#Napoleon and Marie Louise

[napoleondidthat]

My assassination at Schonbrunn would have been less fatal than my marriage to Marie-Louise.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

[empirearchives]

Louise and Nana

[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

[historicconfessions]

[crazykotyara12]

But there was a twist

The original reference:

[psycheswrathsposts]

Marie Louise Duchess of Parma in the 1955 Napoleon Movie

[natasyart]

Can anyone explain to me how Marie relationship with her son, Napoleon II? I really want to know why people hate her but I found no source in google 😔😔

[suburbanbeatnik]

I was interested about Napoleon ii , and do you think the reason or in part why his mother Marie Louise neglectfully treated him that way, was because of his French/ Corsican heritage, her Austrian prejudice upbringing against the French/Napoleon ? That’s would make sense on her having them (at times forcefully) assimilate him even altering his name.

Hmm, I think it's definitely possible. What do you think, @bunniesandbeheadings?

[kririawhahha]

Napoleons son :3! 1!1!

original version under the cut

[captainknell]

I know I've seen this actual photograph of Marie Louise before but I just saw it again and it's blowing my mind. She was Napoleon's wife. And there's a photograph. 🤯

[napoleondidthat]

When you have to pick up your horse from valet parking.

[empirearchives]

Gown and train of Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte

(Bust of Napoleon and painting of Marie Louise in the background)

Museo Glauco Lombardi

[mvchiavelli]

Some moodboards purely on vibes and lore ;)

plz don't attack me, made these because I'm distracted on my jojo phase againnn but perfume pt2 soon ig

also uploaded these on pinterest so yush

[microcosme11]

The Comtesse de Boigne likes the Emperor a little more this time

The Comtesse de Boigne was an émigrée. She later had a famous salon in Paris. These memoirs were only published many years after her death while her relatives waited for most of the people in it to die.

Some years afterwards I was present as an onlooker at a ball given upon the occasion of the baptism of the King of Rome. [...] The Emperor, followed by his escort, crossed the room as he arrived to reach the platform which occupied the back. He walked first with such speed that almost everybody, not excepting the Empress, was almost obliged to run to keep up with him. Dignity and grace were thus out of the question, but this rustling of skirts and rapid pace seemed to symbolise a dominant power which suited him. It was magnificent, though not in our way.

He seemed, indeed, the master of all this magnificence. He was no longer in his imperial costume, and the simple uniform which he alone wore in the midst of all this full dress made him a yet more striking figure, and spoke more loudly to the imagination than all the gold lace in the world. He was anxious to be gracious and kind, and made a far better impression upon me than at the other ball.

The Empress Marie Louise was a fine woman, fresh in appearance, but somewhat too red. Notwithstanding her dress and her precious stones, she seemed very vulgar and entirely without distinction.

I saw there the Princess Borghese, who seemed to me the most ravishing beauty that I had ever looked upon: to all her perfections was added the air of candid maidenhood as complete as any young girl could have, though if history is to be believed, no one ever had less right to it.

Memoires of the comtesse de Boigne by Louise-Eleonore-Charlotte-Adelaide d'Osmond de Boigne, 1781-1866. Published 1907.

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[bunniesandbeheadings]

I know I’ve rambled a lot about how Marie Louise was a bad mother

And she was.

But, I just want to say…if she was a bad wife?

Whatever.

Seriously whatever.

She was forced to marry Napoleon against her will. She signed up for none of that shit.

And she tries to be loyal to him! She does! I think she did love him very much, actually.

But you read things in her biographies like, “her Austrian family tried to turn her against Napoleon by telling her that he had cheated on her.”

And, it’s like…

They’re not wrong?

Napoleon did in fact cheat on her all the time.

“Her Austrian family told her that he had welcomed his mistress to Elba, just so she wouldn’t join him on Elba!” Cool cool. But did Napoleon, or did Napoleon not, welcome his mistress to Elba?

Exactly.

I hate on Marie Louise for being a bad mother.

But in regards to her being a bad wife?

That’s literally queen behavior.

Empress behavior.

If Napoleon hadn’t been a sack of shit husband maybe she would’ve been a better wife to him.

[josefavomjaaga]

Napoleon on a hunt, by Carle Vernet.

Look at all those courageous folks, standing so close while Napoleon is firing... (though some people on the right seem to be hiding behind the trees - Masséna?)