#zamoyski

[empirearchives]

Descriptions of Napoleon’s personality by Adam Zamoyski

“He was kind by nature, quick to assist and reward. He found comfortable jobs and granted generous pensions to former colleagues, teachers, and servants, even to a guard who had shown sympathy during his incarceration after the fall of Robespierre. He was generous to the son of Marbeuf, promoted his former commander at TouIon Dugommier and looked after his family when he died, did the same for La Poype and du Teil, and even found the useless Carteaux a post with a generous pension. Whenever he encountered hardship or poverty, he disbursed lavishly. He could be sensitive, and there are countless verifiable acts of solicitude and kindness that testify to his genuinely wishing to make people happy.”

“He was most at his ease with children, soldiers, servants, and those close to him, in whom he took a personal interest, asking them about their health, their families, and their troubles. He would treat them with a joshing familiarity, teasing them, calling them scoundrels or nincompoops; whenever he saw his physician, Dr. Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, he would ask him how many people he had killed that day.”

“He possessed considerable charm and only needed to smile for people to melt. He could be a delightful companion when he adopted an attitude of bonhomie. He was a good raconteur, and people loved listening to him speak on some subject that interested him, or tell his ghost stories, for which he would sometimes blow out the candles. He could grow passionate when discussing literature or, more rarely, his feelings.”

[katecheza-xyz]

Historia Morskiego Oka

[howlerbat]

Adam Zamoyski on the Russian campaign in a debate “Napoleon the great?” with Andrew Roberts

[ciderbird]

I will leave it up to you how accurate you think the account of the mistress of Metternich is, but this passage about Alexander’s stay in London is so funny to me. I mean the English at this time were generally curious about foreigners but this is admittedly more intense

from “Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna” by Adam Zamoisky

[europeansculpture]

Auguste Zamoyski (1893 - 1970)

[chicago-geniza]

Stefcia the maid at Zamoyski House is back from helping her family with the harvest and has now been conscripted into smuggling her friend Heńka's beau past the gates on a Sunday night for an illicit tryst. I am once again saying more stately home museums should record TikTok costume dramas as promotional material, I have been following this Upstairs Downstairs-ass saga for months now

[baziutawrites]

~ Xavier Thorpe x Valerye Zamoyski ~

[lietpolski]

no more book experts i promise but this is so feliks!!!! the dramatics!!! more lavish over the top feliks in historical stuff i need it!!

[justineportraits]

Jurek Zamoyski Lady MacBeth

[xantissa]

[empirearchives]

“Napoleon’s outlook on life was rich in contradictions. It was the product of the rationalism of the French Enlightenment, the cult of Greek and Roman Antiquity then in fashion, and the sentimentality of the early Romantic movement, all of it superimposed on an Italianate religious piety, a Corsican belief in providence, and a Mediterranean sense of family.”

— Adam Zamoyski, Great Men and Small Ways

[venicepearl]

Jadwiga Sapieżyna, née Zamoyska (1806–1890) was a Polish noblewoman and philanthropist.

[hotnunswithguns]

Books I finnished reading in August :)

[get-more-bald]

rpf is fine (16th century swedish-polish king fanfiction)

[europeansculpture]

August ZAMOYSKI (1893-1970) - Portrait formiste de Franz Löwy Exécuté vers 1950 d’après le modèle en plâtre réalisé en 1922, aujourd’hui perdu

[elucubrare]

shoutout to the guy who sent king louis-philippe four rattlesnakes in the mail (cit. adam zamoyski, phantom terror). it's a dumbass plot that had literally zero possibility of success and i love it.