#emperors france

[bookloversofbath]

Napoleon the Great :: Andrew Roberts

[illustratus]

Napoleon in Amsterdam by Charles Rochussen

[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

[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.

[butchniqabi]

napoleon 2023 sucks btw

[johnbrownfangrl]

First not John Brown post???

THE ICE CREAM MAN HIMSELF??

[illustratus]

Charlemagne and Roland by Édouard François Zier

[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

[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.

[beardedmrbean]

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

So, multiple sources have reported to the French newspaper Le Monde the president Macron telling them that he had been planning the chaos going on rn for months, that he is delighted to see French politics crumble. Most people already knew he was well aware of wtf he was doing, but having the confirmation is something else. (especially the reveal that it's just because if his ego)

This is, imo, high treason. A president is supposed to serve and protect the country and its people, that's not what he has done. He is putting France in great risk just to please his own ego. Like a captain who knows it's his last voyage and prefers to take the ship down than to let another in charge. If he leaves the boat, than it better sinks. He planned to put France and its politics on fire, then to watch it burn. He destroyed our rights and our country, and it was all just a power trip to bring the country down.

Good things for us, things are not going as bad as he hoped it would (he thought the left would not be able to stand together), but it doesn't change the fact that he has helped the far-right rise in the country because he wants to watch it burn.