#Louis Bonaparte

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the bonaparte siblings (requested by anon)

"They were not worried about seeming out of place, they did not fear making mistakes or doing something silly; they had no concern for responsibilities; they had a self-confidence that was not even accompanied by a sense of the duties high position entailed. And this self-confidence sustained them despite everything, and so long as their luck held, it made easy for them things that to others seemed simply impossible. […] The audacity to attempt everything, the certainty of succeeding everywhere— in short, all the attributes of genius, except for genius." — Frédéric Masson

J O S E P H's close bond with the Emperor was often tested throughout their political careers, but never broken. He was without question his closest companion but proved to be more successful as a businessman before and after the Empire.

L U C I E N was never offered a crown or a throne, and broke off from the rest of the family as early as the 1800s. He frequently opposed his brothers' views and notably refused to divorce his wife in favor of a diplomatic alliance. Unlike his siblings, his title was bestowed by the Pope.

E L I S A, contrary to her sisters who primarily held consort roles or acted as strawmen, is believed to be the only Bonaparte sister, and only woman, with actual political powers bestowed by the Emperor. She's the only one of the adult siblings to die before him.

L O U I S' frequent conflicts with the Emperor led Napoléon to annex the Kingdom of Holland in 1810, driving him and his family into exile. Louis would go on to become the father of Napoléon III.

Despite a tumultuous relationship, P A U L I N E was considered Napoléon's favorite sister, and proved to be the most loyal of the imperial siblings, liquidating her assets and visiting him in Elba.

Often regarded as the most influential of the Bonaparte sisters, C A R O L I N E was constantly caught in-between her husband and her brother. She was instrumental in the divorce and remarriage of the Emperor. Her political legacy not only didn't survive the fall of the Empire, but effectively predated it through a series of conflicts with her brother.

J E R O M E was the last sibling standing by 1860, and out of them all was the only one to support the Emperor at Waterloo. He would also be the only one to see the re-creation of the Empire and his nephew on the throne.

[zenia62]

Gacha Club Napoleonic Figures 😬💀

Hey guys, soo I found an album of Gacha Club Napoleonic figures I made like almost 3 years ago 😀 I thought why not I show it here- Reminder that this is so cringe 😭 Back then I was obsessed w making short skits w them or story for wattpad that I never finished cus I hate it 😮‍💨 Yes I used to have stories abt Napoleonic figures being in high school 😶 I'll give u guys context on each photos js incase these skins are barely recognizable ��‍💫

1. This is basically British figures in Napoleonic era using modern outfit if they lived now 😐

2. Uhh I don't remember this- I think this is Napoleon w all of his siblings 🤨 Napoleon was the left one from the middle. The middle guy is Joseph, to the right is Lucien n Louis n Pauline? n Jerome. I don't remember the 2 girls besides Napoleon tho so 😔

3. Who is this ppl 😭- Y'all I genuinely don't remember all of these ppl. I know George III w the yellow uniform, Alexander I on his right n Frederik William III on his left I think? 😟

4. The British gang again- idk what is my obsession back then w them 💀 I still remember this, middle is Arthur, left to him is Castlereagh, Canning n Hardy. Right to Arthur is Nelson n Lawrence I think?? 🤔

5. There is absolutely no way I made Arthur as a cheerful guy in here wtf😭😭 Why is Alex so mean here 💀 I remember I made a short skit of this trio being stuck in a Elevator but thank god I lost the video 😌

That's all for now, I found alot more but it was mostly Dutch East Indies Governors cus I also apparently had a story of them in Wattpad that I already discontinued n deleted years ago 😁 I'm never active anymore in Wattpad but if y'all are curious on what kind on story I made 2 years ago (Spolier it is also very cringe), here's the link n keep in mind I'll never continuing the story anymore 🙂 Anyways, thank you guys m have a nice day 🌙

https://www.wattpad.com/story/303994471?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=Nelsonsimp

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Do you guys ever wonder why some people in the napoleonic fandom are popular, or even romanticized to the point of being barely recognizable, while others are not? Why some are branded villains, while the same or worse actions from others are somehow ignored or excused?

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EIGHT SURVIVING CHILDREN OF CARLO AND LETIZIA BONAPARTE, SIBLINGS OF NAPOLEON I 🥺🌟♥️

254 years ago on this day, Napoleon Bonaparte, the first French emperor was born

On the occasion of his birthday, meet the Eight surviving children of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte, who lived to adulthood

Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to 13 children between 1768 and 1784; five of them died, two at birth and three in their infancy...😥🥀

Among the 13 children, the first child who died was Napoleone Buonaparte, who was born on August 17, 1765 and died on the same day... The last child to die was Jérôme Bonaparte, who died 95 years after his eldest brother...

The registered names of all the children of Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte:

• Napoleone Buonaparte (born and died 17 August 1765)

• Maria Anna Buonaparte (3 January 1767 – 1 January 1768)

• Joseph Bonaparte (7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844)

• Napoleon Bonaparte (Later French emperor) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)

• Maria Anna Buonaparte (14 July 1771 – 23 November 1771)

• A stillborn child (1773)

• Lucien Bonaparte (21 March 1775 – 29 June 1840)

• Maria Anna (Elisa) Bonaparte (3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820)

• Louis Bonaparte (2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846)

• Pauline Bonaparte (20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825)

• Caroline Bonaparte (25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839)

• Jérôme Bonaparte (15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860)

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Napoleonic + red

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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte!

This is napoleon’s brother, Louis.

Napoleon DID not like his brother and gave Louis one job after conquering the Netherlands,

he became the king of the Netherlands.

When Louis announced that he was the king of Netherlands,

Instead of “ik ben jullie koning!” He said, “ik ben jullie konijn!” (Koning is king)

Which meant, rabbit.

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, September 2nd:

Marie Josephine of Savoy, Comtesse de Provence, 1753

Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1778

Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838

Louise of Austria, Crown Princess of Saxony, 1870

Elisabeth Marie, Austrian Archduchess, 1883

Miriam, Crown Princess of Bulgaria, 1963

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[joachimnapoleon]

Bust of Louis Bonaparte, taken during my recent visit to Malmaison.

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MALMAISON MEDIA SALON SOIRÉE 21: THE ACADÉMIE (2012)

1. The Introduction

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Did you miss me?! I missed you too!

Life has been hectic, but I’m back with a review of a book I came across by accident while browsing Goodreads. The setting of Madame Campan’s school isn’t used that much and has a potential, so of course I was interested.

The book itself is seemingly only available for purchase so far. On websites like Amazon that is. I couldn’t find it in the database of archive.org at least. But perhaps someone will upload it in the future.

Anyway, I’m always a sucker for more obscure media, so let’s proceed with the review already!

(Dedicated to @pobodleru and @josefavomjaaga )

2. The Summary

“Eliza Monroe, daughter of a wealthy Virginia lawyer, is sent to France by her family to get a better education fit for a lady.

At the school, she is quickly roped into manipulation games between two bitter enemies: Hortense de Beauharnais and Caroline Bonaparte.

Each of the girls will also experience love, betrayal and many other aspects of growing up.”

Coming of age stories are a classic for a reason, so let’s see how this concept is executed!

(Trigger warning for mentions of physical abuse, murder and suicide.)

3. The Story

First of all, there are too many POVs. Eliza, Caroline and Hortense EACH have their own POV chapters, where they narrate their side of the story in first person.

While this concept of switching between POVs could potentially work, the problem here is that there is too much switching, which gets very annoying and confusing. Basically, too damn much of a good writing device.

Secondly, for a fairly interesting premise, the story doesn’t do squat with it for two thirds of the book. Eliza doesn’t pick sides, characters don’t develop properly and the love subplots don’t get resolved.

For two. Fucking. THIRDS. Of the book!

The conflicts only get sort of resolved in the final third of the book, which, as you can probably imagine, just isn’t enough time to do it properly. And guess what! The author DROPS THE BALL WITH THE RESOLUTION and, as a result, nothing makes sense like she pulled the resolution out of her ass.

Another side effect is that the characters barely change at all over the course of the story, when growing up after facing adversity is the entire point of a coming of age story!

Which brings us to…

4. The Characters

I don’t like Eliza Monroe. The problem isn’t that she is a bratty teenager, by the way. The problem is that she doesn’t change over the course of the story and barely has agency, especially in the beginning.

Hortense and Caroline just play her like a fiddle most of the time, while Eliza herself just waits for something juicy to happen so she can gossip with her mother via letters.

Eliza is just a character blander than unseasoned oatmeal.

Caroline Bonaparte, as usual, is the bad guy. She is a selfish, manipulative cunt who only cares about herself and MAYBE Murat. Then she suddenly speed runs a sort of a redemption arc in the end, and even then it’s ambiguous if it was genuine or not.

Hortense de Beauharnais is supposed to be the good character, depicted by the narrative as better than Caroline in every way and almost beatified by the story.

Unfortunately, this makes her lack depth too and makes it very jarring when she does really shitty things, like trying to drive a wedge between Eugéne and his love interest due to believing that said love interest is unworthy of her brother and should know her place.

She never gets called out on her bullshit either! Our saintly Hortense, Neighbors! Oh, and she has an inappropriate relationship with her stepfather! Or well, implications of such a tryst.

Eugéne is a cinnamon roll personified. At least, until her accidentally kills his love interest, Madeleine. Supposedly, this happens because Madeleine is unstable due to enduring abuse and pining for Eugéne, yet all that happens is that she gets conveniently killed off by Eugéne and we never get to see if she truly was unstable or not. We are TOLD this, but not shown evidence.

By the way, Madeleine had the most potential out of all the important characters. An aspiring biracial actress horribly abused by her jealous, drug-addicted mother and pining for Eugéne, hoping to be rescued like in a fairy tale.

Madeleine is depicted fairly realistically, in my opinion, but then she is suddenly killed off to conveniently resolve the conflict of Josephine not accepting her as a match for Eugéne. No buildup, no significant consequences, ZILCH! Only Eugéne seems shaken by her death, but we aren’t really shown much of this either, merely TOLD.

Josephine, while definitely capable of kindness, has her own selfish bitchy moments, like not giving a fuck that Madeleine died or that Eugéne is shaken up by accidentally killing her. Her own past as a slave owner is also mostly conveniently omitted and she isn’t shown as being called out for it, unlike Eliza, who IS called out for thinking slavery is normal.

Letizia Bonaparte is a scheming snake just like Caroline, almost to cartoonish levels.

Napoleon Bonaparte is a stereotypical shortie, and also almost being a pervert to his stepdaughter. Ewww…

Madame Campan is a stereotypical kind and strict mentor.

So yeah. Most characters don’t feel interesting at all.

5. The Setting

The setting is mostly just mediocre, with occasional common cliches like claiming Robespierre REIGNED in France or that nobility during Frev was automatically in danger. But these are far from the worst offenders, so eh.

The descriptions are surprisingly good though, in that they are integrated into the book in a balanced way, so here at least one win for the author!

6. The Writing

Problems with the writing start WITH THE TITLE. More specifically, combining French spelling of a noun with an English article. “THE ACADÉMIE”, “THE TERREUR”, etc.

It’s unjustified and clunky at best. At worst, it looks like the author is just throwing in French words because the book is set in France. I would understand if it was a foreign character trying to show off and making these weird mistakes, but ALL CHARACTERS speak like that!

It’s… definitely an odd choice.

Other than that, however, a bit of props to the author for at least trying to write realistic bratty teenagers.

7. The Conclusion

Honestly, this book isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen. Not by a long shot. However, I would still recommend to give it a hard pass. It’s not bad. Not even so bad that it’s funny. And not even rage inducing.

Just… meh. Bland. Nothing to write home about.

On that note, I declare this Soirée at the Malmaison Media Salon as finished. Hope you stay tuned for more future reviews though!

Love,

Citizen Green Pixel

[captainknell]

Happy birthday Louis Bonaparte! September 2, 1778

Brother of Napoleon, father of Napoleon III

[koda-friedrich]

Louis🌸

[zenia62]

Daendels Downfall as Governor-General

Hii everyone!! ✨️ As I promised, I'll be explaining on why Daendels was replaced as a governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. It's going to be a bit complicated n long but I'll try my best to summarize them ^^

In an article I've read, when Daendels ruled the Dutch East Indies, many Dutch people despise his action as it was heavily inspired by the French Empire style. Before Daendels arrival, the Dutch ppl had divided powers among themselves and basically did some corruption to enrich themselves aswell. Ever since he came, they all lost many of their income n those who disagree with his way of ruling etc, will be sent back to their homeland by boat.

Those who got sent back complained abt Daendels to the minister of Holland at that time, Van Der Heim. The thing was, Van Der Heim also hated Daendels. So he used this opportunity to bring him down. Van Der Heim started a campaign to remove Daendels from the position of governor-general. He believed that Daendels should be replaced by Jan Willem Janssens.

"Jan Willem was shy of a good job. Although he realized that he might not have been the most capable person for the Indies, he really wanted to tackle something new"

Van Der Heim n Janssens are friends and Janssens himself was able to make a good first impression on everyone. The example can be seen bellow.

"At that time he was part of the Dutch segation that came to inform Napoleon in Rambouillet of Louis's 'decision' to resign. On the spot, he had a long meeting with Napoleon about Indies affairs on August 16, in which he – apparently successfully – conveyed the last gossip about Daendels."

The worst part was that Van Der Heim said to have stopped paying Dutch salary (maybe like a subsidies?) To Aleida, Daendels wife, while he was ruling in the Dutch East Indies.

"On July 31, in a new letter to the emperor, he wrote: "Daendels is a bad man, but we have his wife and his children". It does say something about the level of Lebrun, or about the culture of the French empire at that time, to immediately see the family of the governor-general of the Indies as a hostage."

Why would Lebrun (Friend of Van Der Heim I believe. I kinda forgot 😔) held Daendels family hostage?? I still don't understand this part to be honest. But it doesn't end here. Van Der Heim also wrote a critic report about Daendels.

"One of his biggest aproaches against Daendels was that he had wrongly reported that it was quiet in Bantam (Banten)."

"Another accusation was that Daendels brigadier, Sandol Roy had been deposed on Java."

Actually, talking abt Sandol Roy, he was a commander-in-chief of the Batavian army in Dutch East Indies. He was actually planning to arrested Daendels when he arrived in the Indies, but I think before he can do that, Daendels sent him back to homeland for being too old in the army? (istg I read this somewhere but I forgot 🫠)

Back to Lebrun, on August 20 1810, he wrote the most horrible things abt Daendels to Napoleon. Lebrun also agreed to replace Daendels. He wrote this to Napoleon.

“There is a French officer here, a brigadier general, a brother of Rouget de Lille, the author I believe of the Marseillaise. He was supposed to go to Batavia with Daendels, but was captured during the crossing. I believe he can be trusted.”

Napoleon responded w this.

“I don't know who Rouget de Lille's brother is. I think I'm going to send a Dutchman.”

September 6 : “Because of the language I want to send – from Saint Malo – Dutch troops, a small battalion with four companies of 120 men each. Find good officers for me. Send me Daendels' correspondence.”

At this point, I feel like Napoleon had been influenced by those ppl that Daendels is bad. Not long after this Napoleon sent Denis Decres, a French minister to Holland. According to him, Daendels must be replaced immediately.

And finally at November 16, 1810, Napoleon made his decision to send Janssens to Java, his salary (500.000 francs) were 3 times higher than Daendels. At November 24, 1810, Decres officially wrote a resignation letter to Daendels on behalf of Napoleon.

“The Emperor has informed himself of your correspondence, especially your letters to the king. The king had an unpleasant feeling left by your letter of November 30 last year. The poor state of your health was the reason for him to send you a successor. He thought it was good for you to give you some peace after a few years in the bad climate of Java.”

Decres was js yapping reasons imo as I never found any evidence so far abt Daendels complaining being ill or anything but anway-

On May 16 1811, Daendels handed his stuff to Janssens who had js arrived in the Dutch East Indies. While all this were happening, Napoleon was informed on how they (I assumed are soldiers) saw that Daendels had served the French well.

“The French flag flies everywhere in this colony. Daendels has implemented the change with caution and wisdom”

“I have seen the most beautiful country in the world. No one in Europe has any idea about this. Daendels has achieved great things in a short time. In times of war, he was completely on his own. He restored authority, built up an army without help from abroad and built major roads so that communication, transport of troops and ammunition is possible from one end of the island to the other [more than 1000 kilometers].”

“When we arrived in this country, we found the French flag on all the forts. General Daendels had made everyone swear the oath of allegiance to the emperor and that went very solemnly. You cannot imagine how active this general is and what he has done for the service of the colony."

When Daendels returned back to France on November 1811, he met Decres. After having an interview w him, Decres told Napoleon that they had made a mistake for replacing Daendels as he had done much better than they had heard/assumed. Not long after this, Janssens in the Indies had failed to protect the attack of the British and Dutch East Indies was later ruled by Raffles.

That's all for now ^^ I'm sorry if there is misinformation due to translation 🙏 Feel free to correct me or if u know more, pls do tell me 🫶 This topic to me kinda made me feel angry at Napoleon for js believing those ppl so easily without thinking twice 😮‍💨 The fact that Janssens ended up js giving away Dutch East Indies so easily to the British was the worst part. If Daendels replacement were at least the same level as him then maybe it would be a different story but- 😭😭 I feel bad for Daendels at this part 😕 Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this n if y'all have any questions, feel free to ask🫡 I'll try to answer them. Thank you guys for reading this n have a great day!! 🌙

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Louis Bonaparte appreciation post

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“Let the dead bury their dead, for thus only can it discover its own true meaning.”

— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte