#Jean-Louis Michel

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Well, it's Black History Month! So! How about an Awesome French fencer? No, not that one!

Today You Learned about Jean-Louis Michel!

Born in Haiti in 1785 as the son of a fencing teacher, Jean-Louis Michel was trained by his father to be the ultimate fencing badass. And he was, friend. He was. At a young age, he won a fencing tournament. He went on to serve in the French Imperial Army of Napoleon Bonaparte because hot dang, you have skillz like that, you put them to use.

While stationed in Spain in 1814, the French soldiers and the Italian allies got in argument, and swords were drawn. The way the fight went, duelists would fight, and when one lost, the next guy in line duked it out with the victor of the last match. In these duels to the death, Jean-Louis fought--and defeated!--over a dozen other Italian fencing masters in a row.

At one point, sick of hearing racist nonsense, he challenged a guy to a duel, sticking to a training foil while the other guy used a blade. And he won, smacking the other guy across the face after his opponent had tired himself out.

After his illustrious career, which earned him medals, honors, and knighthood, Jean-Louis opened a fencing school. Also, according to Wikipedia at least, he taught his daughter to fight, and she became a fencing champion (because of course she did, look at who her dad is).

He didn't write any manuals, but he was a huge influence on French fencing for decades afterward, as you can imagine they'd want to preserve those skillz for posterity.

Also, there's a New Zealand fencing school named after him.

[diioonysus]

gold + art

[cedyat]

The next time you are dreading a teams call with your co-workers, just be glad you don't have to put up with these dudes. I legit forgot Junot wasn't a marshal. Just imagine Napoleon hasn't found a way to perma ban him yet.

[isa-ko]

Hallo 😀🧸 Happy late new year post? It’s been a while, I have a big doodle/WIP napoleonic dump from 2024 June to present. Many of these I couldn’t find time/energy to finish so…dump >:D

[shppics]

I’m getting too brain rotted (btw my Sona on the third pic)

[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

[meneeddeadmenyaoi]

happy late halloween🎃

[dinakisss]

Marshal studies

Guys I had to delete the other post cause I realized fuckass tumblr cut off oudinot and davout!🤬🤬🤬

[kelvinthegoatt]

I Jsut wanted to draw something..

[sunsolii]

Decided it'd be fun to turn random Smiski pics from Pinterest into Napoleonic shitposts, enjoy

[jabybarjo]

The ends of the Marshals

We know a lot about our marshals of empires, but for some their existence ends in 1814, I did some research and I did all the dates of death of the 26 marshals of the empire with their age of death and some information that I had, do not hesitate to say other information if you have any, when we look closely Lannes was the first to die and at a young age while the one who spent the most time on earth is Moncey who lived until 87 years old, yet it is Marmont who will be the last to die in 1852, I hope that this will be useful for some.

Shot:

-Murat, October 13, 1815 (trying to recover his former kingdom of Naples …) at 48 years old

-Ney, December 7, 1815 (judged as a traitor for having joined Napoleon in 1815) at 46 years old

Defenestrate: (throw at a window)

-Berthier, June 1, 1815 (suicide or murder?) at age 61

Killed in combat:

-Lannes, May 31, 1809, wounded in the leg, dies of his wounds, at age 40

-Bessières, May 1, 1813, wounded by a cannon (no chance of survival) at age 44

-Poniatowski, October 19, 1813, drowned during the battle of Liepzig, at age 50

assassinated:

-Brune, August 2, 1815 (victim of the white terror of 1815) at age 52

-Mortier, July 28, 1835 (killed in an attack) at age 67

illness:

-Davout, June 1, 1823 (probably of tuberculosis) at age 53

-Augereau, June 12, 1816, at age 58

-Masséna, April 4, 1817 (long-term ill) at age 58

-Gouvion Saint-Cyr, March 17, 1830 (stroke) at age 65

natural causes, old age: (Here it is mainly deaths from natural causes)

-Perignon, December 25, 1818, at age 64

-Serurier, December 21, 1819, at age 77

-Lefebvre, September 4, 1820, at age 64

-Kellermann, September 14, 1820, at age 85

-Suchet, January 3, 1826, at age 55

-Jourdan, November 23, 1833, at age 71

-MacDonald, September 25, 1840, at age 74

-Victor, March 1, 1841, at age 76

-Moncey, April 20 1842, at age 87

-Bernadotte, March 8, 1844 (died of a paralytic attack at age 81)

-Grouchy, May 29, 1847, at age 80

-Oudinot, September 13, 1847, at age 80

-Soult, November 26, 1851, at age 82

-Marmont, March 2, 1852, at age 77

[cedyat]

Why is my mind so adamant about finishing every stupid idea I get?

[isa-ko]

Drew some art requests from instagram friends to help stop soult-spam drawings (1/2)

They were so fun to draw. I need to draw other ppl besides soult and mortier again

[shppics]

Had a

freaky

drawing session in Magma with the pookie <3 @sweet-holopenyo

[mai-von-weissenfels]

I drew all 26 of Napoleon's marshals