#joséphine de beauharnais

[myrcella-lannister]

VANESSA KIRBY AS JOSÉPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS Costume designers: Janty Yates and David Crossman NAPOLEON (2023)

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Napoleon Planning his Coronation by Jehan Georges Vibert

[aedesluminis]

In this Reddit thread about Joséphine I read this interesting comment:

There are no sources quoted besides some vague references to A. Roberts' Napoleon biography.

Does someone here who is knowledgeable about Joséphine knows more about the poor treatment both her and her children's received from Alexandre de Beauharnais?

[calimera62]

hello ⚘️ I really love to say that napoleon bonaparte is very handsome and pretty I don't care about his height 🥰🥰 and that because hate Josephine because her cheating hoe could she doing that his such baby 😢😢

Like Julius Caesar, I don’t think Napoléon Bonaparte would be considered handsome by our society’s standard. Though he looked quite sicklish with a bit of yellowish complexion in his youth, he became healthier when he became First Consul. He was said to have a charming smile and lively blue-gray eyes (people described his “piercing gaze that went right through you”), an aquiline profile, and Jacques Louis David was fascinated with Napoléon’s “classically structured face”. He was considered handsome in his time I believe.

If you wish to know how he looked like, this post is very interesting.

Some actors portraying Napoléon were also quite handsome! My favourite is Daniel Mesguich. Just look at him!

The general belief of Napoléon being short is a pet peeves of mine, because he wasn’t as short as legend as led us to believe. He was actually 1,69 m tall (the equivalent to 5’5), which was the average height for his time. While he was called Le petit caporal (which you can translate as “the little corporal”), it was not meant as a reflection of his stature but more a term of affection by his soldiers. Napoléon also liked to surround himself by his troops and his guards, which he chose to be very tall men, so of course he would look very short in comparison. Alas, we can also thank our English friends for this belief as well. I believe it was largely the work of a British cartoonist who caricatured Napoléon as a small man in the 19th century, and his works were very popular and influential.

As for Napoléon and Joséphine, I do love their relationship a lot, even though it wasn’t an ideal one. Joséphine seemed bemused by his love for her at first, she used him because she needed him, and she did cheat on him and they almost divorced in the early years of their marriage but they stayed together and settled into a more mature relationship where Joséphine grew up to have a genuine affection for him and Napoléon always loved Joséphine, even if he had to divorce her, though that didn’t stop him from cheating on her multiple times. Like I said, their relationship wasn’t perfect, but I still love them!

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil Painting, 1790, French.

By Michel Garnier.

Portraying Josephine de Beauharnais (later Empress Josephine), in a blue redingote and red headscarf.

Murphy Raclin Museum of Art.

[waifu-napoleon]

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“Listen I can't explain it to you but I was obsessed with them as a kid and it never went away. Baby's first real person ship”

[7pleiades7]

The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of the Empress Joséphine in Notre-Dame Cathedral on 2 December, 1804 (completed in 1807), (detail), by Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825), oil on canvas, 6.21 m × 9.79 m, The Louvre Museum, Paris

[francebonapartiste]

Joséphine de Beauharnais

[otdhistoricalbirthdays]

Happy birthday to Joséphine de Beauharnais! (June 23rd, 1763)

[lilysfroggies]

Anniversary of Joséphine Bonaparte’s Death

Rest in Peace 💐

[philoursmars]

Il y a une petite quinzaine, je suis allé avec Julien et Katie, au Louvre-Lens pour une expo temporaire : “Animaux Fantastiques”. Une très belle expo ! Ici des griffons :

griffon en bronze - Athènes, 650 av. J-C.

rhyton, griffon - Italie du sud, 300 av. J-C.

bijou en or et argent, à tête de griffon - Rhodes, 600 av. J-C.

pied de meuble avec protomé de griffon en bronze - Iran ou Irak, 600 apr. J-C.

bracelet aux griffons en or et albâtre - origine inconnue, 1500-100 av. J-C.

les 2 derniers : François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter -fauteuil de l'impératrice Joséphine

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Reception at Malmaison in 1802 by François Flemeng

[adelemadouce]

Voilà!

Sometimes you just have to look more closely in your own books! Adèle had participated in the coronation ceremony of Napoléon. In the drawing of Isabey she is carrying an amphora, perhaps with the oil of anointing?! I still have to find out...

Video: by me

[michelle-blue]

...I have not spent a day without loving you; I have not spent a night without clasping you in my arms; I have not drunk a cup of tea without cursing the glory and ambition which keep me from the heart of my very being. In the midst of my activities, whether at the head of my troops or inspecting the camps, my adorable Josephine stands alone in my heart, she occupies my mind and fills my thoughts. If I depart from you with the speed of the rushing Rhone, it is only so that I may see you again more quickly. If I get up in the middle of the night to work, it is because this may hasten by some days the arrival of my sweet love...

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This letter, the fifth which Bonaparte sent to his wife, was published for the first time in 1827 in the second volume of the Mémoires of a contemporary, Ida Saint-Elme.

[waifu-napoleon]

Napoleon: WHO SPILLED WINE ALL OVER MY MAPS? WHOEVER DID THIS IS GOING TO BE-

Joséphine: I'm sorry, it was me.

Napoleon: -forgiven because everyone deserves a second chance.

Murat: Wow. I’d be fucking dead, had it been me who did this.