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I made a napjuno design on gacha club and I actually liked how they turned out 🥰 MY BABIES

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Bonaparte near Bassano by Horace Vernet,1848

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment, yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

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Robe sword and scabbard 1802-03

In 1799 a new system of government, led by three Consuls, was introduced in France.  Napoleon was elected First Consul. A sword of this pattern was provided to each of them, although this one is of a later date and must have been a replacement for the original. It was acquired by George IV with a certificate swearing that it had belonged to Napoleon himself.

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I got inspired and drew it 😭✨

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JOJO NAPOLEON???

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Stop using anti-self language✋️

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Pauline Bonaparte

I haven't drawn a woman in a long time so I decided to draw one of my favourite Napoleonic women - Pauline!

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MARIE-THÉRÈSE FIGUEUR // SOLDIER

“She was a French soldier who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Unlike some female soldiers before the twentieth century, she did not disguise her gender when she enlisted, serving for twenty-two years under her own name in the French Revolutionary Army and the Grande Armée.”

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DO NOT reblog the silly chibi Murat, or he will suck out your intelligence (and your fashion sence).

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忘记更新是一种我的问题。

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Father of the Grenadiers

For the first few years of the Empire, Oudinot was commanding grenadier divisions. His willingness to fight among the ranks and his general popularity in the army won him the everlasting affections of his men.

François Pils, Oudinot's aide/valet* from 1804 - 1814, mentions this in his military diary:

It was at the battle of Wertingen that the general first led his grenadiers to glory. Since then, they no longer called him their general, but they all called him Father.

The Battle of Wertingen was the first battle of the campaign of Ulm so it was around October 1805. It was also around this time that Napoleon would nickname this particular elite grenadier division Oudinot's Grenadiers, a name that would always accompany Oudinot whenever he would command grenadier divisions.

And this whole 'father' thing also stuck, even when Oudinot would switch between grenadier divisions like in 1807 during the siege of Danzig when he was commanding a joint division of grenadiers and voltigeurs:

Not a day went by without fighting; either the French attacked, or they were warned by the Russians on the 19th in the morning the enemy made a new effort and rushed en masse from the Pharwassen into our lines. Warned by the sound of cannon fire, the general arrived at a gallop and, just as he was leading a column of grenadiers after him, a cannonball took the head of his horse; the animal rolled to the ground, dragging its rider with it, amidst a clamour of despair that came from all the chests: the grenadiers believed that their general had just been killed! But this movement of anxiety did not last long: the general got up at once and mounted a new horse which I presented to him. Then, from all sides, enthusiastic cries were heard: "Long live General Oudinot! Long live our father!"...

Wow...besides Napoleon, I don't think I've ever read of such a display for any other general/marshal. They really did love him.

Pils, F., & Cisternes, R. de. (1895). Journal de Marche du Grenadier Pils: (1804-1814). Ollendorff.

*Pils was not Oudinot's ADC, he was never conferred that position. It's been hard to find out what exactly was Pils' role as part of Oudinot's staff since he was just a private soldier who Oudinot just took under his wing.

Original French:

C'est au combat de Wertingen que le général conduisit pour la première fois ses grenadiers à la gloire. Depuis, ils ne l'appelèrent plus leur général, mais tous lui laissèrent le surnom de Père.

Il ne se passait plus de jour sans combat; soit que les Français attaquassent, soit qu'ils fussent prévenus par les Russes le 19 dès le matin l'ennemi fit un nouvel effort et s'élança en masse du Pharwassen dans nos lignes. Averti par le bruit du canon, le général arrive au galop et, à l'instant où il entraînait une colonne de grenadiers à sa suite, un boulet emporte la tête de son cheval; l'animal roule à terre entraînant son cavalier , au milieu d'une clameur de désespoir qui sort de toutes les poitrines: les grenadiers croient que leur général vient d'être tué!…Mais ce mouvement d'inquiétude ne fut pas de longue durée: le général se relève aussitôt et enfourche un nouveau cheval que je lui présente. Alors, de toutes parts, des cris enthousiastes se font entendre: «Vive le général Oudinot! Vive notre père!»...

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Citizen Cooks in the Age of Napoleon

Excerpt about the role of cooks in France after the abolition of culinary guilds, and how they navigated a world which demanded for them to find new ways to stay relevant and prosperous. From Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830 by Jennifer J. Davis:

French cooks sought new sites upon which to rebuild the authority of culinary labor. Throughout the early nineteenth century cooks increasingly adopted scientific terms to demonstrate their reliability and profound knowledge of the culinary arts. Such language communicated the author's education and distinction, just as an appeal to an elite patron had done in the 1660s and referral to a cook's professional expertise had done in the 1760s. The rhetoric and institutions of scientific knowledge also provided a means of distinguishing men's work from women's in the post-revolutionary era. During the early nineteenth century, cooks' claims to scientifically valuable savoir-faire rested on three crucial points of culinary innovation: food preservation, the improved production of bouillon, and gelatin extraction.

As these processes left the realm of traditional knowledge and became sites of scientific inquiry by tradespeople and amateurs alike, cooks sought to maintain authority in this arena by including scientific terms and theories in cookbooks, advertisements, and government petitions.

Two factors encouraged cooks' claims to scientific knowledge during this era. First, when Napoleon Bonaparte took the reins of government as first consul in 1799 and established himself as emperor in 1804, he raised medical doctors and academic scientists, Idéologues, to positions of political prominence. From these posts, the Idéologues subsidized experiments and inventions deemed useful to the nation and encouraged the popularization of science in the public sphere through state sponsorship of exhibitions and print forums. The Idéologues particularly supported research related to food preparation and preservation that might benefit France's armies and navies, with obvious benefits for professional cooks. Many cooks presented their particular techniques to the government during this time, seeking both financial recompense and public acclaim. Second, a voluntary association closely allied with the Idéologues' vision, the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale (Society for the Encouragement of National Industry), provided a forum in which formally trained scientists, politicians, merchants, artisans, and curious educated men might unite to address questions that inhibited French science and industry.

Together, these men sought to develop a more coherent program for industrial advancement than any one group could achieve independently. The society explicitly sought to join scientific knowledge to artisanal practical expertise, recognizing that each group had strengths that would benefit industrial development. This association invested heavily in three diffuse projects that eventually infused the most basic culinary processes with scientific awareness: new methods of food preservation to benefit the nation's armies and navies, new methods of stock preparation to sustain the nation's poor, and new methods of extracting gelatin from bones to improve hospital and military diets at little added expense.

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Napoleon, on the way to the ship to Elba, randomly encountered Marshal Augereau. They had an argument where each accused the other of fucking up and/or being a traitor. I think Augereau still tried to return to Naps during the 100 days but Naps said forget it.

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Napoleon and Josephine

I love them, they are my favourite couple ever since I studied French history at middle school. I know that she probably didn't love him at the beginning of the marriage, they cheated on each other and broke up, but I also know that they remained good friends after the divorce, and I like to think that they might have cleared up and gotten back together, if an afterlife exists (I hope so). I know that I probably have strange ideas, because the majority of people doesn't ship real people or people dead for 200 years.

Sorry for this outburst, but I didn't know any other place to express myself, I was a bit afraid of other people's judgments😅

Ps. I think that "Summertime Sadness" by Lana Del Rey is good for them (or maybe "I wanna be yours" by Arctic Monkeys)

CREDITS: I found this beautiful drawing on Pinterst, published by "Cecilia", but this work was drawn by rivaldii

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Napoleon burger