#claude-victor perrin

[captainknell]

Happy birthday Marshal Victor! December 7, 1764

#marshal victor #claude-victor perrin #napoleons marshals #happy birthday

[northernmariette]

Happy birthday, Marshal Victor!

Too bad it's on the same day as Ney's execution, for which you voted yes. In fairness, you later regretted your vote, but that was a bit late.

Victor started to write his memoirs, but did not get very far before he died. I started to read them on Gallica and found a delicious portrait of Général Carteaux (read his biography on Wikipédia; he was a better painter than he was a military man), whose claim to fame or infamy was not recognizing Naps's nascent genius at Toulon.

But then Gallica went all buggy on me and I was unable to access Victor's book again.

I turned instead to an interesting site called napoleon-monuments.eu. The site seems to have some English language components which I did not explore. For those who read french, I do recommend it as it offers a lot of information, including a multitude of photographs of various buildings and monuments taken by the site's creator.

Back to Victor. I searched for him on the site, and i found a long extract from a 1900 book about the Marshals. I will translate, and roughly at that, only this short passage regarding Victor' time as governor of Berlin in 1807 and 1808. I chose it because, evil one that I am, I expect it will get a rise from @josefavomjaaga !

"His administration was so gentle and so temperate that when, after fifteen months, he left his post, the city of Berlin wished to give him a large amount of money in recognition. Victor refused to accept it, but he did have to accept the gift of at least eight magnificent horses lest he cause offense to those who showed him such touching gratitude. To one who expressed astonishment at such abnegation, Victor replied : "I will always prefer a laudable reputation to great wealth."

#claude victor #claude-victor perrin #napoleon's marshals #marshal victor

[josefavomjaaga]

Brun de Villeret about Marshal Victor

Claude-Victor Perrin aka Marshal Victor is one of the marshals I know the least about. So I was quite happy to find Soult’s aide de camp Brun de Villeret wrote a bit about him in his Cahiers. As this journal was never intended for publication, it’s likely to contain Brun’s honest (if possibly exaggerated) opinion.

Victor was, together with Mortier, one of the marshals who found themselves under the superior command of one marshal Soult during their sojourn in Spain (and didn’t like it one bit). Victor specifically was tasked with the siege of Cadix. When Napoleon sent Masséna into Portugal in the third and last attempt to occupy the country, he demanded Soult come to his support. Soult decided to besiege the fort of Badajoz together with Mortier and for that purpose had to take a larger number of troops from Andalusia into Estremadura, stretching himself dangerously thin. The Spanish troops in Cadix used that opportunity to attack Victor’s siege forces and even had some small successes before being driven back into Cadix. As Brun puts it:

[...] Some of our redoubts had been taken and demolished. The damage was easily repaired, however, and the Duke of Bellune could only congratulate himself on his victory and the way he had conducted his business.

Unfortunately, the gloomy mood which dominated him and still dominates him in all the circumstances of life, led him to believe that the Duke of Dalmatia had wanted to sacrifice him, by weakening the forces he had in Andalusia and taking the Duke of Treviso to Estremadura. He wrote him bitter and reproachful letters. As I was on fairly intimate terms with him, given that my brother was one of his aides-de-camp and had his confidence, the Duke of Dalmatia thought it appropriate to send me to him as a mediator, with the mission of trying to soothe his bad mood.

I see. The Brun brothers. Unofficial psychotherapists of the Armée de Midi.

I found him furious. He had retired to bed and received me while in bed. For two hours, his ravings were so violent that it was impossible for me to reach the end of a sentence. Finally, exhausted from shouting, he allowed me to speak.

Brun: Can I say something now?

Victor [sheepish]: Yes. I am hoarse and my throat hurts.

I managed to make him understand that with his talents, his reputation and three divisions as fine as his own, he should not be surprised that the Duke of Dalmatia had counted on him to defend his lines and cover the south of Andalusia. "You have," I finally said, "responded perfectly to this hope and added a fine jewel to your military crown. For our part, we have obtained great results [...] In short, since success has crowned your defence as well as our undertaking, you would be doing yourself a disservice in the eyes of the Emperor if you were to cast a negative light on what has been achieved." While I was speaking, his face had become serious, and he had resumed that air of benevolence he had always treated me with, when I did not have to address him on his relations with the Duke of Dalmatia. He even showed me the most delicate attentions and sent me away very satisfied with the result of my mission, and bearing answers written in a perfectly moderate style. I knew how to deal with him, and the Duke of Dalmatia knew it too: let him exhaust his ire and his verve. Afterwards, he would listen to reason. Also, during my stay in Spain, I had the opportunity to carry out several missions of the same kind.

One of them apparently included Victor shouting to Brun for another hour about how Soult never sent him enough food and how he was about to starve with his troops, before Brun finally could present him all certificates of receipt for Victor’s corps, proofing that the food Victor claimed was missing had very well arrived, and announce that Soult, nevertheless, had sent off some more boats with food for Victor’s corps. As Brun remarks at this occasion, Victor was "a better warrior than a good administrator".

But my favourite part about the scene Brun describes is that Victor apparently, all the time while he was raging to Brun about Soult’s injustice, was lying in bed. So he was like, yelling at the ceiling, his head in the pillows? Did he also wear a night gown and a sleeping cap?

#napoleon's marshals #claude victor perrin #jean de dieu soult #napoleonic era #peninsular war #siege of cadix

[impetuous-impulse]

Victor Meets Bonaparte, 1793

7 December, 1764 is Victor’s birthday. To be topical on the same day, let me detail the first meeting between Victor, then still using the name Claude Perrin, and the young artillery captain Napoleone Buonaparte at the Siege of Toulon. I will use the two Victor biographies I have access to: one by veternarian-turned-writer Jacques Le Costumier, the second by Jean-Pierre Tarin, who, in his avant-propos, accuses Le Costumier of publishing "a catalogue of errors" instead of a biography. The two authors illustrate the ways the same historical evidence can be spun in different ways to further different narratives about Victor and Bonaparte’s initial relationship. All translation errors are my own.

To set the scene, the man who would become Victor went to Toulon under the command of General Carteaux, where he was appointed adjutant-général chef de brigade (colonel) of a brigade of volunteers on 2 October 1793. Bonaparte, as I will call him for clarity, had been called to replace Carteaux’s commandant of artillery Dommartin on 7 September 1793, after the latter was shot in the shoulder and was unable to make his appointment to Toulon. General Doppet came to aid Carteaux after quelling resistance in Lyon, and Carteaux was replaced by General Dugommier on 16 November.

Here is how both biographies describe their meeting, with Tarin more extensively quoting Victor’s unpublished Memoires (1846):

Following his valourous conduct during the affair [a counter-attack at Arenes] on 30 November, Bonaparte was appointed adjutant-general [basically colonel]. "It was then that he became more particularly acquainted with Victor, whom Dugommier had brought from the left to the right of the Army. The Commander of artillery visited the quarters of the colonel of Volunteers every morning and took him to visit the batteries; relations of esteem and intimacy were promptly establisehd between them. In this moment perhaps, Bonaparte inscribed Victor among the number of Napoleon’s lieutenants, and perhaps Victor foresaw the conqueror he was to accompany, throughout all of Europe, on triumphant courses. Already, no doubt, he admired the surety of his certainty of his glance, the boldness of his plans, the promptness of its execution and the energy of his character.” (p. 34)

Le Costumier is eager to reinforce how dazzled Victor is by Bonaparte.

The Lorrainian historian Michel Caffier reproduces the remarks Victor would have made in Paris, two years later on Bonaparte. “What surprises me most about this man who entered the [military] career by his mathematical spirit is his appetite for reading. At Toulon, I saw him devour the works of Tacitus, [Michel de] Montaigne, Plato, Racine, and Livy which are not habitual companions of the bivouac. I was surprised by him. He replied to me: ‘I always find something to learn.’ Bonaparte for me, has a mind that thinks, and above all as we have seen in his reactions on the night of 12 Vendemaire, he has a mind that thinks fast. [...] His career will not end here. He knows how to command, to act. He also reflects and I saw him at Toulon writing a document for the Academy of Lyon on the verities and feelings that are most important to instill in men for their happiness.” (pp. 27-28)

Let us put aside the fact that the veracity of Victor’s statements, not to mention the later date at which he wrote them with how he uses “Bonaparte”, a spelling only used since 1796, instead of “Buonaparte”. Let us admire that Le Costumier has created a perfect picture of Victor being won over by Bonaparte during the Revolution. Tarin is not so sure, however:

Let us refrain from all abusive extrapolations: fraternity of arms, no doubt, esteem certainly, but as to intimacy… The general Doppet wrote in his memoirs about Bonaparte: “This young officer never left his batteries.” […] It was therefore at this moment that relations were established between Victor and Bonaparte which, “without having presented a great character of intimacy, nevertheless did not remain without influence on the state of the military career" of the Vosgien. (pp. 34)

Here’s the kicker: the first quote is from Doppet’s memoirs (he died in 1799, so there is no doubt they are contemporary). The second quote is from Biographies contemporaines, Vol. I by A. Boullée, published in 1863. Tarin uses these quotes combined to declare Victor and Bonaparte’s intimacy as only “plausible”. He also posits that rapport was borne of a similar career path, not of natural friendship, and that Victor was quite normal about Bonaparte:

Furthermore, the fact that both were artillerymen had obviously played a role, even if Victor did not have the same level of theoretical knowledge as Bonaparte; this is what we call espirit de corps. […] On this occasion, it seems fair to say that Victor admired Bonaparte’s qualities. He experienced what all his contemporaries recognised. (ibid.)

So, was Victor under Bonaparte’s spell from the start? Quite hard to tell, considering we only have Victor's memoirs as evidence. It is still highly interesting to read Victor's account of their meeting, considering he was one of few soldiers Napoleon had known since Toulon, aside from Junot and Marmont, that stayed under his influence until the Empire collapsed. And out of these three, two went over to the Bourbons at the first chance, while the other went mad in his devotion.

#claude victor perrin #napoleon bonparte #memoirs #frev #kind of #le maréchal victor: loyal sous napoléon fidèle sous le restauration (2006) #le maréchal victor (2004)

[armagnac-army]

I DEMAND YOU CREATE ANOTHER POLL !! And do not call it a “pity poll” unless you want your house flooded with my vikings

-Bernadotte

MARSHALATE PITY BALLOT

VOTE FOR ONE OF THE LESS POPULAR LES GRANDE CHAPEAUX!!! SOMEHOW BERTHIER THE NERD WON THE FIRST POLLE WITH ME IN SECOND PLACE SO LETS DO THIS SHIT AGAIN

IN CASE YOU DONT KNOW WHO WE ARE WE HAVE A "OUIKIPEDIA PAGE" ALL ABOUT US AND OUR BIG HATS BUT LONG STORY SHORT WERE NAPOLEONS TOP COMMANDERS WHO FUCK SHIT UP FOR HIM

SO ONCE AGAIN VOTE FOR WHOEEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT WHETHER THATS THE BEST OR THE SEXIEST OR THE MOST PATHETIC

YOU CAN EVEN STUFF THE BALLOTS IF YOU WANT THE EMPEROR DID IT SO WHY NOT YOU

This is a public service announcement. Do not engage in vote manipulation. -Maréchal Soult

IVE DEFINITELY NOT FORGOTTEN ANYONE THIS TIME AND THERES NOBODY SNEAKING ONTO THE BALLOT!!!!

FEEL FREE TO POST PROPAGANDA OR ANTI PROPAGANDA WE WILL SHARE IT IF ITS FUNNY

ALSO DO SHARE THIS SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHO WINS THE PITY VOTE AND MAYBE PIT THEM AGAINST BERTHIER IN A CAGE FIGHT

WHERES GROUCHY

#exchanges with that guy who is now swedish #dispatches from the marshal #napoleon's marshals #marshalate popularity poll #marshalate popularity ballot

[cadmusfly]

Tag Yourself: Unabridged Shitty Drawing Marshal of the Empire Edition

Yes All 26 Of Them + Bonus 2

drawn and compiled by yours truly, initial and probably inaccurate research assisted by Chet Jean-Paul Tee, additional research from Napoleon and his Marshals by A G MacDonnell, Swords Around A Throne by John R Elting and a bunch of other books and Wikipedia pages

captions under images

mike (Michel Ney)

- full of every emotion

- always has ur back

joe (Joachim Murat)

- it's called fashion sweetheart

- will not stop flirting

lens (Jean Lannes)

- bestie who will call u out on ur shit

- does not like their photo taken

bessie (Jean-Baptiste Bessieres)

- actually nice under the ice

- was born in the wrong generation

dave (Louis-Nicolas Davout)

- overachiever

- 20 year old boomer

salt (Jean-de-Dieu Soult)

- people think ur up to no good

- doesn’t cope with sudden changes 2 plans

andrew (Andre Massena)

- actually up to no good

- sleepy until special interest is activated

bertie (Louis-Alexandre Berthier)

- carries the group project

- voted most likely to make a stalker shrine

auggie (Pierre Augereau)

- shady past full of batshit stories

- will not stop swearing in the christian minecraft server

lefrank (François Joseph Lefebvre)

- dad friend

- in my day we walked to school uphill both ways

big mac (Étienne Macdonald)

- brutally honest

- won't let you borrow their charger even if they have 100%

gill (Guillaume Brune)

- love-hate relationship with group chats

- pretends not to care, checks social media every 2 minutes

ouchie (Nicholas Oudinot)

- needs to buy bandages in bulk

- a little aggro

pony (Józef Antoni Poniatowski)

- can't swim

- tries 2 hard to fit in, everyone secretly loves them anyway

grumpy (Emmanuel de Grouchy)

- can't find them when u need them

- complains about the music, never suggests alternatives

bernie (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)

- always talks about their other friendship group

- most successful, nobody knows how

monty (Auguste de Marmont)

- does not save u a seat

- causes drama and then lurks in the background

monch (Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey)

- last to leave the party

- dependable

morty (Édouard Mortier)

- everyone looks up 2 them literally and figuratively

- golden retriever friend

jordan (Jean-Baptiste Jourdan)

- volunteers other people for things

- has 20+ alarms but still oversleeps

kelly (François Christophe de Kellermann)

- old as balls but still got it

- waiting in the wings

gov (Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr)

- infuriatingly modest about their art skills

- thinks too much before they speak

perry (Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon)

- low-key rich, only buys things on sale

- “let’s order pizza” solution to everything

sachet (Louis-Gabriel Suchet)

- dependable friend who always brings snacks

- lowkey keeps the group together

cereal (Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier)

- unnervingly methodical and precise about fun

- will delete your social media after u die

vic (Claude Victor-Perrin)

- loves spicy food but can’t handle it

- says they're fine, not actually fine

Bonus!

june (Jean Andoche Junot)

- chaotic disaster bisexual

- will kill a man 4 their bestie

the rock (Géraud Duroc)

- keeps a tidy house

- mom friend with snacks

#napoleon’s marshals #napoleonic era #napoleonic shitposting #napoleonic wars #history shitposting #cadmus draws #I thought it would be funny if it was hand drawn #i had to draw these over a few weeks or else my RSI ridden fingers would explode #I will reblog this a few times because this is so stupid and I’m proud of this #yes chatgpt helped because I’m not actually familiar with most of the 26 #ended up editing a lot of it but some entries are less based on history and more based on vibes #and as we know vibes are extremely accurate

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

#napoleonic sexyman tournament #new pinned post for now

[alexlacquemanne]

Avril MMXXII

Films

Death Proof (2007) de Quentin Tarantino avec Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rose McGowan, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito et Sydney Tamiia Poitier

The Battle of the Sexes (1959) de Charles Crichton avec Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark, Ernest Thesiger et Donald Pleasence

Le Bal des casse-pieds (1992) de Yves Robert avec Jean Rochefort, Jacques Villeret, Victor Lanoux, Miou-Miou, Sandrine Caron, Jean Carmet et Odette Laure

Le Gentleman d'Epsom (1962) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Paul Frankeur, Franck Villard, Madeleine Robinson et Joëlle Bernard

La Comtesse de Hong-Kong (A Countess from Hong Kong) (1967) de Charlie Chaplin avec Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Tippi Hedren, Margaret Rutherford et Sydney Chaplin

La Banquière (1980) de Francis Girod avec Romy Schneider, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Carmet et Jean-Louis Trintignant

La Grande Vadrouille (1966) de Gérard Oury avec Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas, Claudio Brook, Mike Marshall, Marie Dubois, Pierre Bertin et Andréa Parisy

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) de Jacques Demy avec Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Danielle Darrieux et Michel Piccoli

Le Mans (1971) de Lee H. Katzin avec Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen et Luc Merenda

Ma famille t'adore déjà ! (2016) de Jérôme Commandeur et Alan Corno avec Arthur Dupont, Déborah François, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel, Jérôme Commandeur, Valérie Karsenti, Sabine Azéma, Éric Berger et Alicia Endemann

Séries

Kaamelott Livre IV, III

La Baliste II - Les Bonnes - La Révolte III - Le Rapport - L’Art de la table - Les Novices - Les Refoulés - Les Tuteurs II - Le Tourment IV - Le Rassemblement du corbeau II - Le Grand Départ - L’Auberge rouge - Les Curieux 1re partie - Les Curieux 2e partie - La Clandestine - Les Envahisseurs - La vie est belle - La Relève - Les Tacticiens 1re partie - Les Tacticiens 2e partie - Drakkars ! - La Réponse - Unagi IV - La Permission - Anges et Démons - La Rémanence - Silbury Hill II - Le repos du guerrier II - La poétique : 1e partie - La poétique : 2e partie - Cryda de Tintagel - Le déserteur - Les Suppléants - Le petit poucet - L'Ivresse II - La Potion de Vérité - Les Cousins - La Corne d'abondance - L'abstinent - Le Refuge - Le Dragon gris - La Potion de vivacité II - Vox populi III - La Sonde - La Réaffectation - La Poétique II : 1re partie - La Poétique II : 2e partie - Le Jeu de la guerre - Le Rêve d’Ygerne - Les Chaperons - L’Habitué - Le Camp romain - L’Usurpateur - Loth et le Graal - Le Paladin - Perceval fait ritournelle - La Dame et le Lac - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien - L’Ultimatum

Starsky et Hutch Saison 3, 4

Collection - La Folie du jeu - Le Poids lourd - Garde d'un corps - Le Piège - Sorcellerie - Le Professeur - La Corvée - Discomania - Ultimatum - La Photo - À votre santé

Columbo Saison 4, 5

Réaction négative - Tout n’est qu’illusion

Le Visiteur du Futur Saison 1

La Canette - La Pizza - La Copine - Le Casse-dalle - Le Policier - Le Policier Bis - La Réalité - Le Plan - Les Robots-Tueurs - La Bière - L'Aïeul - La Vérité - La Dépression - Le Docteur - L'Individu Perturbateur - Le Présent du Visiteur - Le Présent de la Brigade Temporelle - L'Échappée - Le Destin de Raph - La Traque - Spoilers ! - The end of the world as we know it

La Ligue des Justiciers Saison 1

L'Invasion : 1re partie - L'invasion : 2e partie - L'invasion : 3e partie - Au Cœur de la nuit : 1re partie - Au Cœur de la nuit : 2e partie

Meurtres au paradis saison 11

Enlèvement - Frères ennemis - Toujours plus haut - Un vent de Jamaïque

Le Coffre à Catch

#67 : Quand la WWE innove c'est bien ! - #68 : Qui se souvient de ce Triple Catch ?! - #69 : LA ECW VEND DU RÊVE

Dix pour cent Saison 2

Virginie et Ramzy - Fabrice - Norman - Isabelle - Guy - Juliette

The Grand Tour Saison 2, 3, 1

Les garçons du Niagara - Des Jaaaaags ! - Oh, Canada - Courses de Noël - Nouveau record - Oh oui, de l'essence - Bagages et vintage - Les Buggy Beach Boys : première partie - Les Buggy Beach Boys : seconde partie - Gare à l'Urus - Aston, astronautes et les enfants d’Angelina - Course polaire - Coup de vieux - Mozambique

Doctor Who

Legend of the Sea Devils

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Quand les souris dansent

Livres

La colère de Fantômas, tome 1 : Les bois de justice d'Olivier Bocquet et Julie Rocheleau

Kaamelott, tome 3 : L'Énigme du Coffre d'Alexandre Astier, Steven Dupré et Benoît Bekaert

C'est bon mais c'est chaud d'Antoine de Caunes

La colère de Fantômas, tome 2 : Tout l'or de Paris d'Olivier Bocquet et Julie Rocheleau

La colère de Fantômas, tome 3 : À tombeau ouvert d'Olivier Bocquet et Julie Rocheleau

Astérix, tome 15 : La Zizanie de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Haute Tension de Richard Castle

#mediatheque #avril22

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.3 (before 1940)

915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date). 1775 – American Revolutionary War: USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones. 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch. 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war. 1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. 1834 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany. 1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. 1859 – Nigeria's first newspaper, missionary Henry Townsend's Iwe Irohin, was published. 1881 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published. 1898 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeats an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football. 1901 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) 1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded. 1925 – Final agreement is signed between the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom formalizing the Partition of Ireland. 1929 – President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech. 1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.

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[joachimnapoleon]

Claude-Victor Perrin (known as Victor), Marshal of the French Empire & Duke of Belluno (7 December 1764 – 1 March 1841)

(Dedicated to @northernmariette; I don't really have the time to do any serious research on Victor at the moment, so some excerpts from Elting will have to suffice.)

The first marshal made after the original 1804 list, Claude-Victor Perrin, commonly known as "Victor," was always something of a problem child. His father, a well-to-do farmer in southern Loirraine, had hoped to make a magistrate of him, but Victor got away from home at fifteen to be a soldier. He was too young to enlist, but Artillerie Regiment La Frère signed him up as a musician because of his skill with the clarinet. He never was a drummer, as sloppy writers would have it, but does seem to have risen to trompette d'harmonie (first trumpet). His mother persuaded him to buy his discharge in 1791. He married and became a municipal employee in Valence, but, with Volunteer battalions mustering to defend la Patrie, nine months of civilian existence was all he could take. He reenlisted and was a sergeant immediately; he became a battalion commander in 1792 and general of brigade in 1793. Like Augereau and Lannes, he served on the Spanish frontier, then in Italy. Napoleon made him a general of division in 1797.

He got his baton for particularly excellent service at Friedland in 1807, where his prompt advance in the French center renewed an attack compromised by Ney's showy bungling. He was in Spain from 1808 to 1812. In that latter year he functioned as a rear-area commander in Russia, protecting the Grande Armée's communications. He served competently in 1813, but 1814 saw him lagging. During the Hundred Days he fled with Louis XVIII; after Waterloo the Bourbons slathered him with honors and used him to purge the army of officers who might be hostile to them. He showed every indication of enjoying that assignment.

Victor was never particularly friendly toward Napoleon and had the general reputation of an unruly subordinate and unreliable comrade. His intelligence was only moderate, and Augereau remarked on his lack of education. Undoubtedly there was a mean streak in him; he frequently blamed his subordinates for his mistakes, and--so long as his troops showed discipline in action--allowed them to pillage and abuse civilians, even in France. His temper was hot and hair-triggered.

At the same time he was an excellent organizer, instructor, and tactician. Ina action he was audacious, quick to see and strike the decisive point; in Spain at Ucles (1808) and Medellin (1809) he brought off literal battles of annihilation, enveloping and destroying Spanish armies. His spendid rearguard stand to cover the Grande Armée's retreat across the Beresina River in 1812 suggests that he had studied Wellington's tactics in Spain. He taught his men to shoot straight and drilled them in full field equipment to accustom them to its weight and to get it fitted properly.

--John R. Elting, Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armée

#Claude-Victor Perrin #Napoleon's marshals

[isa-ko]

More cartoon-ish (I think) marshals

#napoleonic #napoleonic wars #napoleon’s marshals #french marshals #claude victor perrin #marshal victor #french history

[histoireettralala]

Marengo (2/3)

It is not the first time that he has been confronted with such a situation. Already, in 1796, in the Army of the Rhine, he had learned that the course of a battle can easily be reversed, as soon as one knows how to take into account the balance of power and especially when one can decide quickly, very quickly.

But this situation, how does it present itself? Part of the French were turned back, but it was possible to regroup them as soon as the men, seeing the reserves arriving, regained their confidence. Desaix quickly set out his plan: to reconstitute heavy artillery fire by arranging his own guns and those of Marmont, meaning, about eighteen pieces, which would be simultaneously directed at the two extremities of the Austrian army; to mass in tight columns the fresh brigades to support those which have been fighting since dawn; restructure the consular guard - this "granite redoubt", as Berthier said, to have an appropriate instrument of resistance, finally, to attempt at an opportune moment a dazzling cavalry charge intended to create a psychological shock both among the French and among their opponents.

Sitting in the grass with Bonaparte, the general ends his presentation, which raises no objections. According to Napoleon, who would say later that he had, at that moment, "the foreboding of his death", he seems gloomy and even disillusioned when an artillery discharge exploding a few meters from him, he confides to the First Consul: " Ah! The cannonballs no longer recognize me. "

At this precise moment of the day, the Austrian army, faced with the inertia of the French who retreated, advances in music as in the parade, convinced that the fight is over [..]

The Austrians' taste for music was going to be fatal to them, for suddenly, at four in the afternoon, a burst of cannonballs fell on them. At first surprised, the white uniforms throw themselves to the ground, desperately looking for where the blow came from.

The plan imagined by Desaix is ​​set up in less than an hour. The fight begins again, more violent, fiercer, bloodier than the previous one, with this rage to win that the French now feel deep in their stomachs. The formidable war machine of this army which, under the tricolor flag, has never bent, on the Rhine as well as in Egypt and Italy, begins to function in a compact mass, bringing together one by one its dispersed elements like so many drops of water joining the mother river until composing this imperious torrent which nothing can resist. And here come Lannes, Murat, Monnier, Victor and Gardanne who, meter by meter, are rapidly reconquering this territory of rutted furrows that they had abandoned a few hours earlier, in turn jostling the enemy battalions who are now retreating under the assault [..]

General Desaix begins to feel the weakness of the adversary; his artillery is doing wonders now, but he feels it will not be enough. They must go further, faster. Already, the Austrian ranks are starting to break up and a breach is emerging on the side of the cavalry. The time has come to make a new decision, arguably the biggest in his life [..]

What to do ? Wait for Bonaparte's orders? But the latter has already left for the other end of the plain. Behind him he hears the 9th Light Brigade pawing the ground impatiently [..] And here he is, gently [..] raising the sword he is holding in his right hand. This is the signal: everyone is holding their breath.

The late afternoon sun floods the battlefield with light [..]

Suddenly he brutally lowers his saber and throws his horse with a thrust. A collective howl salutes his order and, in a cloud of dust, a thousand horsemen charge at full gallop on the Austrians paralyzed by the audacity of such an enterprise. The violence of the shock is incredible [..]

In the melee, all of a sudden, Desaix slips off his horse, under the gaze of Second Lieutenant Lebrun who follows him and who immediately jumps to the ground to come to his aid. For a second, their eyes meet [..]

It is now six o'clock.

The frenzy of the fight is such that Lebrun must get back on his horse and continue, leaving behind the corpse of his general. There will be others, fifteen thousand in this day, six thousand on the French side and more than nine thousand on the Austrian side.

Gonzague Saint Bris - Desaix, le sultan de Bonaparte

#napoleonic #gonzague saint bris #desaix le sultan de bonaparte #louis charles antoine desaix #battle of marengo #jean lannes #joachim murat #jean charles monnier #claude victor perrin #gaspard amédée gardanne #auguste viesse de marmont #anne-charles lebrun

[microcosme11]

Victor and Napoleon’s dust-up in 1814

“In February 1814, Marshal Victor arrived at the Battle of Montereau later than Napoleon had ordered. The Emperor was furious. He deprived Victor of the command of his corps and told him to leave the army.

‘The Duke of Belluno, with deep mortification received the Emperor’s permission to quit the army. He repaired to Surville, and with powerful emotion appealed against this decision. Napoleon gave free vent to his indignation and overwhelmed the unfortunate Marshal with expressions of his displeasure. He reproached him for reluctance in the discharge of his duties, for withdrawing from the Imperial headquarters, and for even manifesting a certain degree of opposition, which was calculated to produce mischievous effects in a camp.’ ”

[Interesting story follows: Napoleon relents quite a bit, tries to make up with Victor. After the abdication, Victor dumps Napoleon permanently for Louis XVIII and is pretty vengeful toward other Bonaparte officers, Ney in particular. He continues his career and gets into trouble again, not really his fault.]

Shannon Selin, quoting Agathon-Jean-François Fain, The Manuscript of 1814: A history of events which led to the abdication of Napoleon (London, 1823), pp. 116-119.

#Claude-Perrin Victor #Napoleon's marshals

[northernmariette]

Happy birthday, Marshal Victor!

Well, Marshal Victor’s birthday was a dud in the Napoleonic world I frequent on Tumblr. To make things worse, having mislaid my McDonnell book about the marshals, now I can’t find my Jean Tulard dictionary. So these little tidbits I’m about to offer are fragmentary and from memory.

Victor’s actual name was Claude-Victor Perrin. I don’t know why he dropped the family name to use only his given names.

If memory serves, Victor, like Davout and Lannes, divorced his first wife. And if memory is not totally wecked, like Masséna he was a grocer for a while. 

Napoleon and Victor first met at Toulon, so if I’m not mistaken, Victor was the first of the future Marshals  to be acquainted with Naps.

MAt Friedland, Victor was replacing a wounded Bernadotte. The thought has crossed my mind that one reason Naps made Victor a Marshal was to get up Bernadotte’s nose, as in “See? Anybody can replace you and be just as good or better than you, Bernadotte-the-Marshal-because-you’re-my-brother-in-law.”

Marmont was not the only Marshal who voted in favour of Ney’s execution; several others did too. Victor was one of them. The execution took place on his exact birthday. However, Victor regretted this vote later in life. He atoned for it by fasting every year on December 7. I guess his relatives knew not to come up with a birthday cake until the next day.

At St. Helena, Napoleon said “Victor was better [as a military man] than people think.”

#claude victor #napoleon's marshals #marshals' save-the-date calendar

[impetuous-impulse]

Ney’s Execution; Victor’s Remorse

If, in the year of 1815, all eyes are turned to Luxembourg, it is not to admire the Haute Chambre itself, but because a resounding event took place there: Ney first appeared before a council of war that declared itself incompetent; according to his own wishes, he is brought before the Chamber of Peers constituting a Court of Justice. A climate of revenge permeates royalist circles, excepting the King, a fine politician, who would have done without a lynching. His entourage, however, burns to make an example, a sort of expiatory sacrifice. On 4 December [1815], the Peers meet and debate for two days. The result is without appeal: one single Peer, the duke of Broglie, speaks with courage against the condemnation; five abstain; seventeen vote for deportation; a hundred and thirty eight vote for death. They considered themselves judges rather than jurors; they thus enforced the law. Victor voted with the majority, undoubtedly with a heavy heart; in any case in each of the two ballots, he voted for the death of his former companion-in-arms, as did Maison, former chief of staff of Victor and Ney’s companion-in-suffering in Russia. The King will not use his right of pardon and Ney will be shot on 7 December. It seems that Victor, throughout his life, will suffer from remorse of this decision [...]

Jean-Pierre Tarin, Le Maréchal Victor: loyal sous Napoléon, fidèle sous la Restauration, p. 280.

It is common knowledge in Napoleonic circles that Victor voted for Ney’s death, and the circulated claim that Victor regretted his choice for the rest of his life intrigued me as soon as I saw it. From where was it sourced and how valid was the source? The Tarin biography of Victor skims over Victor’s reaction to Ney’s fate (more emphasis was given to figures of the Restoration in the succeeding passages—men, money, dates). Worse, the account Tarin gives of the trial and execution does not seem to be sourced, as if a memory-based anecdote. Evidently, from Tarin’s perspective, Victor’s alleged “remorse” is unimportant to his life. I am sure many reading this would agree with Tarin—it would be more telling to act as one believes in the moment than to cry over spilt milk. Indeed, acting in the moment is what the Marshals are known for, and it's why We Don't Talk About Victor Marshals that fit the archetype are more likeable.

The Le Coustumier biography is sympathetic to Victor. It circulates the same claim with more detail, and fortunately, the source is mentioned (p. 284).

If we are to believe Count André Martinet in an article published in Janurary 1902 in Le Figaro, (as Martinet could consult the Bellune family archives and speak with [Victor’s] descendants,) the death of Ney tormented Victor’s conscience through his remaining life. He reports: “But there was a day in the year where the Duke of Bellune did not appear at the family table, where he refused to receive even the most intimate of his friends: 7 December, which witnessed Ney's execution.* (…) Why, he often said, did my poor comrade refuse to appear before a council of war composed of the Marshals of France? If we were obliged to pronounce a condemnation, rather than executing the sentence, we would all have returned our batons to the hands of the King, and he would have been compelled to give pardon.” * The death of Ney pursued Victor to his grave. It was the 7 and 8 March 1841 that the eldest son of the Prince of Moscow made his entrance after ten years of waiting into the Chamber of Peers, demanding in vain the rehabilitation of his father. On both days, Victor was resting at Saint Louis des Invalides, to be buried on 9 March at Père Lachaise.

A note on the footnotes: Victor had died on 1 March 1841, so Le Coustumier may be stretching the metaphor a little. It might be more logical to say that Marshal Ney was left unrecognised until more favourable hands seized political power. The italics are my emphasis, for clarity. pp. 280-281 of the Le Coustumier quotes Augereau (unsourced!) on a similar note.

Weakened by his remorse, Augereau confessed on his deathbed, seven months later: “We were cowards. We should have declared ourselves competent despite Ney’s objections. If we had done so, he would at least have lived."

Augereau's words are believable enough. Do we buy Victor’s “remorse”?

The source from which the claim is taken from should not be disregarded entirely—Le Figaro is still recognised as an authoritative and independent newspaper—but it does have conservative tendencies, and has largely catered to a middle, if not the upper-middle class. To put it in context, the author of the article was a count, writing about a former government official with a similar status to himself, and conducted interviews with said official’s descendants. As a result of the individuals involved and the demographic the newspaper caters to (one similar to the featured individual), the writer would be more likely to portray Victor in a positive light. If remorse does not exonerate Victor, it softens his cruelties and paints his decision as a one-off mistake instead of condemning his character flaws. Is repenting for twenty-six years not absolution enough? Is it not karmic enough that Ney’s death occurred on Victor’s birthday, permanently blackening a date supposed to be his? (Never mind that perhaps he celebrated his name day or baptism day instead of his birthday, or that one day of mourning each year is a small price to pay for a dead man.) But if, as humans, we want to believe in the inherent goodness in Victor, we must also consider the claim's side affect of apotheosising the man. This is, after all, a family account featured in a sympathetic newspaper.

If there were other sources to crosscheck this, we could verify Victor’s sentiments (and if they are true, calling your annual day to wither away in a room “remorse” may be underselling how much you regret your life choices). The problem is that I cannot find other sources. It would be gratifying to believe Victor’s grief was real, because he was only human, but it is dubious at best. One can only hope that, in some timeline, if not in this one, he did pay emotional penance. Ultimately, I think that if a claim is made, it will be remembered if it is a good story.

#michel ney #claude victor-perrin #le maréchal victor: loyal sous napoléon fidèle sous le restauration (2006) #le maréchal victor (2004) #this is late but maybe it is better that way #we don't talk about victor but maybe for good reason #the next bits of the biographies will probably be in chronological order

[elisabeth515]

Pronunciation of the marshalate

Firstly, I am very sorry that I did not do double checks before reposting content again. So, after some thoughts, I decided to make a better version of our own.

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Notes:

- All pronunciations of names are transcribed into English sounds (as much as possible)

- Since the [y] sound is absent in English, I decided to use the u-umlaut (ü) in German (and Mandarin Chinese pinyin) which was the closest to the “u” in French. The sound is the closest to “u” as in “pure” in English.

- the guttural “r” in French is going to be denoted with “hr”

- “an”, “on” and “in” are nasal sounds

- Please note that even native speakers disagree on some pronunciations

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Charles Pierre François Augereau (O-zher-hro)

Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (Ber-nah-dot)

Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Behr-ti-yer)

Jean-Baptiste Bessières (Be-si-ehr)

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (Brüne)

Louis-Nicolas Davout (Dah-voo)

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (Zhoohr-don)

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann (Ke-ler-mahn)

Jean Lannes (Lahn)

François Joseph Lebfevre (Le-fevhr)

André Masséna (Maa-sen-na)

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (Mon-sey)

Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier (Mohr-ti-yer)

Joachim-Napoléon Murat (Mü-hra)

Michel Ney (it’s between Neh and Nay)

for details, watch this clip of our ginger babe demanding soup (source: Jean-Roch Coignet TV série)

#SoupepourNey #SoupforNey

Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (Pe-hri-zhnon)

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (Se-hrü-hri-ehr)

Jean-de-Dieu Soult (Soo)

Claude Victor-Perrin (Vik-tor-Per-hran)

Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald (Mack-Don-nal)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (Mahr-mon)

Nicolas Charles Oudinot (Oo-di-no)

Louis-Gabriel Suchet (Sü-shay)

Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Goo-vi-on-Son-Seehr)

Józef Antoni Poniatowski (Pon-ee-ah-tov-ski)

Emmanuel de Grouchy (Ghroo-shee)

I hope I get everything right, also here I would like to thank @histoireettralala for helping me to make this post happen🙈

#this is for consolidating my own knowledge on French pronunciations as well Lol #literally tried to read every name out loud by myself when typing everything on it #still can’t pronounce my babey’s name (sob) #marshal babeys #marshal babies #napoleon’s marshals #featuring a ginger babey who needs soup #soupe pour Ney #soup for ney #michel ney #marshal bae #ginger babey #important post