#klemen

[volturiwolf]

Vita deserves a pay raise and we deserve more shirtless Nace 🙏🙏🙏

[random-brushstrokes]

Klemens Brosch - Herbstsonate (ca. 1920)

[enchantedbook]

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' illustrated by Vedran Klemens

[empirearchives]

I am now imagining Napoleon monkey hunting in America and eating coconuts to reflect on his past greatness

[palestineoddiwrth]

Bashar Murad in Klefi/Samed by Hatari ft. Bashar Murad because queer Palestinians exist and we shouldn't forget them

And after all this torture I am steadfast, I won't bow down I am steadfast, I won't bow down I've started and I won't finish I am staying and I won't just disappear I am worthy, I won't be erased I am worthy, I won't be erased I am steadfast and won't bow down I am steadfast and won't bow down

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From the river to the sea Palestine will be free

[ciderbird]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the Congress of Vienna” you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever I don’t feel shit

5 mins later: I think I just saw the Russian tsar in a woman’s dress

my buddy Metternich, pacing: Napoleon has escaped from Elba…

[huariqueje]

The Madman , Steward Observatory   -  Klemens Brosch , n/d.

Austrian, 1894-1926

Oil on canvas , 120.5 x 119 cm.

Collection Nordico City Museum Linz

[adreciclarte4]

Lady Gaga by Chris Klemens

[random-brushstrokes]

Klemens Brosch - The crocodile on the moon (ca. 1912)

[enchantedbook]

'Nocturnal Vision in a forest valley' by Klemens Brosch (1894 - 1926)

[cedyat]

There is a Metternich wine being sold in basically every German supermarket. I've known about if for years, but only now decided to look into the backstory of that and it turns out that Metternich was gifted the vineyard Johannisberg in the Palatinate (a region known for its vineyards) to secure his financial situation after the wars.

I mean if Napoleon gets accused of "starting wars for fun" I'm gonna start spreading the word that Metternich stirred shit up so that he could eventually slap his name on some mid wine :P

[funstealer]

In the Evening - Klemens Brosch, 1917-19

[venustapolis]

Autumn Sonata (Klemens Brosch, 1920)

[josefavomjaaga]

The Metternichs about Junot

Metternich to Mme Metternich, 14 February 1810 It is with true sorrow that I take up my quill today. Your letter of 26 January contains one of the scenes that show us the people of 1792 and 1793 exposed and naked. Place a being like J[unot] in a very high position, he will drink blood without letting any misgivings stop him.

That’s Metternich reacting to the news of the scandal Junot had caused after having discovered the correspondence between his wife Laure and Metternich, proving they had had an affair. Metternich himself was not in Paris at the time but had left some time after the war of 1809 between France and Austria had begun, and in the meantime had taken over the ministry of foreign affairs in Austria. However, Lorel Metternich with the kids had stayed in Paris, and Junot had dragged her right in the middle of a scene of severe domestic violence that she immediately informed her husband of, with the help of a secret agent Metternich had in Paris, Benoit des Androuins.

Interestingly, Lorel Metternich at first does not mention any involvement of Caroline Murat in this event, she only lists her as one of the people gossipping about it.

Other than that, Lorel apparently behaved as prudently as she could once she had entered Junot’s house. According to the letter by Androuins, Junot had forced Laure to write a message to Lorel, urgently inviting her over. On entering, Lorel found Laure Junot crying on the sofa, hiding her face in both hands. - According to Laure’s own journal intime, the last hours had been a nightmare for her, including attempted rape and attempted murder. - Once Lorel Metternich was in the room, Junot locked the door behind both women and started to rage against Metternich, demanding Lorel take revenge upon him etc. The only thing Lorel answered was: "But you are mistaken, Monsieur le Duc. This is not my husband’s handwriting." - Despite the fact she had obviously recognized it. Again, according to Laure’s journal intime, she at some point managed to silently ask Laure if she could do something for her.

Despite Lorel’s calm reaction, the scene must have scared her a lot. At least she seems rather relieved to learn that the Junots were to leave the capital, when she writes to her husband:

Bluebeard has finally left with his amazon and, as I am assured, probably never to return.

"Bluebeard" obviously referring to Junot.

Edit: Forgot to add the source for the two letters: Conti, "Metternich und die Frauen", Vol. 1 - The description of what may (or not) have happened during the night when Laure was alone with Junot are a brief summary of the excerpts from Laure's "journal intime" quoted in Toussaint du Wast, "Laure Junot". It is to be noted that this "journal intime" may have been written years after the event for Balzac, and that it is per se unverifiable.

However, Lorel Metternich calling Junot "Bluebeard" at least strongly hints at her, too, being convinced that Junot had physically abused and possibly tried to murder Laure.

Edit II: On second reading, I added an "attempted" to the accusation of rape. Of course, by the reasoning of the law at the time, rape in the judicial sense would not even have been possible between spouses. Obeying to the husband's needs was the wife's job. - As to Laure's "journal intime", she describes that Junot tried to force himself on her, but claims that she managed to make him stop. (I am not sure I fully believe her.) Junot then at some point attacked her with a pair of scissors, wounding her, before trying to strangle her. He only stopped when Laure was close to loosing consciousness and when he literally saw her blood on his hands. That's how Madame Metternich found Laure on entering.