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pobodleru · 3 months

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Napoleon, Josephine and the tarot cart:

VI The lovers

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history-and-arts · 5 months

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I have seen a resurge of interest in this miniseries since the release of Ridley Scott's disaster. There is an excellent version on youtube that you can watch.

This scene depicts a situation that did actually happen between Napoleon and Josephine. Josephine either faked a pregnancy or mistook a possible pregnancy to avoid having to travel to Italy during Napoleon's campaign in 1796. Eventually she was pushed/forced to visit Napoleon in Italy because Napoleon began to slack his military campaign out of worry/desperation for his wife. Of course it would become obvious that she wasn't in fact pregnant. This scene depicts Napoleon finding out about the 'miscarriage'.

Even though this miniseries is not that historically accurate, it does capture the character of Napoleon so much better than Ridley Scott's new film.

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empirearchives · 1 year

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Me: *feels guilty about reading the private love letters of historical figures which can get pretty intimate at times*

Also me:

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napoleondidthat · 8 months

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dozydawn · 5 months

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#belinda lyon #napoleon and josephine #tea towel #1970s

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sunsolii · 5 months

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Bro, this scene from Napoleon and Josephine: A love story

Is...

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

THIS! THIS IS WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE IN NAPOLEON 2023!!!! The love and passion between Napoleon and Josephine, not that boring and almost abusive depiction of their relationship. Sure the mini series didn't get EVERYTHING right, shit even some of the characters designs were way off from their IRL counterparts (ahem *Talleyrand* ahem), but the series still stays loyal to the relationship between these two.

I started watching the mini series today and I'm barely on episode two so I still have a lot to watch, but based on the first episode I'm loving it! I'm so glad that it's available on youtube as well as 'Austerlitz' and 'Waterloo', now I can have a Napoleon marathon during winter break.

Anyways, end of my short rant :)

#napoleonic era #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon and josephine #josephine de beauharnais #french history #napoleonic wars #napoleon films #the kiss scene made me feel warm inside🥹🥹

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eunikia · 25 days

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M. de Remusat witnessed in 1806 a scene of almost hysterical and insurmountable emotion when Napoleon embraced Talleyrand and Josephine, declaring that it was hard to part from the two people that one loved the most; and, utterly unable to control himself, fell into strong convulsions. This was no comedy. There was nothing to gain. It was the sudden and passionate assertion of his heart.

NAPOLEON: THE LAST PHASE by Lord Rosebery p.259

That’s so weird I still can’t believe my eyes...

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ic-napology · 6 months

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So I am reading this novel about Naps and Josephine's story and his passion has already worn out in Italy, so his whole great love for here is also over by consequence. An idea is worth loving, not a human woman. He's already ogling Giuseppina Grassini. (Btw funny how his first serious mistress's name was the same he gave to his wife).

I'm bothered when they come to picture this as the ending of all Napoleon's love for Josephine. Mostly in fiction, but even non-fiction tends to give this interpretation of their dynamic, sometimes already during the Italian campaign.

(I should point that this is an old novel, though.)

Why should any feeling of love go away once most passion and enthusiasm is over? The "mio dolce amor" period seems to me as just one phase of a much more complex relationship. I'd rather see it like Napoleon matured out of an excessive enthusiasm, stopped idealising her wife and gave her a more balanced vision and sentiment. He certainly had to do this after facing her faults, maybe also suffering while doing so, but should that not be love too?

He must have stopped worshipping a divinity and begun comprehending a woman, and that should be framed more as a positive thing, not as a delusion.

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shannonselin · 5 months

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Was Napoleon's last word really Josephine, as portrayed in the new Napoleon movie? Not likely.

Given the number of people surrounding Napoleon during his final days, there should be a clear record of his last words. But, as with most things involving Napoleon, there are several accounts of his dying hours and differences regarding what he actually said. If you want details, please see my article entitled "What were Napoleon's last words?" Here's the upshot:

Napoleon slipped into an incoherent state early in the morning of May 5, 1821. It was hard for his attendants to make out his last words.

Napoleon’s quoted last words were probably not a single connected phrase, but rather words that could be deciphered from generally inarticulate utterances.

Napoleon said (in French; he did not speak English) something about the army. On this, all four witnesses agree. Three agree that he said “head” and “army”; two that he said “head of the army” (tête d’armée).

According to two witnesses, Napoleon said something about France.

Napoleon may have said (in French) “who retreats,” “my son,” and/or “Josephine.”

Only General Charles de Montholon includes "Josephine" in Napoleon’s last words. Montholon wrote his memoirs some 20 years after Napoleon’s death, when he was imprisoned in the fortress of Ham. He was there with Louis-Napoléon (the future Napoleon III), who was the son of Napoleon’s brother Louis and Josephine’s daughter Hortense. Montholon and Louis-Napoléon had been captured during one of the latter’s attempted coups. It is not unreasonable to suspect that Montholon wanted to honour his friend and rally the French to Louis-Napoléon’s cause by showing that Napoleon’s last thought was for Louis-Napoléon’s grandmother. Thus, although “Josephine” is often cited as one of Napoleon’s last words, it is actually the least probable of them.

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torturedpoetspsychward · 5 months

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the napoleon movie pissed me off right off the bat because why are you casting a 50 year old man to play a 30 something napoleon and then having vanessa kirby (who plays josephine) be a full 15 years younger than joaquin when josephine is supposed to be 6 YEARS OLDER than napoleon. it ruins the whole dynamic between napoleon and josephine

and then made even worse by the fact that there’s the whole plotline about her being too old to give him an heir. i know that hollywood likes to treat any woman over 30 like they’re 100 years old but doing that when the character in question is played by a 35 year old vanessa kirby, like it’s just not believable

#napoleon #princess josephine #napoleon and josephine #napoleon movie #ridley scott i’m in your walls #vanessa kirby #barry keoghan should’ve played napoleon instead #i guess i’m hollywood it’s impossible to fathom a man being into an older woman

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suburbanbeatnik · 1 year

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As promised, here's my clinch sketch of Napoleon and Josephine, the winners of my Valentine's Day poll! You see them circa 1796-7, during the Italian campaign.

Anyway, this was fun! Maybe I'll do more at some point.

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pobodleru · 7 days

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A couple of days ago I met a beautiful woman in the Moscow metro. She was holding a Starbucks cup in her hands, but inside there was not coffee, but earth and a few petals in it.

This looks absolutely like Josephine in modern AU. I’m sure she would also steal a sprout of a plant she liked from the cafe for her garden.