#Géraud Duroc

[largecucumber]

Hiiiii 😫💖How are you guyssss?

Here’re some cute and silly drawings. THEY ALL LOOK SO FUNNY (especially Ney 🥲) There’re so many things I wanna draw, but I just don’t have the time waaahhh 😭

Anyways, I hope y’all are doing fantastic 💐😚

[sunsolii]

Traditional piece of our precious Duroc

I had fun drawing the silver embroidery on his clothes and cloak

[empirearchives]

Napoleon being emo in 1800, but making an exception for Joseph and Duroc:

“Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers. Perhaps Joseph a little from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him, too.”

The source of this quote is from Bourrienne, one of Napoleon’s schoolmates who he hired (and fired for possible corruption). He wrote a popular and debatable but very often sourced memoir.

Btw, here is an excerpt from a letter Napoleon wrote to Joseph:

“We have lived so many years so closely bound together that our hearts have become entwined. You know better than anyone how profoundly mine is entirely devoted to you.”

Yeah, he loved him only “a little.”

[mandatorycommunistbrunchhour]

The tournament for Nappy

[yaggy031910]

I kind of get the feeling that he meant "yeah, I am soaked thanks to all the rain and I am not having a good time because of that but my physical health didn't take a toll from these circumstances". 😅

I don't know why but the "I lost no one of great importance" part really stood out to me. He already lost Bessières almost three weeks before this letter was written and was about to lose Duroc three days later. 🙁🥲

A letter from Napoleon to Marie Louise:

"I am rather unwell" "my health is good" MAKE UP YOUR MIND, WHICH IS IT?!?!

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Géraud Duroc:

a. “He was a ray of sunshine and a sweet angel. He was a lifelong companion of Napoleon and they were besties. He died in battle in 1813 and Napoleon bought the farm he died in to put a monument up in his memory.”

b. “He’s so hot he lit Moscow on fire, he also totally banged Napoleon fr fr He deserves to win because he lost to a traffic cone in that other poll”

Klemens von Metternich:

a. "Have you seen him“

b. ""Look, this one is for the villainfuckers out there. Is he morally good? Who cares. He is slippery and pretty and has a silver tongue. And famously had so much sex. If you've ever wanted to fuck a flamboyant, suave villain, he should be your pick."

[phatburd]

Chiaroscuro (6972 words) by whisper_that_dares

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Napoleonic Era RPF, Historical RPF, 19th Century CE RPF

Rating: E Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Joachim Murat/Jean-Baptiste Bessières Characters: Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Joachim Murat, Caroline Bonaparte, Géraud Duroc, Jean Lannes, Napoleon I de France | Napoleon Bonaparte (mentioned) Additional Tags: Angry Sex, Period Typical Attitudes, Polyamory Negotiations, Jealousy, Angst, Heartbreak, Historical Figures, Hopeful Ending, Bessimu, Podfic Welcome

Summary:

France, December 1799. Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte are due to be married in a month, and absolutely everyone can see that they're in love with one another.

Jean-Baptiste Bessières sees it too. In public, he's been Murat's adoring and supportive friend. In private, as Murat's longtime lover, he's unraveling.

[josefavomjaaga]

So I looked for letters by Duroc and ... there will be an edition of his correspondence coming out in September! Whopping 2,800 letters!

The bad news: It's 98.- €.

[askgeraudduroc]

To: Géraud Duroc

You are invited to the anonymous party. Mortier is also there, chilling with a cool golden retriever. (We are still thinking whether we should invite Marmont too or not. Let us think.)

Oh My! Thanks you very much for your invitation! ^7^

H̴m̴m̴p̴h̴ ̴>̴:̴T̴

W̴e̴l̴l̴.̴.̴.̴

I̴f̴ ̴y̴o̴u̴ ̴D̴O̴ ̴d̴e̴c̴i̴d̴e̴ ̴t̴o̴ ̴i̴n̴v̴i̴t̴e̴ ̴m̴e̴.̴.̴.̴ ̴(̴I̴ ̴m̴i̴g̴h̴t̴ ̴g̴e̴t̴ ̴w̴h̴y̴ ̴y̴o̴u̴ ̴d̴o̴n̴'̴t̴ ̴b̴u̴t̴ ̴s̴t̴i̴l̴l̴ ̴y̴o̴u̴ ̴a̴r̴e̴ ̴a̴l̴l̴ ̴m̴e̴a̴n̴)̴ I̴ ̴c̴o̴u̴l̴d̴ ̴b̴r̴i̴n̴g̴ ̴m̴y̴ ̴v̴e̴r̴y̴ ̴s̴p̴e̴c̴i̴a̴l̴ ̴w̴i̴n̴e̴ ̴c̴r̴e̴m̴e̴ ̴b̴r̴u̴l̴e̴é̴!

H̴o̴w̴ ̴d̴o̴e̴s̴ ̴t̴h̴a̴t̴ ̴s̴o̴u̴n̴d̴,̴ ̴e̴h̴?̴?̴

[impetuous-impulse]

As far as I'm aware, French compound names like Jean-Baptiste and Jean-de-Dieu compose one name, so you wouldn't refer to people with one half of their name like you wouldn't call San Francisco just "San". And then there are people with multiple first names, like Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, which usually happens with people of aristocratic descent, and where they are generally known by one of their first names. There are some interesting threads answered by Real Francophones about the practice in the modern day. Interesting workarounds to the mouthful these compound names are include shortening them to first syllables or initials (so Jean-Baptiste would be Jean-Bap or JB maybe?).

Historically, this is a very strange business because hypens are so inconsistent, and sometimes people get called nicknames. I've seen Soult's son, who has the first names Napoléon and Hector, called "Napoléon-Hector" and "Napoléon Hector". In practice, he was called Hector during the Restoration to avoid being censured in letters and suspected for Bonapartist tendencies but his sister, Joséphine Louise Hortense (called Hortense), referred to him as "Nana" when they were teenagers. Ney's eldest son, Napoléon(-)Joseph, referred to himself as Napoléon but was consistently called "Léon" by his siblings and family. Ney's second eldest, Michel Louis Félix, was consistently called "Aloys". Keep in mind they were all children then and perhaps the names were only used among family, not spouses or lovers, and probably not in public, when they grew up.

In the 18th to 19th century, I doubt many men went by their first names unless they were monarchs or still children. I don't read nearly enough correspondence to say for sure, but I've never seen a general or marshal being referred to by their first names in their correspondence with each other. More often than not, it's their titles or their last names. With lovers and spouses, I think YMMV and it is dependent on the Frenchman. Women were mostly called by their first names unless they were being referred to as "madame", in which case they took on their husband's last name.

Question for 18th/19th century Frenchmen fandom - I’m approaching this from Napoleonic fandom but this broadly applies

So some of these lads have hyphens in their names - lots of Jean-Baptistes around, Jean-de-Dieu, really there’s a whole lotta Jeans around, real denim store hours here

It’s my assumption that 1. Close friends, lovers and marital* partners would use a first name and 2. Those double barrelled Jeans would go by “Jean” in such situations

Are those assumptions correct or would they go by the full name? Or is it dependent on the specific Frenchman?

Re ally I don’t really know the protocol around double barrelled first names and whether those are middle names or not, I don’t really know the protocol around middle names in general

* I typoed this as martial, which when writing about soldiers, lol

[koda-friedrich]

Doodles!

[isa-ko]

I come back with a non-field marshal today hello. I literally have all the marshals drawn out already. It’s just taking me forever to post for some reason

[sunsolii]

This what I did for my final project for one of my classes. We had to make a series of ink drawings that were connected to each other and decided to create a series about the negative impact the Napoleonic wars had on the soldiers and marshals. I chose to draw Lannes, Murat, Ney, and Duroc (even tho he isn't a marshal but he fit the narrative I chose for this project). The lack of facial features is because it was hella hard to draw their faces without doing a sketch first. Besides they look cool without a face, gives the drawings an eerie vibe to them

[empirearchives]

I really hate that every time I google Duroc, a friggin pig is what pops up.

I want to see this:

But I end up seeing this:

[histoireettralala]

Duroc in Russia.

Duroc arrived at the Russian capital at a rather opportune moment, given that the Francophobe faction was on the wane. Russia was keenly interested in German affairs, since the Russian imperial family had close family connections to many German princely houses. Alexander appears to have been interested in gathering the help of other greater powers so as to dilute France's influence in German affairs. Such Russian sentiments had been reinforced by Austrian overtures suggesting a new Russo-Austrian alliance. The arrival of Duroc, however, changed the Russian position. The French revealed that the Austrians, while sounding out Russia on the question of a new alliance, were also eagerly pushing proposals for reviving the old alliance with France. Unpleased by this double game, the Russian court was willing to consider French offers. On October 8, 1801, five months before Amiens, a formal peace treaty between Russia and France was signed in Paris. The treaty consisted of two parts, with the public section containing formal declarations of amity and peace between the two nations, while the second part contained secret articles in which the real conditions of Franco-Russian relations were outlined. In the second set of provisions, the two powers agreed to achieve a common accord in respect to Germany, where a "just equilibrium between the Houses of Autria and Brandenburg"[Prussia] "was desired".

Alexander Mikaberidze- The Napoleonic Wars, A Global History

[snatching-ishidates-wig]

"The door of the monument was open, Napoléon paused at the entrance in a grave and respectful attitude. He gazed into the shadow enclosing the hero's [Frederick the Great] ashes, and stood thus for nearly ten minutes motionless, silent, as if buried in deep thought. There were five or six of us with him: Duroc, Caulaincourt, an aide-de-camp and I. We gazed at this solemn and extraordinary scene, imagining the two great men face to face, identifying ourselves with the thoughts we ascribed to our Emperor before that other genius whose glory survived the overthrow of his work, who was as great in extreme adversity as in success."

(General Ségur)