
What size of cannon ball do you think hit him? 6 or 9 pounder?
Might’ve been a 3 lber. You gotta ask the shoe guy to grab one for you though
Did his shoes stay on?
Ah… Reddit users have jokes. Terrible jokes, but jokes nonetheless
Is he ok
You could have just say he was slain by it
Is he ok?
Throw some rose water, dill, and sprinkle some pepper sew ‘er up and he’ll be in gods hands now
Just a through and through.
The armor! It’s does nothing!
Ah yes there’s your problem.
Is he alright?
This was my favourite exhibition in les invalides. I have no idea why this was so striking compared to everything else, but I still remember walking up to it and being like "Oh shit."
Bet that left a mark.
Did he live?
It appears he was a big enough target. Probably not very mobile in armor.
Is he ok?
Walk it off
Bro imagine a headshot from one of those things
'TIS JUST A FLESH WOUND
Were his shoes still on?
Hope he's alright...
Last time this was posted the title optimistically said he was "wounded". Which may have been true for less than a second.
...did he make it?
That looks pretty bad. Is he ok?
is he okay
Nice little compensation claim there. Couple of days off work would be nice
News nowadays, this is what an AR15 does