#Louis Napoléon

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A gift for @all-yn-oween :)

First time drawing Gilles :D

About the caption: yes, it was inspired by the title of one of the Astérix BDs 😅 I've always liked this title a lot, so why not do something inspired by it?

Plus bonus sketches:

Anyway, have a good day 🥳

[all-yn-oween]

Happy Valentine’s Day! With the Gossip Queens of course…

I might do some more of these, they’re funny to do >:)

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Bienvenue sur le compte Tumblr de France Bonapartiste

Notre histoire nationale est depuis de trop longues années déjà mise à l’écart au profit de la connaissance européenne et mondiale. Nous ne pouvons pourtant bâtir les fondations de l’avenir sur des bases instables, en méconnaissance de notre passé. Souvent il a été glorieux, parfois il a été sombre. Les personnages historiques qui ont façonné notre pays doivent être sorti de l’ombre et leurs actions doivent être pleinement étudiées, sans raccourcis qui pourraient nous perdre dans de funestes horizons.

Par ce cercle de réflexion historique, nous souhaitons ainsi embrasser notre récit national pour comprendre quels ont été les chemins glorieux et les sentiers escarpés.

Nous souhaitons partager avec vous ces heures éblouissantes qui ont fait la France ; la Révolution française et le souffle nouveau qu’a apporté notre Nation à l’Europe voire même au monde entier, dans ses heures éclatantes mais aussi et parfois dans ses moments les plus sombres ; la naissance et l’œuvre phénoménale de l’homme providentiel en la personne de Napoléon Bonaparte qu’elle soit militaire, architecturale, diplomatique comme politique et qui a mené par son génie la France sur le toit du monde ; la vision et le profond attachement de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte avec les Français qui l’élisent premier président de la République française en 1848 et qui deviendra l’Empereur Napoléon III aux réalisations sociales ayant données le « la » à nos droits sociaux actuels ; les deux guerres mondiales ayant apporté la terreur mais qui a vu également émerger des figures héroïques telles De Gaulle, Jean Moulin, Simone Veil, Joséphine Baker et tant d’autres, qui représentent par-delà leur personne, la France.

Il n’est point question d’effacer des pans entiers de notre histoire nationale, mais au contraire de la mettre en lumière et d’en étudier toutes les facettes pour comprendre comment notre Nation s’est aujourd’hui constituée !

Ce compte tumblr se veut être le pendant de notre site internet, afin que nous puissions partager sur ce réseau social de différents articles, photos, analyses et découvrir des comptes fascinants.

N'hésitez pas à nous suivre !

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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.

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France during the Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise (Album du mariage de Marie-Louise et Napoléon Ier)

By Louis-Pierre Baltard — On the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, an illustrator, Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764-1846), undertook to retrace the ceremonies and festivals of the spring of 1810 and to make it the subject of an album drawn of eighteen sheets.

Images:

Illumination du Panthéon

Vue de l'Hôtel de Ville illuminé avec la tribune Impériale construite pour la circonstance

Illumination du pont de la Concorde et du Palais du Corps Législatif

Le Retour du cortège par la Galerie du Musée

Feu d'artifices et son décor élevé de l'autre de la Seine, quai Napoléon

Festin dans la deuxième salle provisoire construite dans la cour de l'Ecole Militaire

Le Banquet Impérial dans la salle de spectateur des Tuileries

Ascension en ballon de madame Blanchard

Ballet des danseurs de l'Opéra dans la salle de bal de l'Ecole Militaire

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At St Jean d'Acre, the grenadiers Daumesnil and Souchon cover Bonaparte with their bodies to protect him from the shrapnel of a bomb blast.

by Louis Charles Bombled

[senechalum]

Hi! I love your drawings of Napoleon and Junot 😁 since you already drew them maybe you can do junot/napoleon/marmont ~ :33

Hello !

Thank you very very much, I really hope to draw them a lot more asap because I love both of them very much too !! <3

I tried my best to draw "quickly" (well... as fast as I can do) a picture of the three of them when they were younger ! I really hope I understood the assignment... 👉👈

I still hope you will like it !!

[duchesssoflennox]

”In the Arms of Empires: The Tender Tableaux of Napoleonic Motherhood”✨️❤️🤍

Napoleon-Era Maternal Portraits That Stole Hearts💗💗💗

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studio portrait of Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial

circa 1875

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Automne 1917, Hylewood, Canada (8/9)

Depuis le début de la guerre, la scène politique en Ontario est profondément influencée par les orangistes, qui sont fidèles à la monarchie et à l'Empire britannique. Les grands journaux de Toronto critiquent les Canadiens français pour ne pas contribuer à l'effort de guerre, et on nous impose depuis juillet le service militaire obligatoire… Quand on voit les efforts déployés par le R22eR, je trouve cela honteux.

A cause de sa politique francophobe, Ontario est la risée du Québec. Ils nous appellent « nos Boches à nous » et nous surnomment "Huntario", en référence aux invasions de peuples nomades au Moyen Âge… Quand on voit comment les Anglophones nous traitent, on comprend que nous soyons presque unanimement opposés à ce service et qu'il existe un si faible sentiment de loyauté des francophones pour le Canada.

Sur l’île, si on enlève ceux qui sont déjà en service, cette loi concernerait cinq hommes : mon beau-frère (alors qu’il a trois enfants, pensez-vous !), le mari de ma nièce Winie, le frère du jeune Zéphir (dont les malheureux parents font toujours le deuil), le Révérend de l’île (un homme d’église !), et un neveu de mon beau-frère. Cette loi n’est pas encore appliquée. Des élections fédérales vont avoir lieu en décembre, et nous en sauront davantage après cela.

[Transcription] Marie Le Bris : Sincèrement, Agathon, es-tu obligé de te montrer ainsi en spectacle ? On dirait que tu t’es coiffé avec un balais brosse. Si j’avais des cheveux comme les tiens, j’aurais au moins la décence de mettre une casquette. Winifred Bernard : Irène, chérie, ne court pas trop loin ! Jules Le Bris : Tout va bien, ma nièce ? Winifred Bernard : Bonsoir, mon oncle. J’aimerais profiter de ma soirée, mais mon aînée m’échappe comme une anguille. Eugénie Le Bris : Ah, les enfants, à cet âge là. Winifred Bernard : A qui le dites-vous ! Elle court partout, et je n’ai pas une minute de répit. Mais je ne peux pas la laisser sans surveillance. Jules Le Bris : Marie, toi qui te plaignais de t’ennuyer, ne veux-tu pas aller jouer avec ta cousine ? Marie Le Bris : C’est que je commence à m’habituer à l’ennui, et je tombe de sommeil, regardez comme mes yeux sont lourds. Non, je suis mieux ici. Eugénie Le Bris : Agathon, va jouer avec Irène. Vous avez pratiquement le même âge. Winifred Bernard : Laissez, Eugénie, Marie a raison, il se fait tard et la petite est fatiguée. C’est probablement pour cela qu’elle est si excitée. Je devrais rentrer la coucher. Quel dommage, je m’amusais beaucoup…

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Marseille, le MuCEM et sa nouvelle collection permanente (à mes yeux, bien plus intéressante et mieux présentée que la précédente…)

Suite et fin, enfin !!!

carreaux de revêtement - Kosiv, Ukraine, XXe s.

pichet en l'honneur de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte - Aisne ou Somme, 1850. "Louis-Napoléon est un bon républicain...". Certains sont visionnaires, d'autres.....

plat - Picardie, 1600

terrine à pâté - Maine-et-Loire, 1800

pichet de noces - Bals, Olténie, Roumanie, fin XXe s. ; femme, ateliers de Marie Talbot - La Borne, Cher, 1838

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[lidensword]

A gift for my dear friend, @all-yn-oween !! <33

I heard you liked Good Omens, and, although I haven't watched the series, I thought Gustave and Louis would look nice dressed as Crowley and Aziraphale :]

Bonus:

Inspired by the original meme and your fic, The Gossip Queens ;)

Enjoy your day!!!

[all-yn-oween]

Some drawings of OCs :’)

(We can see a new comer in the up left corner, but shhhh :)

I also took references for most of them!

[stephendedalus]

Saint-Just dans Napoléon (1927) réalisé par Abel Gance

[nordleuchten]

24 Days of La Fayette: December 11th - Jean-Louis and Jacques-Alexandre Romeuf

Jean-Louis Romeuf (and his younger brother Alexandre) have a special place on this list, because they are thus far La Fayette’s only aide-de-camps that served him during his commands in France. None of the two has ever been to America, neither during the War for Independence nor later on.

Jean-Louis Romeuf was born on September 27, 1766 to Barthélemy Romeuf. He had three brothers, Claude Romeuf, the oldest of the brothers, the l’Abbe Romeuf, the second oldest, who long served as the canon of the cathedral Saint-Flour, and Jacques-Alexandre. The Romeuf’s hailed, just like the La Fayette’s, from the Auvergne in France. It appears as if there had been more children and possible more brothers, but the book Nobiliaire d'Auvergne by Jean-Baptiste Bouillet served as my main source and only featured these four children.

Jean-Louis first entered the army in 1789 when he became an aide-de-camp to General la Fayette who had just been elected commander of the newly formed National Guard. Romeuf had been commissioned a captain in September of 1791 but continued on his current post until he left France alongside La Fayette and a number of other officers in 1792. He was among the unlucky man captured by the Austrians. Adrienne de La Fayette wrote a letter to George Washington in French on October 8, 1792. Tobias Lear translated the letter for Washington and John Dyson made three copies in French. One copy features a postscript that is not found in Lear’s translation or in one of Dyson’s other copies. It reads in parts:

Messr Maubourg, M. Bureau de Puzy et M. la Colombe qui a l’avantage d’avoir servi les Etats Unis meritent d’être distingués parmi les Compagnons d’infortune. Messrs Romeuf, Pillet, Masson, Curmeer les deux jeunes frères de M. Maubourg sont au nombre des Prisonniers, et ont tout le droit possible, à l’interêt le plus tendre par leur attachement à Monsr Lafayette depuis le commencement de la Revolution.

Endnotes of “To George Washington from the Marquise de Lafayette, 8 October 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 16 August 1792 – 15 January 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 204–207.] (02/10/2022)

My translation:

Messr Maubourg, Mr. Bureau de Puzy and Mr. la Colombe who has the advantage of having served the United States deserve to be distinguished among the Companions in misfortune. Messrs Romeuf, Pillet, Masson, Curmeer the two young brothers of M. Maubourg are among the number of prisoners, and have every possible right, to the most tender interest by their attachment to Monsr Lafayette since the beginning of the Revolution.

While Jean-Louis Romeuf was imprisoned alongside La Fayette and some of the other officers, I struggle to determine the exact duration of his detention. It is possible that Romeuf even was held at Olmütz. He was however released long before La Fayette because Romeuf managed to play an important part in the Marquis’ release. Jules Germain Cloquet described the scene in his book:

Louis de Romeuf formerly, aide-de-camp to Lafayette, arrived, after some difficulty, from the army at Vienna. He had been sent by Generals Bonaparte and Clarke to have a direct explanation with the Baron de Thugut, the prime minister of Austria. After much negotiation, the minister at last consented to the liberation of the prisoners on condition “that the American consul at Hamburgh would promise to do his utmost to engage them to quit the territory belonging to the imperial jurisdiction within ten days after their arrival at Hamburgh, to which city they were to be escorted.“ Romeuf gave an account of his mission to Generals Bonaparte and Clarke, and also to the Director Barthélemy. He obtained the promise asked of the American consul and was at length enabled, after fresh difficulties to announce that on the 23d September 1797, Lafayette and his friends had been set at liberty.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 58.

After La Fayette’s release, Romeuf spend the winter of 1797/98 with the La Fayette’s in exile in Danish-Holstein before returning to France. La Fayette rote to George Washington on August 20-21, 1798:

Among the friends who Can give me Minute information is My former Aid de Camp Louïs Romeuf who after Having past the winter with me is now in Bonaparte’s Staff.

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 20–21 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 539–545.] (02/10/2022)

When La Fayette returned to France, it was Jacques-Alexandre Romeuf in his turn, who helped his former General out. Virginie wrote in her book:

She [Adrienne] wished him [La Fayette] to return ere time had brought the slightest change, and without any other authorization than the liberal intentions then proclaimed by the new government. She obtained a passport for him under an assumed name, and M. Alexandre Romeuf one of his former aid de camps brought it to him.

Mme de Lasteyrie, Life of Madame de Lafayette, L. Techener, London, 1872, p. 381-382.

Jacques-Alexandre was born on November 19, 1772 and just like his brother joined La Fayette’s staff in 1790 as a capitaine aide-de-camp. He was not imprisoned along with La Fayette and his brother.

After the end of the French Revolution, the career of the two Romeuf brothers began to prosper. Jean-Louis participated in the expedition to Egypt with the rank of a Chef d’escadron and worked as an aide-de-camp to General Matthieu Dumas. He fought with the Army of the Reserve and served under Generals Brune and Macdonald. He then went on to serve under Maréchal Davoust in 1802 at Bruges and Boulongne as an adjutant-commander. Napoléon I created him Commander of the Legion of Honor and appointed him Governor General of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1808. In May of the same year, the King of Saxony awarded him the Order of Saint-Henri. He was created a baron in 1809 after the Battle of Regensburg. He was commissioned a Brigadier-General and worked as the Chief of Staff in the Army of Germany and then in the First Corps of the Grand Army, commanded by the prince of Eckmulh.

Jean-Louis Romeuf went with Napoléon I to Russia and was killed by a cannon ball during the Siege/Battle of Moscow on September 7, 1812.

La Fayette wrote to his friend Amé Thérèse Joseph Masclet Masclet on April 7, 1813:

The Russian campaign has been particularly fatal to me. You have no doubt shared my regret for the loss of my dear Louis Romeuf, -- a misfortune which I shall never cease to deplore. We have also lost my nephew Alfred Noailles, to whom I was attached by so many feelings and recollections. Victor Tracy has been taken prisoner, as well as my poor friend Boinville, who was obliged to undergo the amputation of all his toes. My cousin, Octave Ségur, was also taken prisoner at the commencement of the campaign.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 41.

Since Jean-Louis was unmarried and childless, Napoléon I allowed that his titles were transferred to his oldest nephew, Jules Romeuf, the son of his brother Claude.

Jacques-Alexandre Romeuf joined the newly formed Army of Naples in 1806 as a Squadron-Commander and was chosen as his aide-de-camp by general Dumas. By 1807 he was Chief-of-Staff to General Donzelot and was awarded the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies. In 1810 he was commissioned Adjutant-general and became a Commander of the Order of the Two Sicilies.

Joachim Murat chose Romeuf as his aide-de-camp to accompany him to Russia and so Jacques-Alexandre was with his brother Jean-Louis, when the latter died on September 7, 1812. On December 5, 1812, Jacques-Alexandre was named an Officer of the Legion of Honor. He left the Army of Naples in 1814 and returned to France. He was made Chevalier de Saint Louis on August 20, 1814 by the government of the First Restauration and quitted the army on September 9, 1814.

Just like his brother, he was made a baron, but this time by King Louis XVIII in 1817. It was also King Louis XVIII who appointed Romeuf as a Commander of the Legion of Honor.

Unlike his brother, Jacques-Alexandre had married, a woman by the name of Françoise Gosselin. The couple had one surviving son. Romeuf died on April 26, 1845 in Paris.

Jacque-Alexandre’s Acte de Décès is in the État civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859) of the city of Paris:

Paris Archives, État civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859), Cote 5Mi1 1330, p. 40-41. (10/03/2022)

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So I was giggling at Napoleon’s signature here and how odd his handwriting is.

The content of letter was less funny. It was a condolence letter from Napoleon to Berthier:

“My cousin, I share in your pain. The loss of a father is always sensitive. I know you and I understand your sorrows […]”

"Mon cousin je prends part à votre douleur. la perte d'un pere est toujours sensible. je vous connais et je comprends vos peines (...)" Saint-Cloud, 3 prairial an XII (23 mai 1804).

Source: Sotheby’s — Une famille et Napoléon, Collections du Maréchal Berthier, Prince de Wagram