#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?̴?̴

[armagnac-army]

OOC: The Napoleonic Askblog/Roleplay Scene Directory

Here's an Out Of Character post listing the blogs I'm aware of in the Napoleonic RPF Roleplay Scene! It's OOC because Lannes would want to make sarcastic remarks with typos.

If you want (or don't want) your blog on this list, message me and whether you want a main/other blog associated with your name or whether you want to be anonymised! Also happy to include non-Frenchmen and Frev folks.

Doubles or multiple versions of people are welcome, this is a varied afterlife. We all have our different ideas for what this afterlife is like as well.

Feel free to reblog or link to this!

And now we have a OOC discord server to chat about all of this! Feel free to join if you'd like!

The Marshalate

armagnac-army - Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello - played by cadmusfly

murillo-enthusiast - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, and ADCs - played by cadmusfly

@le-brave-des-braves - Michel Ney, Prince of the Moskva, Duke of Elchingen, and ADCs - played by @neylo

@your-dandy-king - Joachim Murat, King of Naples - played by @phatburd

@chicksncash - André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli, and others - played by @chickenmadam also playing as his ADC, with appearances from Marshal Augereau, the Cuirassier Generals d'Hautpoul and Nansouty, and the Horse Grenadier General Lepic

@your-staff-wizard - Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram - played by @chickenmadam, as above

@perdicinae-observer - Louis-Nicolas Davout, Prince of Eckmühl, Duke of Auerstaedt - played by @mbenguin

@bow-and-talon - Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr

@france-hater - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, or Karl XIV Johan of Sweden, played by @deathzgf also includes the Duke of Wellington and Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration

@simple-giant-ed - Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso, played by @isa-ko

@bayard-de-la-garde - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Duke of Istria

@le-bayard-polonaise - Prince Józef Poniatowski of Poland

@oudinot-still-alive - Nicolas Charles Oudinot duc de Reggio, played by @spaceravioli2

@beausoleil-de-bellune - Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno

@commandant-des-traitres - Auguste de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa

@tonnerre-d-alsace - François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig

@everyones-favourite-marshal - Joachim Murat, King of Naples, played by @xxnightfrostxx

@karlxivjohan - Karl XIV of Sweden or Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

The Grande Armée

@general-junot - Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes - played by @promises-of-paradise

@askgeraudduroc - Géraud Duroc, Duke of Frioul, Grand-Marshal of the Palace - played by @sillybumblebeegirl, also with cameos from Marshal Bessières shared with your-dandy-king

@trauma-and-truffles - Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, Surgeon to Napoleon and the Imperial Guard - played by @hoppityhopster23 who also plays his modern assistant

@generaldesaix - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, most likely would have been a marshal if he lived - played by @usergreenpixel

@messenger-of-the-battlefield - Marcellin Marbot, aide-de-camp of maréchal Lannes - played by @a-system-of-nerds (Inactive)

@le-dieu-mars - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, General - played by @chickenmadam

@puddinglesablonniere - Charles-Étienne César Gudin de La Sablonnière, Gemeral of Davout's Corps

@francoislejeunes - Baron Louis-François Lejeune, ADC to Berthier, Artist and Engineer

@troboi1806 - Jacques de Trobriand, ADC to Marshal Davout

@cynics-and-cynology, Captain Elzéar Blaze

@thehussargeneral - General Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle, played by upbeatmeeting

@pondicherry-pie - Charles-Rene Magon de Medine, Rear Admiral of the Combined Fleet at Trafalgar, played by chickenmadam

chanceux-et-perdu - Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve, Vice Admiral of the Combined Fleet at Trafalgar, played by cadmusfly

@general-alex-dumas - Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, General of the Republican Army of France

The Bonaparte Family

@carolinemurat - Caroline Murat née Buonaparte, Queen of Naples - played by @usergreenpixel

@alexanderfanboy - Napoleon Bonaparte, The Big Cheese

@frencheaglet - Napoleon II, also known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, played by @usergreenpixel

@rosie-of-beauharnais - Rose Beauharnais, also known as Josephine Bonaparte, once Empress of the French

@le-fils - Eugène Beauharnais, Prince of the Empire, Bonaparte's stepson, played by @josefavomjaaga

@jbonapartes - Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, Prince of Montfort

@napoleon-bonapartee - Napoleon Bonaparte, The Head Honcho

@rulergreenkeeper - Napoleon Bonaparte, The Exiled Gardener

Other Notable Personages

@askjackiedavid - Jacques Louis David, neoclassical painter - played by @sillybumblebeegirl

@lazarecarnot - Lazare Carnot, mathematician, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety

@serpentofotranto - Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Comte Fouché, statesman and Minister of Police

@monsieurdetalleyrand - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Talleyrand, statesman and diplomat

@templesorphan - Marie Thérèse of France, duchess of Angoulême

Not French

Russians

@the-blessed-emperor - Tsar Alexander I (Inactive)

@loyal-without-flattery - General Aleksey Andreevich Arakcheev, who runs His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery (Inactive)

@misha-wants-to-go-home - Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, played by @spaceravioli2

@catherinesucks - Tsar Paul I of Russia, father of Alexander I

@ask-tsaralexander - Tsar Alexander I, played by @goddammitjosef

British

@the1ronduke - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, played by @spaceravioli2

@banasstre - Banastre Tarleton, Major-General

@pakenham-kitty - Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

@britannias-god-of-war - Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte

@lord-byrons-ghost - some Napoleon fan Lord George Gordon Byron, played by @vesseloftherevolution

@prinnyramblings - King George IV

Spanish

@headlessgenius - Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Painter and proud Spaniard

Prussians

@der-schnapsvater - Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher

Original Characters and Friends

@the-adventures-of-lydia-brown - Lydia Brown, a jack of all trades and problem solver finding herself in this strange realm with all these dead Frenchmen

Hopster, trauma-and-truffles's modern time travelling assistant

Madam DuQuay, ADC who takes no nonsense, helping out chicksncash, your-staff-wizard and le-dieu-mars

[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!

[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:

[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

[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