#louis alexandre berthier

[meneeddeadmenyaoi]

Stop using anti-self language✋️

[largecucumber]

Everyone’s tired after a long battle, but at least Marshal Murat looks great in his ridiculous hat 🎩 😮‍💨

How’re y’all doing?? 😣💖 I’m so bored. All I do is school and exercise. I’m so so shy when I go to the gym! There’re these huge men lifting huge weights like omg how?! 😖🏃‍♀️💨 Anywayssss, I’m so sorry about Eugene 😢 I don’t actually know what he looks like lmaooo

[bambooale]

🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

[credo--ergo-sum]

A little overworked berthier for inbetween

[norrevu]

some sketches done from 'Kutuzov' (soviet film, 1943)

Alexander I, Napoleon, Kutuzov, Murat, Barclay de Tolly, Berthier

[armagnac-army]

ON THE LEFT WE HAVE A NERD

WITHOUT HIM THE ENTIRE GRANDE ARMEE WOULD FALL APART!!!! HE ALSO GOT HIS MISTRESS TO LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH HIS WIFE BECAUSE HES JUST THAT GOOD AT DIPLOMACY AND HE HAD A CREEPY STALKER SHRINE TO THAT MISTRESS BEFORE HE WAS FORCED TO GET MARRIED

ON THE RIGHT WE HAVE A KING

I STILL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW A FRENCHMAN BECAME THE KING OF SWEDEN ALSO HES REALLY CLOSE WITH HIS MINISTER MAGNUS BRAHE AND APPARENTLY IT WAS REALLY SUSPICIOUS WHEN THEY WERE HAVING “POLICY MEETINGS” IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN BED

WHICH OF NAPOLEONS MARSHALS OF THE EMPIRE IS GOING TO WIN THE TITLE OF MOST PEOPLE CLICKING ON THEIR BUTTON???

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[phatburd]

The rabbit story from "An Interview with Napoleon" by Simple History on YouTube.

[mandatorycommunistbrunchhour]

Posting every day until the 2023 Napoleon movie

Day 3

Alternative universe Lannes survives, and is still the second coming of the apocalypse

I actually drew this a while ago. I’m a bit conflicted about it.

You could imagine that he is about to roll over a horde of sleeping Austrians.

[empirearchives]

Beautiful unpublished letter from Josephine praying to Berthier to protect Napoleon

“Above all, take good care of the emperor. Make sure he doesn't expose himself too much. You are one of his oldest friends and it is on your attachment that I rely.”

Lettre de Joséphine à Berthier. Mayence, 15 octobre (1806). Une page 1/2 sur bifolio, papier doré à frise gaufrée de palmes, urnes et lauriers, in-8. "(...) ayés surtout bien soin de l'empereur. faites qu'il ne s'expose pas trop. vous êtes un de ses plus anciens amis et c'est sur votre attachement que je me repose.(...)"

Source: Sotheby’s — Une famille et Napoléon, Collections du Maréchal Berthier, Prince de Wagram

[cedyat]

[sunsolii]

Drew the gang in class

[captainknell]

*BOOK REPORT*

By Command of the Emperor, by SJ Watson

(my copy is plain and blue, but I'm guessing it once had a book jacket like the one on the right)

I initially did not know very much about Marshal Berthier but through @gabrielferaud I began to learn of the abuse he endured from Napoleon and I remembered I had this book.

I was surprised to learn that Berthier was 16 years older than our Emperor, and already had an accomplished life before Napoleon came into the picture.

In 1779,

Alexandre was now twenty-six years old. He had served as a topographical engineer, as a lieutenant in the infantry, and as a cavalry captain; and he was now on the personal staff of an army commander.

By the next year, he was serving overseas under General Rochambeau in the American Revolution alongside Washington and La Fayette! After three years in America, he returned to France.

And so Berthier - a cadet at the age of twelve, a general at thirty-nine and a private at forty - quietly resigned himself to the end of his military career, the more so because he had never held any personal ambitions other than to do his best.

Berthier would have been better off if he had retired at forty and had never met Napoleon Bonaparte. He would have disappeared into obscurity, but fate would have different plans. Alternately, Napoleon was very lucky to have found Berthier. I'm going to go out on a limb and say without Berthier, Napoleon wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful as he was. Yes, he was a great general, a great leader, a genius, but he needed someone who could understand his intentions and make sure his plans were executed with precision. That man was Alexandre Berthier.

For 18 years, Berthier served Napoleon. He was the chief of staff and the first to be made a Marshal of France under Napoleon. He endured Napoleon's temper and unjust scorn. Napoleon called him, "Uninteresting" and "no good" and "in the way". Napoleon hardly ever let Berthier take credit for his success but was quick to blame his own faults on Berthier. But Berthier was loyal through and through. When warned of Napoleon's temper early on, he said, "But remember that one day it will be a fine thing to be second to that man."

It was a very good book with only two things I thought were odd. 1) Napoleon forced Berthier to marry and it was later mentioned that he had two young sons. Nothing was mentioned about his wife being pregnant or the birth of his sons, or even their names. 2) Berthier died from a fall out of a window. The book implied that he was dizzy and fell out or that Caulaincourt (his friend!) had him murdered. I think he either fell or jumped on his own. I don't think anyone - especially Caulaincourt - had anything to do with it.

But all in all, it was a very good and informative book. I learned a lot about Marshal Berthier and saw another side of Napoleon that I am not used to seeing. Like with most books that aren't a general biography of Napoleon, I would definitely suggest having some background knowledge as things that are going on are not always explained fully.

[josefavomjaaga]

Small, fat, always laughing, very busy; in love with Madame Visconti

Entry for Louis Alexandre Berthier in general Desaix's "Journal de voyage".

[koda-friedrich]

Happy birthday!

[lady-lunaria]

If I had a nickel for every time one of Napoleon's marshals jumped from a window before Waterloo, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

[first-empire-fancy-boys]

Council of War at Gorodnya, by Alexander Averyanov.

Murat is so magically shiny in this.