#Napoleon's wives

[white-bow-tie]

aaand together. there was no plan in making this post or uniting them on one canvas but I just felt like that was needed thank you both [🎶] Napoleon \ Illya

#the song for this post... always imagined them dancing to it #can't tell why #the man from uncle #tmfu #illya kuryakin #napoleon solo #song: crane wives - curses #fan art #my art

[empirearchives]

Marie Louise’s reaction to Napoleon’s death

“I am just now in great uncertainty. The Gazette of Piedmont has announced in such a positive manner the death of the Emperor Napoleon, that it is hardly possible to doubt it any longer. I confess I was extremely startled at it, though I have never had any deep feelings of any kind for him. I cannot forget that he is the father of my son and that, far from behaving badly to me, as every one believes, he always showed me every consideration—the only thing one can look for in a political marriage. I was therefore very grieved at it and, though one should be glad that he has ended his unhappy life in a Christian manner, I could still have wished him many more years of happiness and life—provided that it was far away from me. In the uncertainty about it I have settled myself at Sala, not wishing to go to the theater till I know something positive. My health has become so frail that I have felt this shock.”

— Marie Louise’s letter to Countess Victoire (1821)

Source: Compiled by Charles A. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together With Numerous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Characters of People and Their Rulers

Marie Louise, deeply upset at not being informed of the news by her family in Vienna:

“I confess that what gave me most sorrow, in these circumstances, was that I had not had any official news, nor any private, friendly letter from Vienna—the only way by which such could reach me in safety. I confess that I expected more interest and affection on that side, and it gave me a cruel blow by showing me how little one can count on all one’s own people, and this grief can only be cured by time.”

Source: Edith E. Cuthell, An Imperial Victim: Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, Empress of the French, Duchess of Parma

#Marie Louise #Marie-Louise #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Napoleon’s death #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #french empire #19th century #history #the death of Napoleon #Charles A. Shriner #Edith E. Cuthell #Napoleon’s wives #Napoleon’s wife #empress Marie Louise

[josefavomjaaga]

The marshals' wives: first or family name?

Title is deliberately misleading because I'll be adding some husbands who were not marshals, simply because I do not have enough data (yet, I hope). This is something I've been wondering for some time: Some wives adressed their husbands in letters or private conversation by their first names, while others used the family name - which at least to me seems rather weird but apparently was far from uncommon. 

Can we put together a list of who did what? I wonder if there is a pattern.

In the "first name" camp, we find:

Aimée Davout (calling her marshal "Louis")

Auguste von Bayern (though I'm not sure how much weight her testimony has because apparently everybody called Eugène de Beauharnais simply "Eugène")

Hortense de Beauharnais (calling her husband "Louis")

ADDED: Laure Junot (at least sometimes referred to her husband as “Andoche”, thanks @snowv88)

In the "family name" camp, we have:

Josephine Bonaparte (still calling her Napoleon "Bonaparte" even when the latter was emperor)

Caroline Murat (calling her Joachim "Murat" in letters, I believe?)

Louise Lannes (? I think? She writes something like "Lannes has killed two wolves, you bet he's enjoying himself" to her mother from Portugal.)

Louise Soult-Berg (in her diary/itinerary, much to the astonishment of Soult's biographer Nicole Gotteri)

Cathérine Lefèbvre-Hübscher (apparently, at least she says "this still smells of Lefèbvre" when sniffing at her late husband's hat after his death, according to d’Agoult’s memoirs)

ADDED: Eugénie Oudinot (calls her husband “Oudinot”; thanks again @snowv88)

Does anybody have something to add to this list? How about Laure Junot? Julie Bonaparte? Désirée Bernadotte? Aglaé Ney? The wives of Larrey, Oudinot, Macdonald etc.? Are there letters from Madame Visconti to Marshal Berthier? Or from Elisabeth Berthier? Any letters or quotes by the wives of famous generals or other personalities of the era?

I would love to list as many examples as possible to see if people in both camps have something in common. Thanks to everybody who can help me out!

#napoleon's marshals #and their wives #family versus first name

[olive-garden-hoe]

No babe don’t listen to “The Well” by the Crane Wives and imagine a TF2 couple with it, you’re too hot to die haha

#appealing to a very small audience ik #the crane wives #the well by the crane wives #song imagination #tf2 #team fortress 2 #whatever you do don’t imagine engiespy to this song #especially not BLU spy x RED engie #haha who would do that #engiespy #practical espionage #napoleon complex #the song works with basically any ship tho #cuz they’re all emotionally constipated

[xinanigans]

Today I’m old now…. im probably classified as the “do you know him” tweet amongst the iPad baby generation

#exagerating but I feel old :( #didn’t even finish my stupid diorama thing yet #mannnnnnn #at least I finished my kbat #yay :) #happy birthday ihascupquake #and mao zedong’s wife #idk how many wives he has but uh yeah #and happy early birthday to Napoleon II #uni :3

[chiropteracupola]

for the palette asks: brendan and isaiah in ‘flesh’?

And I know that you mean so well / But I am not a vessel for your good intent...

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #the cavern saints #the hearth: isaiah de la croix #the knocker: brendan kelly #look at our fucked-up beast and also his boyfriend #despite the fact that we have constructed a Magnificent playlist for cavern saints I spent almost the entire drawing process listening #to Metal For Killing God/The Pope/Possibly Napoleon As Well To instead #anyway I Lost It repeatedly whilst drawing this (was working on four layers simultaneously just for inks) #I will admit I cheated and used a little bit of white in addition to the palette colors but I really wanted brendan's eyeshine to POP #anyway. caption lyrics from 'tongues and teeth' by the crane wives

[strawb3rry-shark]

salem absolutely can grill and is very passionate about it. on grill days there is a show down of matthew vs salem on who gets to grill. it is a terrifying battle.

#chnt #camp here and there #camp here & there #salem de la marnierre #matthew napoleon #two wives in one post #(my wives)

[flowwochair]

I cannot stop thinking about Must be Love by Laufey in an aimevout context specifically in Davout's perspective as he falls in love with Aimée, like just the line "You made a sappy stupid something out of me... The kind I swore I'd never be..." AGJSHHJFKJKDS CRYING AND SCREAMING AND THROWING FURNITURE YOU CANNOT TELL ME THIS ISN'T DAVOUT FALLING IN LOVE WITH AIMÉE PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG AND THINK ABOUT WHAT I AM SAYING HERE

anyways, speaking of aimevout: I am planning to release the other chapters of my fic when I finish chapter 4, I didn't even realize till now but I received my ao3 invite finally, I'll post here when I upload the other chapters ^-^

#napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon's marshals and their wives #louis nicolas davout #aimée leclerc #aimée davout #aimevout #rhodo rambles #rhodo update #Spotify

[annebrontesrequiem]

Love only caring about men in fiction because the women around them make them more interesting <3

#this also applies to napoleon who I only care about because I care about his wives and sisters #bern speaks

[skitskatdacat63]

‘draw them but dont post them’ catie if you ever feel comfortable to post them i’d love to see your ocs bestie <333

Aaaa thank you anon!!! <33

I've not been able to draw properly for a bit so I only have sketches and older art of them. I wanted to draw smth for this ask but then used all of my energy on Nando, so pls take this older stuff :)

#not all of them obviously! #i think i have like 36 or so? #but the first two are my beloved wives #and the third is my blorbo #the 4th is two of my planet personifications :D they are gods :) #the 5th is just a character i find very fun to draw. she is also just evil >:) #its funny bcs the first is technically my most recently created oc(2020 UGH) but i love her the most #but man all my papers from my classes the past month just started getting covered w my ocs #especially all the god ocs bcs they have fun designs #but i just sketch the top 2 constantly like just every paper istg ends up w a portrait or chibi of either of them #oh wait yeah! the 2nd is the oc i said is the reason i draw napoleonic stuff! she is French after all :) #and also the 2nd and 3rd are my top oc ship #...and the 1st and 2nd are my other other top ship 🫣 #she has two hands okay!!! #basically my habit w drawings is to draw them naked and draw clothes on top like theyre paper dolls #but i go layer by layer so then i end up giving up halfway thru #the third drawing is horrible bcs im drawing a napoleonic uniform(typical) but my brain is like: #'draw every single layer of clothing !!!!!!!' #also #all my ocs are either: #very tall generally bold women or short gnc suffering blorbos #so...my type and me LMFAO #but seriously half of them are like 6 fr plus women 😭😭😭😭😭 i need to be stopped #okay anyways it feels weird to post these bcs i mostly only show my friends #but these are my blorbos are i love them dearly and today you have learned a lot more abt me shdjkg #catie.art. #catie.rambling.txt #catie.asks.

[captainknell]

When I went to the Harmon Museum to see that death mask the other day and they were having a flea market and I walked straight up to a table of books and found these!

Napoleon His Wives and Women by Christopher Hibbert

And

The Student's History of France from 1869 (the latter half is mostly about Napoleon)

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #books #Napoleon his wives and women #christopher hibbert #the students history of france

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Marie Walewska

François Gérard

National Museum in Warsaw

#one of my favorite paintings of Marie #François Gérard #Marie Walewska #Marie #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #walewska #first french empire #french empire #19th century #1800s #history #france #art #painting #paintings #Napoleon’s wives #Napoleon’s mistresses #Polish art #French art

[josefavomjaaga]

Soult's letters to his wife. A ton of them.

😭

Anybody happens to have 15,000 Euros he doesn't know what to do with?

(Also: Soult apparently wrote no less than 17 letters to Louise during the 6 weeks he was in London 😊.)

#napoleon's marshals #and their wives #jean de dieu soult #louise berg-soult

[mycological-mariner]

Hm, I’m not feeling very creative. *two cups of coffee and a Crane Wives song later*

So anyways here’s my short historical horror story I wrote while out of my mind in 15 minutes

#I blame it on me reading so much about the Napoleonic wars recently #I’m reading The Lady Tars and I just saw a painting of the Battle of St Vincent and it kinda just clicked #and I thought about yeah all the people who’s stories are told are the officers and midshipman and those few who are recognised for #outstanding acts and such #but war’s war and the absolute horror that comes along with it #also I was a MASSIVE Poe and Stephen King fan as a kid #as much as I write fantasy and comedies and such - I got my roots in horror #the Fucked Up of True sort lol #ALSO I was just thinking about this book I read when I was 15 - the knife of never letting go #and having just been on a run of the Aubrey Maturin novels and a reread of Left Hand of Darkness #it was only inevitable I’d write something #I wanna write historical fiction but I always end up in horror territory lol #anyways I recently started listening to The Crane Wives! ‘Take Me To War’ is a banger #anyways #this isn’t for nanowrimo I just had to write it down before I forgot #I’m gonna redo it - the core of it got kinda muddy #also I’m high on a little coffee #feels good to feel creative again! #I’ve been so low lately I love it! #also I really like reading old logs and newspaper clippings about military actions and the numbers kinda got me thinking #impersonal violence man.

[seriemorder]

is the book on the women in napoleon's life "al cuore dell'impero"? if yes. nice. i read it too, it's really good. if not, uhh. book rec i guess

it is! ive been dying to read it but ive so been sidetracked </3

#when i did research i also found 'napoleon: his wives and women' by hibbert #but i made a mistake and read the reviews and they werent good so i put it bottom of the list

[contact-guy]

watson's sketchbook

helloooo this is a MASTER POST of my Sherlock Holmes annotations, aka shitpost doodles of my favorite parts with occasional headcanons. I will pin this so it's available and update it as I go because this feels like it's becoming a full series, god help me.

I'm reading the stories in the order they occurred (according to Baring-Gould, who I am currently arm wrestling in the astral plane over how many wives Watson had) so that's how I will present them!

EDIT: decided to draw them in the order that makes sense to me, Baring-Gould you’re too silly

EDIT 2: this is basically a webcomic at this point, with ongoing continuity and a romantic storyline that can be enjoyed if you read in order. I did not intend this, but I have Sherlock Holmes disease and there's only one cure (doing this)

A Study in Scarlet 🩸

The Speckled Band 🐍

The Resident Patient 🩺

The Noble Bachelor 👰

The Second Stain 📮

The Reigate Squires 📝

The Dancing Men 👯‍♂️

Silver Blaze 🏇🏻

The Six Napoleons ⚫️

The Red Circle 🕯️🪟

The Greek Interpreter 🩹

Mycroft Interlude 🎩

The Beryl Coronet 🥪

The Yellow Face 🙂

The Hound of the Baskervilles 🐺

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

-Part Six

-Part Seven

The Gloria Scott ⚓️

The Valley of Fear 🏰

-Part One

-Part Two

Shoscombe Old Place 🎣

Charles Augustus Milverton 💌

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

#sherlock holmes #john watson #acd holmes #acd canon #my art #watsons sketchbook