#emperors france

[bookloversofbath]

Napoleon the Great :: Andrew Roberts

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Charlemagne anxiously observes the approach of ships carrying Norman raiders by Alphonse de Neuville

[empirearchives]

I am now imagining Napoleon monkey hunting in America and eating coconuts to reflect on his past greatness

[marzipanandminutiae]

a book series that makes use of "anachronistic" language in a way that really feels organic for the period, IMO, is Piratica by Tanith Lee

set in an explicitly alternate universe c. 1810, the first book managed to include the sentence "Well, groovy, thou art a klutz," and make it sound 100% Golden Age of PiracyTM. even though the author used words from wildly different eras, she captured the cadence of 18th/early 19th century working-class/criminal slang so well that I literally just had to look up whether "groovy" was an older word than I previously thought

god those books were so good. I should reread them

[occvltswim]

❝Sultane Noire (1748)❞ — Joseph-Marie Vien (French, 1716–1809)

[boneyagainsttheworld]

Why do you think Boney is crying here?

I aspect mainly silly answers 😆

Art by Charles Henri Pille

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)

03/10/2025

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck as Napoleon Bonaparte - Conquerors - Real Ducks in History - Ducktales, Duck comics and Quack Pack - History in Duckverse

I’m posting some of my drawings that I’ve done before, this time related to history and one by one where our famous Duckverse ducks play famous historical figures. See more about it here: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/749604818515050496/donald-duck-as-napoleon-bonaparte-scrooge-mcduck

I’ve always wanted to do a special project called Duckverse in History and my plan is to draw my favorite characters as redraws from famous works of art as well as famous historical figures. And since history is my favorite science, and my favorite field, I definitely wanted to do something related to it and related to one of my favorite historical characters. Since I don’t want to complicate the situation, I will gradually publish a drawing related to that historical figure from time to time. I started this last year for Duckvember only to finish at the end of April.

This drawing is a redraw from Jacques Louis David’s famous early 19th century artwork depicting Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps in 1800 before the Battle of Marengo. Napoleon Bonaparte was the most famous French military leader, general, consul and emperor who waged war with all of Europe at the time and managed to subjugate it in its entirety except for the Ottoman Empire, Russia and Great Britain. He is from Corsica, but he left a lot for France and proved that France is not worth messing with easily. He also gave many reforms and his Civil Code which spread throughout Europe and brought order in France after the French Revolution. Napoleon’s nature is very similar to Donald Duck and I drew Donald as Napoleon since he was created for that role and I drew him riding his horse Marengo in my own style, but in a realistic way and that Donald has five fingers.

Napoleon Bonaparte was the greatest French military leader born on August 15, 1768 in Corsica, died on May 5, 1821 on the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. He had the greatest number of victories, was the first consul of France from 1799 to 1804, then the emperor from 1804 to 1814, then the leader of France in 1815 until he was defeated at Waterloo. He changed Europe significantly. Donald Duck looks a lot like Napoleon, that's why I drew him. I plan to draw him as Napoleon in the future.

I certainly hope you like this drawing and this idea and that these characters have such historical roles. Of course, Duckverse in history I combine mostly everything related to Duckverse (Donald Duck comics, OG Ducktales, Three Caballeros, Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack) and it’s mostly my version and my idea. By all means if you like this and support these ideas, feel free to like and reblog this, but please don’t use these same ideas without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you!

And music on the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgKll_1JgPQ

[royalty-nobility]

Napoleon I of France

Artist: Andrea Appiani (Italian, 1754–1817)

Date: 1805

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815. He was the leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then of the French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814, and briefly again in 1815.

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ The Emperor Sailing, from The Story of the Emperor of China

Artist: Guy-Louis Vernansal

Place of origin: Beauvais, France

Date: 1716–1722

Medium: Wool, silk, and silvered- and-gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with some areas of 2:2 plain interlacings of silvered-and-gilt-metal wefts.

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[empirearchives]

“The women are everywhere—plays, public walks, libraries. You can see pretty women in the scholar’s study room. . . . A woman, in order to know what is due her and what power she has, must live in Paris for six months.”

— Napoleon in a letter to his brother, Joseph

Source: J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon

[butchniqabi]

napoleon 2023 sucks btw

[johnbrownfangrl]

First not John Brown post???

THE ICE CREAM MAN HIMSELF??

[thekingofwinterblog]

So the newest Napoleon movie was shit, but it did highlight one aspect of Napoleon's character that doeant get enough love.

Which was that the man knew how to dress.

In an age where the damn black and white penguin dress is what western men are stuck with as the only acceptable proper kind of clothing(thanks prince of Wales) its sometimes hard to believe there was a time when respected, malr western fashion could be colorful, snazzy and visually appealing.

And Napoleon certainly knew how to dress to inspire his troops, generally withouth going so far into bling that he made it look gaudy, like a lot of his contemporaries.

Which brings us to his biggest fashion disaster. His coeonation outfits.

Like... Why? He usually dressed great, but then for your coronation, arguably the most important symbolic moment of his life, Napoleon threw away absolutely everything he knew about making himself look good, abandoning the French fashion, he himself had played a huge role in making, in favor of trying to dress like europe's kings had dressed a century or two before.

Like, imagine you're napoleon, and in an ultimate power statement, during your own coronation, rather than be crowned by the pope, you took it from his hands and crowned yourself... And you did it, dressed like this.

No wonder even his own troops, who loved him thought he looked absolutely ridiculous and out of touch.

Oh, and speaking of his crown, look at this thing! It looks spindly, and overly detailed, yet withouth anything that makes it look regal.

THIS was the crown Napoleon envisioned to represent the French Empire, the masters of europe. This dinky little thing.

It honestly looks like a budget crown, where he needed a crown asap with a limited budget and material, and so this thing was slapped together for his coronation.

Just compare it to the british crown of the time, which yes, has it's own problems(that arc could easily have been trimmed down so it looked much better) but it has an identity, regalness, and looks like it belongs on the head of a mighty, and prestigious monarch, as opposed to Napoleon's crown.