#Napoleon’s death

[empirearchives]

Marie Louise’s reaction to Napoleon’s death

“I am just now in great uncertainty. The Gazette of Piedmont has announced in such a positive manner the death of the Emperor Napoleon, that it is hardly possible to doubt it any longer. I confess I was extremely startled at it, though I have never had any deep feelings of any kind for him. I cannot forget that he is the father of my son and that, far from behaving badly to me, as every one believes, he always showed me every consideration—the only thing one can look for in a political marriage. I was therefore very grieved at it and, though one should be glad that he has ended his unhappy life in a Christian manner, I could still have wished him many more years of happiness and life—provided that it was far away from me. In the uncertainty about it I have settled myself at Sala, not wishing to go to the theater till I know something positive. My health has become so frail that I have felt this shock.”

— Marie Louise’s letter to Countess Victoire (1821)

Source: Compiled by Charles A. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together With Numerous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Characters of People and Their Rulers

Marie Louise, deeply upset at not being informed of the news by her family in Vienna:

“I confess that what gave me most sorrow, in these circumstances, was that I had not had any official news, nor any private, friendly letter from Vienna—the only way by which such could reach me in safety. I confess that I expected more interest and affection on that side, and it gave me a cruel blow by showing me how little one can count on all one’s own people, and this grief can only be cured by time.”

Source: Edith E. Cuthell, An Imperial Victim: Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, Empress of the French, Duchess of Parma

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[michel-feuilly]

I try not to idealize even my favorite historical figures. Especially if these figures are military men.

Ney punished the Spanish guerrillas very cruelly during the Peninsular Wars, and this cannot be denied. So I wanted to draw this.

This does not mean that I do not like the historical figure I have chosen. Ney is a very important person for me, who has seriously influenced my life, but I try not to idealize him.

[diioonysus]

"A death mask is a likeness of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits.

The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages until the 19th century was to serve as a model for sculptors in creating statues and busts of the deceased person. Not until the 1800s did such masks become valued for themselves.

In other cultures a death mask may be a funeral mask, an image placed on the face of the deceased before burial rites, and normally buried with them. The best known of these are the masks used in ancient Egypt as part of the mummification process, such as the mask of Tutankhamun, and those from Mycenaean Greece such as the Mask of Agamemnon."

[bunniesandbeheadings]

If you don’t know, a death note is a magic notebook and if you write someone’s name in it, they die. You can also control them before death if you wanna have fun!

*Define “trust” how you want. “Trust” them to use it well? “Trust” them to not use it at all? “Trust” them to do something funny? Define your terms at your comfort level.

[mewji13775266]

im so sleepy, i might just fall asleep

[thatsbelievable]

[isa-ko]

In my opinion, Soult’s hairstyle on the right is the most superior

[illustratus]

Napoleon on his Deathbed by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

[friedrich-2]

"Because she is mine, she is going to die."

Friedrich Wilhelm III's words upon hearing of the very bad conditions his wife, Queen Luise of Prussia, is in, shortly before her death.

This text also says that the news struck him so hard he went more or less into shock, and his adjutants had to force water down his throat to get him out of his "paralysing numbness" and that those were the only words he managed to get out.

Then, shortly after the news got to him and right before he would meet her and be with her until her death, he hastily scribbled these words down:

(Loosley translated): Today's news threaten me with destruction. Is she gone! - So I am gone- Just because of her I still cling to life. She is my everything! My entire, my only happiness on earth. But God will hear my utmost prayer and save me from this loss. My whole mind is shattered, I just have this single thought of her, everything with her, nothing without her! ... With trembles am I thinking of the reunion. It deems life- or death. O. No, no. Mercy, mercy, this strike would be more awful and horrible as anything that could ever hit me, if we could just stay together, then let us be punished as God deems fit. Amen! Amen! Amen! Charlottenburg 18th of July 1810.

Yeah. Can you hear me cry in the corner?

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) "The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia in 1812" (1826) Oil on canvas Romanticism Located in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

[empirearchives]

The news of Napoleon’s death reached London on 4 July 1821 and Paris the day after. On 6 July, there was an incident at the French Parliament: an ultra-Royalist MP called Napoleon ‘the usurper’ before being silenced by a Liberal who shouted: ‘he is dead!’

— Olivier Feignier, Byron’s “Dithyramb on the Death of Napoleon��� and the lessons of apocryphal works

[oldbooklover]

the death mask of napoleon, published in das ewige antlitz, 1927

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

Cursed marmont doodle dump

What can I say....I was in a drawing mood 😭

I assaulted the discord server with these 💀💀💀

Will you guys ever forgive me ? 🥺

Ps. Vicenzo Dandolo tea is explained in the comments

[ciderbird]

every time

[akaryotic]

part 3 (1, 2)because i finally finished the books :D

a lot of the books? really good. a solid few of them? really terrible. reccommend giving them a shot though i <3 these books. will probably upload the statistics ive been keeping in a few days when i get a chance to sort them out/double check them

+ The Margarine Saga (the invisibility affair fucking rules okay)