Local Quiz

[Curlyshirley]

Can anyone help with this quiz question?

During the Napoleonic Wars with France, records show that captured French ships were allowed to continue if carrying consignments of which flowers?

[Chinajan]

Roses for Empress Josephine.

'...Pierre-Joseph Redouté was commissioned by her to paint the flowers from her gardens. Les Roses was published 1817–20 with 168 plates of roses; 75–80 of the roses grew at Malmaison. The English nurseryman Kennedy was a major supplier, despite England and France being at war, his shipments were allowed to cross blockades...'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Jos%C3%A9phine#Patroness_of_roses

[mallyh]

oh well done ,i have read pages about the napoleonic war to find an answer x

[Curlyshirley]

Brilliant. Thank you.