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Young Englishman meets Napoleon on St. Helena

When the late Admiral Eden was a senior midshipman he was told by his Admiral that he should accompany him on a visit to the fallen Emperor at St Helena. “We waited for Napoleon in an outer room,” he afterwards told a friend, “and you must imagine how eagerly I expected his entrance. The door was thrown open at last, and in he came. He was short and fat, and nothing very attractive but for his eye! My word, sir, I had never seen anything like it.

“After speaking to the Admiral he turned to me, and then I understood for the first time in my life, what was the meaning of the phrase ‘A born ruler of men.’ I had been taught to hate the French as I hated the devil; but when Napoleon looked at me there was such power and majesty in his look that if he had bade me lie down that he might walk over me, I would have done it at once, Englishman although I was. The look on Napoleon’s face was the revelation of the man and the explanation of his power. He was born to command.”

The Story of Napoleon, Harold F.B. Wheeler, 1921.

(I think Admiral Eden might be Henry Eden, 1798-1888.)

gutenberg.org

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You vs the guy she told you not to worry about

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Napoleon by Hirohiko Araki for Vol. 10 of Educational Manga: World History

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Suit, gesture and expression studies that ended up all being about mr Wright here :)

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Murat meme;;;;;

Inspired by this post

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YAY eye contact:))

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Let's create a world

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How I sleep knowing that I will watch every single French revoloution movie for free, on YouTube or on some sketchy website:

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*places subway surfers vieeo below you*

napalex is actually the PERFECT ship alexander and napoleon were meant for eachother actually well not really i dont think theyre good for eachother but theyre evil soulmates you get what im saying??? like they shouldnt be together but they are and i like it that way

alexander was RAISED ON IDEALS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION his tutor was a FRENCH REPUBLICAN NAPOLEON WAS A PRODUCT OF THE REVOLUTION BOTH LEANED TOWARDS MORW CONAERVATIVE IDEOLOGIES AS THEY GOT OLDER IN THEIR CAREER WHILE NAPOLEON STARTED OFF AS A BOARDERLINE CORSICAN NATIONALIST LATER GRAVITATING TO WHATEVER THW FUCK YOU CAN CALL BONAPARTISM ALEXANDER STARTS OFF AS A LIBERAL MIND YOU HIS TUTOR WAS AN ATHEIST ONLY TO LATER TURN INTO A CONSERVATIVE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN IN HIS LATER YEARS AND LESS OF AN IDEALIST YALL DONT EVEN GETT IT BRUHHH

alexander never wanted to be tsar and dr amed of living a life away from tsardom meanwhile napoleon did everythinh in his power to become emperor and got there THROUGH A COUP LOOK AT THIS COMPARISON THERES SO MUCH TO COMPARE AND SO MUCH TO LOVW ABOUT THWM

FROM THE TILSIT TO ERFURT AND THE QUOTES AND THE BED IT ALL MAKES SENSE ITS SO OBVIOHUS FAGGOTRY THEY SPENT LONH TIME IN ERFURT WHAT DID THEY DO IN ERFUET?????

im sorry to all my clone high mutuals who had to see this

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A Nagasaki black lacquer on metal and aogai inlaid lidded box. Around 1805

Portrait of Napoleon after Louis Leopold Boilly, showing the young Napoleon as the first consul of the French Republic in 1802.

(Lempertz)

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Mysterious things happen...

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sans culotte in the 1790s:

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You are never safe from Ace jokes 🖤🩶🤍💜