#rose beauharnais

[ic-napology]

Young Josephine

[diioonysus]

necklaces/chokers + art

[frivolette]

Blue enamel ring belonging to Josephine de Beauharnais, bearing the inscription "sincere love." Gifted to her by Napoleon in 1796, the year of their marriage.

[napoleondidthat]

Film stills, Napoleon 2023

[josefavomjaaga]

Was Josephine de Beauharnais so popular with the masses even after the fall of the First Empire?

I would not know because I know very little about "the masses" during the empire. So I could not even tell how popular she was while she still "reigned" (as far as Napoleon would any of his wives "reign").

Gut feeling says that much of her popularity among regular folks even only developped after the empire. The opinion of the "masses" did not count for much under Napoleon, after all. Josephine's death right after Napoleon's abdication was a perfect start to develop legends about her. Though even more likely, many of those legends - like Napoleon's alleged last words being about Josephine - only sprung up during or in connection with the Second Empire. Napoleon III was Josephine's grand child, after all, and had a bit of a cult for his Beauharnais relations.

Josephine had always been popular among the lower nobility/wealthy bourgeoisie though, I believe. That was the class she came from and belonged to.

Thanks for the question, sorry if I cannot answer any better.

[mangaandanimeposts]

Their first meeting❤️🥹... this manga is too underrated. It's "Bara no Josephine"/ "Josephine the French Rose" by Yumiko Igarashi. Youn can read it on Manga Fire.

[pedroam-bang]

Napoleon (2023)

[murillo-enthusiast]

at seeing the maréchal physical changes, he smiled at her, trying to not come out as a rude man.

– the gender-swap did bring out the softness i never knew you held before, duc of dalmatia. there is something strangely pretty in it... please do not take it in a bad manner, for i mean it as a compliment.

🌹 male! @rosie-of-beauharnais

… Thank you… Monsieur.

Why does this compliment feel nice. It should feel nice if she is to be habituated to her new and ideally temporary role in life, should it not? (Or perhaps it is that such softness is something that is not inherent…)

I am finding it hard to adjust, but I will approach these altered circumstances with the sensibility that I approach all others. How are you finding your… change?

[sharkspez]

Tumblr Biography: Napoleon 🇫🇷

💔 After separating from his first 👰 wife, Napoleon 💍 married Marie Louise, daughter of the 👑 Emperor of Austria. Would this new 🤝 alliance be enough to 🔒 secure his legacy?

[ukdamo]

Malmaison

Amy Lowell

Verse 1

How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall!  How quietly the Seine runs in loops and windings, over there, over there, sliding through the green countryside!  Like ships of the line, stately with canvas, the tall clouds pass along the sky, over the glittering roof, over the trees, over the looped and curving river. A breeze quivers through the linden-trees.  Roses bloom at Malmaison. Roses!  Roses!  But the road is dusty.  Already the Citoyenne Beauharnais wearies of her walk.  Her skin is chalked and powdered with dust, she smells dust, and behind the wall are roses! Roses with smooth open petals, poised above rippling leaves...  Roses ... They have told her so.  The Citoyenne Beauharnais shrugs her shoulders and makes a little face.  She must mend her pace if she would be back in time for dinner.  Roses indeed!  The guillotine more likely.

The tiered clouds float over Malmaison, and the slate roof sparkles in the sun.

[josefavomjaaga]

💔

On May 29, 1814, 210 years ago, Josephine Bonaparte passed away. And on this day I wanted to portray her with those who made her truly happy, those who were with her, literally, until her last breath - her children.

[ic-napology]

Josephine and Fouché talking.

It's supposedly set between 1794-5. I know I took a lot of liberties in terms of costuming, because I wanted to communicate things through the dresses and having fun)

[napoleondidthat]

This Josephine looks to be a moody one.

[josefavomjaaga]

Hii, I have heard Eugene initially disliked his stepfather. It sounds interesting since I love the beautiful father-son bond of napoleon and his stepson. Is it true that Eugene initially didn't like his stepfather? Was it just a part of grieving for his own father, Alexander, or was it because Napoleon initially acted a certain way that hurt Eugene.

Hi and thank you for the Ask! As I’m feeling particularly lazy today, I thought it would be easiest to let Eugène answer himself. This is translated from his memoirs:

I must say that, a few months later, we realised that General Bonaparte might want to unite his destiny with that of our mother, and all the splendour that has since surrounded Napoleon, then General Bonaparte, has not made me forget the pain I felt when I saw my mother resolved to form new ties. It seemed to me that a second marriage, whatever it was, was a profanation, an attack on the memory of my father. General Bonaparte, who was already a regular visitor to the house, took an interest in everything that went on there, and did not disdain to devote himself, with particular care, to the education of two children whose mother he soon hoped to marry; but they were aware of the reluctance we had already shown, my sister and I, for my mother to marry again, and they used the need for both of us to complete our education as an excuse to place us in two boarding schools in Saint-Germain. It was not long before we learnt at once of my mother's marriage to General Bonaparte, of his appointment as commander of the army of Italy, and finally of my mother's imminent departure to follow her husband. All this news would have pleased me very little if General Bonaparte, on leaving for Italy, had not given me a glimpse of a very flattering consolation: he promised to call me to his side as soon as, through assiduous and successful work, I had made up for the time that circumstances had caused me to lose.

So, apparently Eugène and Hortense had shown their dislike for this second marriage openly enough for Napoleon and Josephine not wanting to have them around for the wedding. Which is … yeah. Not particularly considerate. Presumably, this had hurt Eugène more than he lets show in his memoirs. I surely would not want to learn about my mother having married from my school principal (according to Hortense, she was called to Madame Campan’s office, and Madame Campan then carefully broke the news). I’d argue this was not the best start.

But let’s not forget that this is Eugène’s own POV. As he admits himself in the next paragraph, his education had indeed been much neglected (he had already been pushed from pillar to post even before the Revolution after his parents’ separation). The kids being sent back to school may have been more than just an excuse to have them out of the way for Napoleon and Josephine’s marriage.

As to the reasons why the kids were set against their mother remarrying, Eugène cites the memory of his father, in whose care he had grown up and whom he probably had a much closer personal relationship with than his sister. He also may have understood much more than Hortense about the ugly scenes that had happened when his parents had separated, so his mother remarrying may have felt to him as if Rose-Josephine now completely gave up on Alexandre, as if she ultimately declared that her first marriage had been a mistake.

But most of all, I think the children felt abandonned. After all, not even two years earlier, they had woken up one morning to learn that their mother had been taken to prison during the night. Françoise de Bernardy thinks that the letters the kids wrote home from their boarding schools often feel as if they were very protective of their mother, almost as if they had been the adults and Josephine the child. All their childhood had been turmoil. Their mother was the only thing left they could cling to.

But both children were, as a rule, docile and well-behaved, and especially Eugène had this innate desire to please, to be loved, and to win the appreciation of whatever father figure was available in his life at any given time. So it would not take long for Napoleon to win them over. We do not have any letters from Eugène to Napoleon from this time, afaik, we only know he wrote because Napoleon mentions it. We do have a letter from Napoleon to Hortense, in reply to a somewhat defiant letter she had sent. Presumably, Hortense, being younger and closer to her mother, had been more hostile than her brother. But I doubt she would have expressed her feelings too openly; Madame Campan would have taken care of that.

I also always feel like I have to add a bit of a caveat with regards to Eugène’s and Napoleon’s relationship. Yes, I would argue this was most likely the closest thing to a father-son-relationship Napoleon ever experienced during his life. But it always remained at a certain distance. Napoleon called Eugène tu in private, obviously, but in letters and later at court it’s always vous. And while we have multiple remarks of "paternal love" and "filial devotion" etc in their correspondence, I yet have to find a single instance of Eugène referring to Napoleon as a father. Even in letters to his mother and sister he speaks of either "Bonaparte" or later "the emperor". Napoleon does of course call Eugène his son in every letter since the adoption. But this is first and foremost a formality; prince Karl von Baden who had married Napoleon’s adopted daughter Stéphanie de Beauharnais is adressed as "mon fils" just like Eugène.

Aaaand considering that I only wanted to quote Eugène, this has gotten unbearably long once again. Sorry for that 😚. I always get so excited whenever somebody shows an interest in the boy.

Thanks for the Ask, I hope this was helpful!

[josefavomjaaga]

Technically, in 1790, this is not a portrait of “Josephine” but of Rose de Beauharnais, née Tascher de la Pagérie. It’s another long five years until she will receive that other name and that other existence.

I love the red-white-blue colour scheme of her dress. Revolution in full swing, obviously. If this really is from 1790, it must have been done by the end of the year, as I understand Rose and little Hortense only then got back to France, after having fled from the revolutionary upheavels on Martinique. With her husband Alexandre playing a somewhat important role among the revolutionaries, Rose probably found herself rather popular in Paris on her return.

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.

[mangaandanimeposts]

I love them so much in this manga❤️... they're so sweet and they look so cute and good together there🥹🫶🏻 I would really love to see an anime based on this manga❤️

Manga: Josephine the French Rose/ Bara no Josephine- Yumiko Igarashi

Characters: Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais