#Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

[mai-von-weissenfels]

I drew all 26 of Napoleon's marshals

[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 💐😚

[snatching-ishidates-wig]

Post-Austerlitz Complaints and Recriminations

(aka Imperial Alert: The girls are fightingggg)

"After Austerlitz, as after Ulm, there was a rich crop of mutual complaints and recriminations among the Marshals. A bitter feud between Bernadotte and Davout was developing and there were respective rows between Lannes and Soult, Soult and Davout, and Murat and Lannes. To crown everything Lannes to offense at the Emperor's bulletin which he felt, gave insufficient credit to the work done by Lannes' corps, and took himself off on a prolonged, self-awarded leave. It is significant that while Napoleon was swift to punish dereliction of duty by his Marshals in future years, he let this peccadillo pass."

(Humble, Richard. Napoleon’s Peninsular Marshals. 1975.)

[northernmariette]

Marshals' Save-the-Date Calendar: the January Boys

We have two birthdays coming up in January, one for a Marshal who is wildly popular, perhaps unfairly, and one for a Marshal many people love to hate, perhaps unfairly.

We are talking here about Ney on January 9, the giant with feet of clay; and Bernadotte on January 26, the future King of Sweden who remains unforgiven by many for acting in the best interests of the country that chose him to reign over it.

Both men have been accused of betraying France at some time. Ney died because of it following a rigged trial. Bernadotte outlived Ney by 29 years after a successful reign over Sweden, dying a beloved and popular king. His descendants still occupy the Swedish Throne.

[meneeddeadmenyaoi]

happy late halloween🎃

[kririawhahha]

Instead of rewriting my notes for math I sat on twinote making random images of the sillies 😓

for some stupid reason nowadays tumblr wont load and all I see are blurred images and loading screens this is absolutely outrageous 😡😡

[mvchiavelli]

Napoleonic magazine (fanservice release) BUT cover editions lulz 😴

Have this while I procrastinate on the magazine second edition 🗣️

(I wanted to do a Bimbo summit with Vienna (it was from an actual magazine headline) but it didn’t make it ehehe)

-also just a disclaimer this is satire and it’s purpose is to make it scandalous so some things may not be accurate ig soooo yep

[northernmariette]

I got a snicker out of Bernadotte attending the wedding. I suspect he and Naps didn't miss a chance to Play their little spiteful games at each others' expense. In time, Bernadotte came out the winner.

As you stated, Caroline probably met, or maybe just saw Murat in 1797 when she was just 15. I'm reminded of Queen Elizabeth II who met the Duke of Edinborough when she was 13 and never considered anyone else as her future husband. Maybe, just maybe this is what happened with Caroline, although she later had many lovers. But I like to imagine she made up her mind immediately. No proof, just my sometimes romantic imagination.

Your reply to my ask raised two more questions: how valid were these rumours that Murat tried to seduce Joséphine? (And what did she think of these attempts, I wonder). And what was the origin of Napoleon's mistrust of Murat? There is too little I know about him.

How did Murat and Caroline meet, and was it love at first sight for either of them? Who pursued whom? Why did Napoléon oppose their romance?

They most likely met in Mombello in the summer of 1797, but Murat was only there briefly and there’s no way to know how much he interacted with Caroline, or if this was when either fell in love with the other. Caroline would’ve only been 15 at the time, and Murat was still pretty attached to his mistress in Brescia. The courtship didn’t really begin until after Murat returned from the Egyptian campaign. As to who pursued who, Caroline’s ability to conduct any sort of pursuit was hampered by the fact that she was at Madame Campan’s school at the time, but she was certainly obsessed with him by this point, and, for his part, Murat went as far as sending some troops to the school to give her a message about the Brumaire coup. Not long after this, they made their desire to marry known to Napoleon. He was opposed to it not only because he was already looking ahead towards making far more politically advantageous marriages for Caroline and his other siblings, but also because he didn’t entirely trust Murat, or have a high opinion of his character because of his various escapades in Italy and political maneuverings (and, apparently, rumors of inappropriate flirtations with Josephine) during an earlier trip to Paris during the Italian campaign. Eventually, with the urging of Josephine and others, Napoleon caved and reluctantly consented to the marriage, but he did not attend the wedding (his rival Bernadotte did though, at Murat’s possibly spiteful invitation).

[tellerede]

Doodle dump (kind of)

Exam year is killing me help. (Also I know I drew Napoleon with the wrong uniform collar thing in one of these but shhh🙏🙏)

[pipervive]

"Sitting on a horse in the middle of the city square, surrounded by Russian, Prussian and Austrian staff officers, the Crown Prince of Sweden calmly watched his compatriots being hacked to pieces."

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Reference and a bonus video under the cut (did you know you can't upload more than 1 video in a post? Cause I didn't 🫠)

Bonus video of me repenting for my sins for forgetting a certain someone...

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Thank you for showing the details!

If those monarchs are talking like they're on Twitter, I feel like Bernadotte would say this. He's politicianing

Never posted the pictures of Bernadotte’s Marshal uniform I took in the Swedish Royal Armory a few months ago didn’t I

Yeah I was excited about marshals at the time but I wasn’t expecting to see this there despite the current Swedish Royal family being, you know, The House of Bernadotte

Closeups under the cut as well as bonus other napoleonic stuff and a terrible picture of a marshal’s baton

The oakleaf embroidery has little acorns/pinecones on it!

Also presuming the holes in the first pictures are where the medals/awards went

I also 3D scanned the uniform I should really extract that and do something with it at some point

Also there was a very cute/twee “historical twitter” exhibit

From what I know of Bernadotte and Napoleon’s relationship, this seems a little inaccurate

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Bernadotte, Minister of War

"While Napoleon was campaigning in Egypt, in July 1799 Bernadotte was appointed Minister of the War with the support of Joseph and Lucien Bonaparte. His abrasive style meant he didn’t last for long. When informed there was no money in the treasury, he sent orders to stir up the men at the front, and before long the necessary supplies were furnished. After the incident Directory was alarmed at Bernadotte’s popularity and dismissed him from office in September. When Napoleon returned to France from Egypt, Bernadotte unsuccessfully attempted to have him arrested for desertion and breaking the quarantine that applied to ships returning from Egypt. When asked by his brother-in-law whether he would support the coup of 18 Brumaire, Bernadotte remained neutral."

(Debutify. “Jean Baptiste Bernadotte - Part 1: French Soldier to Swedish King.” Napoleonic Impressions, 15 Jan. 2021, napoleonicimpressions.com/blogs/napoleonic-impressions/jean-baptiste-bernadotte-part-1-french-soldier-to-swedish-king.)

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I know 'Euphoria' has been out for a few months now, but I still wanted to make a meme out of Davout and Bernadotte's beef using the iconic verse from the diss track. Plus, it's my favorite out of Kendrick's diss tracks

[josefavomjaaga]

I very much agree with this assessment. Calling Bernadotte a traitor seems only reasonable from a 19th century point of view, when the term “nation” was so overburdened with pathos.

Bernadotte, a traitor? A personal opinion.

It's still Bernadotte's birthday for a few minutes as I start this, so here is my offering for today's birthday boy.

Here is my inexpert, insufficiently researched opinion about Bernadotte being, or not being, a traitor. Right off the bat, a traitor to whom, to what? To Napoléon? To France? In my opinion, he was a traitor to neither. I might be all over the place with this, so please bear with my disorganised rambling.

Someone much wiser than I am wrote something, somewhere, that there are no unmixed motives. So did Bernadotte act from completely noble motives? I doubt it. Were his actions justified after he became heir to the Swedish Throne? In my opinion, yes.

Because there are some people who think that it was inappropriate for Bernadotte to marry Désirée Clary, I will put this to rest right from the get-go. Napoléon had dumped Désirée. He had *dumped* her. He had done so when it was much more serious to break up an engagement than it is now. So Napoléon had no claim at all anymore on Désirée. At the time of her marriage to Bernadotte, Napoléon was certainly more politically and socially prominent, but Bernadotte was no slouch himself.

Personally, I suspect Napoléon was not too proud of the way he had treated Désirée, and this is part of the reason he went easy (sort of) on Bernadotte, a general he disliked, if not more. Similarly Bernadotte had no great affection for Napoléon. These two never got along. Napoléon did not like rivals, for one thing, and Bernadotte had had a successful military career himself and was politically ambitious.

Anyway, enough about the early days. It is well known that Bernadotte had treated his Swedish prisoners well during the napoleonic campaigns, and that this created a very favourable impressions at the Swedish court. In 1810, when Bernadotte was asked to become the Crown Prince of Sweden he was in disfavour with Napoléon and perhaps felt that there was no future for him in France. The Swedish offer must have seemed a gift from Heaven. As I see it, here was his chance to get out from under Napoleon's thumb, acquire some elbow room and satisfy his own political ambitions. Still, he sought Napoleon's consent before accepting the offer. I hardly see any traitorous action yet.

Bernadotte was not naïve about the reasons for the Swedish offer. Russia had just wrested Finland from Sweden, and the Swedes wanted a military man to wrest it back. Bernadotte chose another path: he came to an agreement with Russia, and increased Sweden's territory by seizing Norway instead.

Here is where we get into the whole treason business: it was expected that once Bernadotte assumed de facto rule In Sweden, which happened immediately as the King was no longer fit to reign, he would remain faithful to the interests of France. Bernadotte looked to the interests of Sweden instead. In other words, he refused to keep one foot in each camp and brought both feet into the Swedish camp. In my opinion, this was the right thing to do.

Let me offer this metaphor : suppose you have this legendary sports team. Just for the heck of it, let's say the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. You have on this team a star player who spent his long career on this team, all the while with a coach who just loved to browbeat him. Then the star player gets a dream offer to become a coach himself for a less prestigious team, but with carte blanche to mold it according to his own ideas and principles. Would this new coach act properly if he enjoined his players to go easy on his former team, just because he owed his fame to his time there as a player? My answer is no, no, no, no! The new coach's loyalty has to be to his present team, the one who wanted him as a coach; anything else would be wrong.

This is an oversimplification, of course, and I have no doubt that jealousy and resentment played a part in Bernadotte's choices. However, on the face of it I am convinced Bernadotte acted properly by protecting the interests of his new country. If the interests of Sweden lay with joining a coalition against Napoléon, then this was the proper decision for Bernadotte to make.

If I were to study Bernadotte's life in greater depth, something I would like to do, I might come to another opinion. In the meantime, I see no treason in his putting Sweden's interests first.

[eunikia]

Nap fantasized about him a lot... I'm crying :()