#Napoleon and money

[empirearchives]

“Bonaparte se délectait littéralement de la lecture des budgets des administrations.”

(Loose) Translation:

“Bonaparte literally delighted in reading the administration budgets.”

I’m crying I love this stupid nerd

Source: Pierre Branda, Le prix de la gloire: Napoléon et l’argent (p. 237)

#this mfkr was passionate about *budgeting* but they dont have the courage to put that in the film 😂😂😂 #pierra branda #napoleon bonaparte #Napoleon #Le prix de la gloire: Napoléon et l’argent #Le prix de la gloire #Napoleon and money #money #budgeting #napoleon #napoleonic #napoleonic era

[trashpoppaea]

Review of Napoleon (2023)

So I saw Napoleon (2023).

eyes glaze over

collapses and melts into a puddle

This is possibly the most soporifically boring, relentlessly mediocre so-called "epic" I have had the misfortune to see.

Plotless, pointless, and devoid of anything approaching characterization, the movie can be best described as reenacted scenes from a wikipedia article about Napoleon as written by the Anti-Jacobin.

The whole thing is suffused with British reactionary propaganda circa 1815. The characterizations are all courtesy of the Anti-Jacobin and Rowlandson’s cartoons. Robespierre is a tyrant, Napoleon is a buffoonish loutish thug, and Josephine is a slut. There’s nothing there. There’s no character arcs, no development. Sure, it’s pretty enough, but it's boring. So, so, so boring.

While watching it, I was frequently in a fugue state, floating over my body, wondering, "what is a movie? is this what they're like now? with no drama, no characters, no arcs, no interest?"

In fact, I didn't watch it: I endured it.

Joaquin Phoenix is awful. He is completely miscast on every conceivable level. Mumbling, monotone, and charmless-- I never for one moment thought I was watching Napoleon-- it only felt like Phoenix's cosplay. He and Vanessa Kirby have so little chemistry they might as well be appearing in different movies. They supposedly have this grand obsession/love story, but this amounts to sitting in the same room staring off in boredom. There's the occasional ridiculous sex scene which is always doggie style with clothes on. But for the most part, Josephine just stands in the rain or stares off into the mist.

Oh yeah there's the occasional battle. Eh…

Napoleon’s life was filled with colorful characters like the foppish, extravagant and brave Murat, the bold and foul-mouthed Lannes, the scheming, irrepressible Fouche, and the bubbly nymphomaniac Pauline, none of whom are here, and you have a bunch of interchangeable extras standing around rooms or battlefields. The only character who makes any impression whatsoever is Edouard Philipponnat as Czar Alexander, and I would have rather had a movie starring this actor. Alas, that's not what we got.

A lot of money was spent on this movie. A lot of choices were made. The result was a bland, forgettable dud that immediately fell into a memory hole as soon I departed the theatre.

As Napoleon himself would say, BAH!

PS. @microcosme11 and I didn't watch the entire thing, because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long. As all the restaurants in the neighborhood were closing at 10, we left half an hour early, right before Waterloo and after Josephine died of pneumonia, so we could have burgers and a richly deserved beer.

PPS. Feel free to ask me for specifics!

@thiswaycomessomethingwicked @lordansketil @joachimnapoleon @usergreenpixel @twice-told-tales @josefavomjaaga @bunniesandbeheadings @jefflion

#napoleon movie #ridley scott's napoleon #napoleon film #napoleon 2023 #ridley scott #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #boy what a stinker #I knew it was going to be bad but this was... #like Overdrawn at the Memory Bank bad but with more money thrown at it #but the burgers were really good!

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[ciderbird]

me explaining to people how preventing the assassination of Paul I of Russia would cause the downfall of the British Empire in the XIX century

#but some of yall are not ready for this conversation #paul i #paul i of russia #napoleonic wars #listen it makes sense i swear #why do you think England funded his murder? #because they knew he was planning a joint campaign against them with napoleon #and say what you will about Paul but unlike Alexander the man always put his money where his mouth is #he gave the boot to Louis XVIII as soon as he established diplomatic relations with Napoleon and told the english ambassador to fuck off #he was so pissed at england over the Ionian Islands he would have launched a campaign against them by himself #and unlike Alexander Paul gave 0 shits about what his nobles and courtiers wanted or approved of #which is why he got offed in the end BUT IMAGINE

[chongoblog]

To all the history bitches out there, if the internet existed before the 1930's and there was a hypothetical equivalent to Godwin's Law, who would be the Hitler that everyone gets compared to in inane arguments before Hitler was a thing?

#my moneys on napoleon but im curious what people who know more about history than i do would think #history #i guess #i feel like this is a dumb question but i asked myself that q and it wouldnt leave my head

[isthenapoleoncute]

my neighbor has been blasting Waterloo non-stop and it’s very upsetting for my Napoleon? What should I do? Is there any other song you recommend drowning the other in?

Any Napoleon would know, the best defense is a good offense.

Good News: Napoleons love to sing!

Bad News for your Neighbor: Napoleons cannot sing.

They have unmusical voices, they can’t carry a tune if you give them a wheelbarrow, but worst of all, they will nonetheless always try to sing.

Just hook your Napoleon up to a megaphone

Pop on some noise cancelling ear muffs for yourself, cuz as much as we love our Napoleons we gotta love ourselves too, this is self care

…and ask him to sing you Henri IV! Soon your neighbors will be begging for mercy. But mercy won’t come. Then they will beg for death, but death won’t come.

#is the napoleon cute? #napoleon #how to earn money #ask

[mandatorycommunistbrunchhour]

The tournament for Nappy (Round two)

#The tournament for Nappy #jean andoche junot #jean lannes #napoleonic era #napoleonic shitpost #poll #Trust me Nappy will need the “get one free” these hoes spend a lot of money #Junot is the free one if anyone's asking (nobody wants him)

[microcosme11]

Napoleon gives Lavalette one of his casual herculean orders

The day before leaving for Russia, he called his faithful postmaster, Count Lavalette, and entrusted him with a first nest egg to keep under his belt. “Go to the Grand Marshal,” he ordered, “he will give you treasury bonds for the sum of one million six hundred thousand francs. You will secretly convert them into gold…” No sooner said than done, which certainly stressed out poor Lavalette who didn’t know where to hide all this gold.

According to Constant, present during this scene, the Emperor even added a chest filled with diamonds, taken directly from the Tuileries treasure. In the process, Lavalette decided to have a collection of false hollow books made (no less than 54 volumes!) under the banal title of Ancient and Modern History, to hide the Emperor's gold. When the French campaign occurred in 1814, the count hid his fabulous library under the parquet floor of his castle.

And when three hundred Prussians camped for two months within its walls, they had no idea that part of the imperial fortune was sleeping under their feet! The loyal director ended up giving half of it to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, and deposited four hundred thousand francs in the name of the Emperor in the coffers of the banker Laffitte, for greater security. He was well inspired, we will see later (...).

Le tresor perdu de Napoleon_Ier (herodote.net)

link

#Lavalette #Napoleon's money #Napoleon finance

[serious-goose]

connor in this episode

#i swear he has no concept of the value of money #succession #succession s4 #connor roy #succession spoilers #then again this is the same guy who bought a fake Napoleon dick #arrested development

[delusionaldoppelsoldner]

Finished art for the discord server and moved on to try my hand with 1500's-1600's inspired troops. Mostly taking inspiration from the Habsburg armies, basically HRE (Germany) and Spain. No clue why I even made these and I am quite intimidated to show the historically inspired unique units from the previous post.

Honestly I am quite tempted to make a low-fantasy isekai fanfiction set in this time period with characters ranging from Tanya Degurechaff, Redeus Greyrat, Rimuru Tempest and Ainz Ooal Gown just to see how well they can play off each other. The politics would allow Ainz to shine with diplomacy if he manages to NOT scare everyone, warfare is just a slower form Tanya is used to and allow her to be Gustavus Adolphus, Redeus will probably be roaming around the place with mercs saving everyone he could from devastation and Rimuru can definetly have fun with all the new toys around for his game of Civ6 before oops Italian wars or wars of the reformation time.

Actually, I may start writing it now and just take the best part of my ship fics and plop it there for safekeeping. Imagining a fool trying to put lead into Slime Rimuru would be funny. Hopefully I get motivated enough to post it. Already havw crossover crackships in my mind I may as well indulge in period pieces.

#my art #pixel art #we need more pike and shot fantasy #its always either dark viking fantasy or mismatch of 1700's guns with knight armour in the west #for the east its either high fantasy with loa magic or high fantasy with shadow wizard money gang magic #I just want proper gun knights #Ainz would be a great statesman imho #Rudeus has the most freedom here and coul be a cool pov to see the shiftign of time #Tanya would be having a tea break as she tries to channel her inner Napoleon at every chance #Rimuru would get a culture victory in the corner minding his business lmao #tanya degurechaff #rimuru tempest #ainz ooal gown #rudeus greyrat

[nativehueofresolution]

connor is uninvolved with the company in comparison to his siblings, sure - he doesn't work there (though apparently he feels it's a back up option for him anytime he needs it - or he feels it should be anyways - based on him asking for a job in early s3 to help his campaign) and he has definitively opted out of the family power struggles over being heir. but he's also massively financially tied up in the company; he's a major shareholder and he is frustrated he wasn't told about the merger of equals because of how it will impact him. he rats the other kids out to logan in 1x04 and 4x02 when he realizes they're making moves against their father. and while his siblings don't feel obligated to keep him in the loop, i also don't know if they realize when they talk rather openly in front of connor in 4x02 about the sale he's going to go straight to logan to tattle. connor wants to act like he's completely divorced from waystar and neutral third party in the ongoing family conflict, but he really very much is not.

#connor roy #succession #my two cents? it's about the money more than any loyalty to logan #you can never fully take the desire for daddy's approval out of any of them #but i genuinely think the reason he does things like rat them out is less about that then him thinking logan makes waystar money #and none of the kids will be able to keep that up in the same way #and who's he gonna go to for money to do thinks like finance a broadway flop or buy a napoleon dick #he needs to keep the money rolling it to be the hippie in the desert #the inner workings of the company - like marcia getting a seat - don't matter to him just the profit #and i do think he probably senses none of the kids will last as ceo really #kaitlin speaks

[aedesluminis]

Literally the only good thing in Assassin's Creed Unity is having him staring at you like this.

#young napoleon #french revolution #ac unity #a single screenshot isn't worth the money i spent of that godamn game #if you like frev play something else please #napoleonic era #napoleon

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.”

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing changes.

#Napoleon Bonaparte #christianity #religion #in the world but not of the world #kingdom of god #god's kingdom #kingdom of heaven #religion of money #god needs money #religion is a mental illness

[robespapier]

Oh, to bring Stellio Lorenzi (La Terreur et la Vertu's director) back from the dead and give him Ridley's Scott budget for Napoleon...

#so much money so little heart #napoleon

[dove-da-birb]

i would buy all of those cursed greeting cards you made dove 😔

Argent!!!~

#sapph! #enjoy this napoleon one then #argent = money/silver in french

[captainknell]

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #antiques #meme #despicable me #money #cars

[empirearchives]

Napoleon & the creation of the tax collection system

Not wanting to impose new taxes on the people, the tax work under Napoleon was focused on reforming tax collection by creating a system which was more efficient, complete and equitable. He also worked to destroy the link which existed between private interests and state service concerning public revenue.

From Le prix de la gloire: Napoléon et l'argent by Pierre Branda. Translated by me, so any mistakes are my own 🙂

The [financial] work of the Consulate mainly concerns the reorganization of tax collection. Until now, this essential element was not administered directly by the Ministry of Finance. The Constituent Assembly had wanted the tax rolls for direct contributions, that is to say the “tax sheets”, to be established by municipal administrations. Their work was complex, since each year they had to draw up a list of taxpayers, determine each person’s share of tax and send them the amount of contribution to be paid. Unmotivated (or even corrupt), the municipalities had taken little care in the execution of their mission, since a large proportion of taxpayers had not yet received their tax assessments for Year VIII, or even from Year VII or year VI. Also, with two or three years of delay in preparing the rolls, it was not surprising that tax revenues were low (nearly 400 million francs were thus left in abeyance). If the mailing of tax matrices left much to be desired, the collection of direct contributions was not much better. The tax collector was not an agent of the administration either: this function was assigned to any person who was willing to collect taxes with the lowest possible commission (otherwise called “least collected”). With such a system, failures were numerous, often due to incompetence, but also due to the prevailing spirit of fraud. However, in their defense, the collectors’ profits were most of the time too low to provide such a service; so to compensate for their losses, they were “forced” to increase the number of small and big cheats. In any case, in such a troubled period, letting private individuals carry out such a delicate mission could only be dangerous for the regularity of public accounts. In short, the mode of operation of taxation that Bonaparte and Gaudin inherited was failing on all sides and threatened to sink the State.

One month after Gaudin’s appointment, on 13 December 1799, the Direction des contributions directes was created with the mission of establishing and sending tax matrices. This administration, dependent on the Ministry of Finance, was made up of a general director, 99 departmental directors and 840 inspectors and controllers. The organization of direct contributions became both centralized and pyramidal, the opposite of the previous system, decentralized and with a confused hierarchy. The work of preparing the rolls, for so long entrusted to local authorities, passed entirely “in the hands of the Minister of Finance” putting the taxpayer in direct contact with the administration. With the tax system now free of obstacles, the beneficial effects of such a measure were soon felt. With ardor, the agents of this new administration carried out considerable work: three series of tax rolls, that is to say more than one hundred thousand tax slips, were established in a single year. It must be said that the Ministry had not skimped on their salaries (6,000 francs per year for a director, 4,000 for an inspector and 1,800 for a controller), which was no doubt a factor in their success.

Reform of tax collection was slower. It wasn’t until 1804 that all tax collectors became civil servants. Under the Consulate, tax collectors were gradually replaced in the departments, then in the main towns, and finally in all communes whose tax rolls exceeded 15,000 francs. By the end of the Consulate, the entire tax administration was entirely dependent on the central government. Subsequently, the administration in charge of indirect taxation (taxes on tobacco, alcohol or salt), created on 25 February 1804 and known as the Régie des droits réunis, was built on the same pyramidal, centralized model. It was the same, later, for customs.

According to Michel Bruguière, historian of public finances, “Napoleon and Gaudin can be considered the builders of French tax administration. They had also developed and codified the essential principles of our tax law, so profoundly at variance with the rules of French law, since the taxpayer has nothing to do with it, while the administration has all the powers.” Having understood the true cause of the “financial plague”, Bonaparte wanted an effective, almost “despotic” instrument to avoid the unfortunate fate of his predecessors. As a good military man, he created a fiscal “army” to provide the regime with the sinews of war. It was also necessary to definitively break the link between private interests and state service in all matters concerning public revenue. The days of the fermiers généraux of the Ancien Régime and the “second-hand” tax collectors of the Directory were well and truly over. Napoleon Bonaparte’s fierce determination to centralize power in this area, as in many others, undoubtedly gave his regime the means to last.

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French:

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