#las cases

[eunikia]

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. II)

Alexander and Napoleon met again some time after at Erfurt, and exchanged the most striking testimonies of affection. Alexander expressed with earnestness the sentiments of tender friendship and real admiration which he entertained for Napoleon. They passed some days together in the enjoyment of the charms of perfect intimacy and of the most familiar communications of private life. “We were,” said the Emperor, “two young men of quality, who, in their common pleasures, had no secret from each other.”

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"If Alexander’s affection for me was sincere," said the Emperor, “it was alienated from me by the force of intrigue. Certain persons, M——, or others, at the instigation of T——, lost no seasonable opportunity of mentioning instances of my turning him into ridicule, and they assured him, that at Tilsit and Erfurt, he no sooner turned his back than I took the opportunity of laughing at his expense. Alexander is very susceptible, and they must have easily soured his mind. It is certain, that he made bitter complaints of it at Vienna during the congress, and yet nothing was more false; he pleased me, and I loved him.”

Too much personal fuss for serious politicians)

#napoleon bonaparte #alexander i of russia #las cases #erfurt #st helena #napalex

[empirearchives]

Napoleon’s memoir, written by Emmanuel de Las Cases, The Memorial of Saint Helena, was the best-selling nonfiction work of the 19th century. It outsold authors such as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.

It was published 200 years ago in 1823.

(Source)

#las cases #Napoleon #vintage book #Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène #st. Helena #Saint helena #napoleonic #napoleonic era #book #books #vintage #napoleon bonaparte #France #first french empire #french empire #19th century #1800s #history #Emmanuel de Las Cases #frev #french revolution #memoir #book cover #cover art #book cover art #art #fun fact

[microcosme11]

Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, dictant ses mémoires à Las Cases by Ary Scheffer

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#St. Helena #Las Cases

[usergreenpixel]

MALMAISON MEDIA SALON SOIRÉE 15: NEEDING NAPOLEON (2020)

1. The Introduction

Hello, Neighbors! Welcome back to Malmaison Media Salon! At last we’re here and today is a bit of a special review. Why special?

Let me explain:

1. Firstly, it’s one of those cases where I stumble upon a media piece via recommendation from another community member. This time it was @suburbanbeatnik , who interviewed the author of the book and there was a contest where the first 3 users to comment would get a free ebook copy via email.

I was the first to comment because I was given the link and because I was really excited about what sounded like a promising story, considering my soft spot for the adventure genre, time travel and alternative history. So yeah, I became one of the lucky three users.

Unfortunately, the book is only available in English and has to be purchased through websites like Amazon, so those who don’t speak English too well might be out of luck for now.

2. Secondly, it’s one of the few anglophone (British, to boot!) media pieces that DO NOT paint Napoleon as a villain! How cool is that?! For newcomers, stumbling upon a gem like that is about as likely as seeing a UFO, so you can bet your asses that I HAD to check out the book!

3. Thirdly, I already mentioned that I’m a sucker for adventure, time travel, historical fiction and alternative history so that really boosted my excitement… as well as my worries. I prayed that the book would turn out to be good. Luckily, it did! More on that later though.

Anyway, before we proceed, this review is dedicated to @suburbanbeatnik and @garethwilliamsauthor . Not only is the latter, well, the author, but he also graciously gave me permission to write said review and I’m thankful for this.

Okay, with formalities out of the way, let’s begin!

2. The Summary

The novel tells the story of one Richard Davey, an ordinary schoolteacher who admires Napoleon and lives a very boring, lonely life.

However, during a fateful holiday in Paris, he gets a chance to leave his old life behind, meet his hero and maybe even change the course of history.

To me, the idea sounds very interesting, so let’s move onto the deeper analysis and see if the execution matches the potential.

3. The Story

Although the beginning of the story did confuse me a bit because we jump straight into action, I. Fucking. Love. This. Book. I was extremely hooked when reading and felt like I was back in my childhood, reading my favorite swashbuckling stories. The excitement is REAL.

The pacing is excellent, most loose ends get tied up in the end, the ending is satisfying yet also realistic and we don’t have the protagonist getting everything he wanted, which is awesome!

I did have a problem with the flashbacks though, mainly because they kept popping up and breaking the storyline immersion, but that’s just me.

Also, there’s a good mix of gritty artlessness (in a good way because it doesn’t gloss over war), a swashbuckling adventure, romance and down time (we can’t have action ALL the time).

The romantic subplot is very well-written and realistic, even though my asexual self still didn’t care much because I don’t normally like romance. Spoiler, it’s one of the few times where the protagonist doesn’t get the love interest in the end, for a lot of reasons.

So yeah, only minor complaints here and there.

(Oh, and tiny bonus for the Frev community: Frev isn’t demonized either!!! Yay!!!)

(P. S. Also there were a lot of moments that cracked me up, like the pun with HMS Bellerophon being called Billy Ruffian.)

4. The Characters

Richard Davey is by far one of the most relatable characters ever, since I can relate to his loneliness (me during the worse days of depression) and love for History (I’m a Frev and Napoleonic nerd). He’s flawed, reacts realistically and in his own way to situations and has a great character arc, from a man just going with the motions of life to a hero who can and does make a difference in history, just not in the way he first planned.

Emile Béraud, a soldier Richard befriends in the past, is an absolute sweetheart. Loyal to a fault, friendly and just as lonely as Richard, he takes part in the adventures and is a very compelling character.

Aunt Patricia, Richard’s only living relative, might be a minor character who doesn’t personally appear, but her presence is felt throughout the story and Richard constantly imagines what she would have to say in his position and how she would judge him.

Madame Odillet, the owner of an antique shop who helps Richard get back in time, is a mysterious woman with a troubled past, who definitely knows more than she first lets on. I like the book parallels between her and witches, even though she’s just a regular human.

Napoleon starts out as an insufferable punchable prick, but later on his portrayal becomes nuanced. He loves and misses his son, has a soft spot for kids, has a temper and at times alternates between acceptance of his fate and resolve to fight back. He’s not in a good place mentally nor physically, but he’s portrayed as someone flawed yet far from being a bad person.

Jerome is an arrogant hedonistic ass. Full stop. But he’s a minor character so I can understand why he’s not as nuanced, even if I wish there was a bit more complexity.

Gourgaud is an impulsive and arrogant bastard who is loyal to his emperor yet entitled due to having saved said emperor twice.

Bertrand and Fanny are extremely sweet.

Las Cases… I found him unpleasant and arrogant.

Murat and Caroline are mentioned and, LUCKILY, not depicted as traitors.

Ney in his cameo is his usual post-Russia reckless self (he possibly had PTSD, I believe).

Overall, the cast is memorable and I did enjoy the portrayals for the most part.

5. The Setting

The descriptions really sell the setting here, in my opinion. I particularly enjoyed the scenes at Malmaison where Napoleon essentially is Richard’s tour guide.

Always nice to see that the author really did their research and has a way with language to make immersion that much easier to achieve.

6. The Writing

Once again, the descriptions. Short, sweet, to the point.

The language is mostly easily understandable, but there are French words sprinkled in that (fortunately) can be more or less understood in context. I wish there were footnotes with translations though. Oh, and some words were unfamiliar to me as a foreigner so please keep that in mind too.

7. The Conclusion

If you can, please give the book a go. Remarkable adventures, nuanced characters and believable settings that are reminiscent of swashbuckling novels are definitely worth your money, in my humble opinion.

Of course, no work is perfect but I throughly enjoyed this one despite some flaws and I look forward to reading the sequel. It’s not every day we get an anglophone pro-Naps media piece, after all.

On that note, let us conclude today’s soirée. Please stay tuned for updates on future reviews, my dearest Neighbors.

Love,

Citizen Green Pixel

#needing napoleon #napoleonic era #malmaison media salon #book review #napoleon bonaparte #las cases #gourgaud #bertrand #cw fouché #i still refuse to make a fouche tag #caroline murat #joachim murat #marshal ney #marshal soult #hortense de beauharnais #jerome bonaparte #joseph bonaparte #josephine bonaparte #battle of waterloo

[rcvandenboogaard]

Het 'Empire' dat snel vergeten werd

Toen keizer Napoleon in 1811 Amsterdam – na Parijs en Rome de derde hoofdstad van het Franse ‘Empire’ – bezocht, trof hij het stadsbestuur in een nogal klagerige stemming aan. Emmanuel de las Cases, secretaris van Napoleon tijdens diens latere ballingschap op St.Helena, heeft verslag gedaan van de toespraak die de keizer hield, ter opmontering: “Men zegt dat u ontevreden bent: maar waarom?…

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#1811 #Amsterdam #Bataafse republiek #Belgische Opstand #Caroline de Gruyter #departement #Empire #Europa #Franse keizerrijk #Hamburg #Holland #Hultman #Las Cases #Lebrun #Mémorial #Napoleon #nationalisme #Nederlanden #Piemont #Republiek #Rijn #Simplon #St.Helena #Vaucluse #Verenigd Koninkrijk #Willem I

[blondie-drawings]

do NOT watch star trek. you'll get a disease where you see any post and think oooh i can make this about star trek :3 no you CANT!!!

#but in this case. i can. #sorry every time i draw data he looks different i have no object permanence and also im stupid #star trek #star trek tng #tng #the next generation #star trek the next generation #THERE'S TOO MANY WAYS TO TAG THIS SHOW DOES IT EVEN MATTER #st: tng #ANOTHER!! #data soong #lieutenant commander data #geordi laforge #geordi la forge #Beverly crusher #deanna troi #will riker #jean luc picard #sorry no worf i um. ran out of room for people LMAOOOO

[kurj]

i often think about bringing the minoan fresco women back to life through drawing

La Parisienne / Minoan Lady / Camp Stool Fresco -> my drawing

#minoan #tagamemnon #bronze age aegean #minoan frescoes #la parisienne #the name of this fresco is la parisienne which i hate with passion so im not gonna call it like that #but tagging in case someone searches by this name ew #i saw this fresco in the heraklion museum twice and each time im stunned #frescoes!!!! heart eyes #art #kurjdraws

[coolestpersontoeverexist]

No comment

#data soong #star trek tng #data star trek #star trek #geordi la forge #geordi star trek #lt d'sora is from the episode in theory in case you forgot #just so people dont think shes an oc or something 😞😞😞

[sevicia]

At first it didn't bother me when people used "delulu" so freely cause I was like whatever it's not THAT harmful but I have seen it used SO often that it's started to annoy the shit outta me like none of these people even know what delusion ACTUALLY is. Delusion is not the cute little hopeful voice that tells you they're interested because they made eye contact with you, delusion is waking up one day knowing, being absolutely convinced, that your parents' bedroom is a portal to another dimension, that all your friends are paid actors, that animals don't exist and are actually robots with cameras for eyes, and those are just the ones that I have personally experienced and was able to snap out of with lots of help and without hurting myself or anyone around me.

It's actually so fucking annoying to see people being like "may your delulu becone trululu 😋👍" like if you knew what delusion actually is, how hopeless and paranoid and confused it makes you feel, you would not be saying that. I have known of people who became convinced their families were demons, or that they themselves were possessed, and then ended up committing serious crimes. But no. It's all fun and games, and being "delulu" is cute and quirky.

#son los mismos weones y weonas q graban a la gente q habla sola en metro o la micro y se cagan de la risa después #deberían tirarse a las vías 🩷 #ableism #paranoia inducing #<- just in case #rmmber u can ask me to tag anything OK?

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[ormymarius]

#I’ve seen so many people hate their fave character in live action so I’m curious #polls #comics #dc comics #dc #dc universe #marvel #marvel comics #mcu #dceu #idek what to tag this bye #also if your fave has more than one live action version you can choose other/nuanced answer in case you wanna explain more in depth #unless you hate all the la versions of that character lmao

[eunikia]

The Emperor said he was well convinced that he was the individual whom Josephine loved best in all the world: and he added, with a smile, that he was sure she would have relinquished any assignation to attend him. She never failed to accompany him on all his journeys. Neither fatigue nor privation could daunt her; and she employed importunity and even artifice to gain her point. "If I stepped into my carriage at midnight, to set out on the longest journey, to my surprise I found Josephine all ready prepared, though I had had no idea of her accompanying me. ‘But,’ I would say to her, ‘You cannot possibly go, the journey is too long and will be too fatiguing for you.’—‘Not at all,’ Josephine would reply. ‘Besides, I must set out instantly.’—‘Well, I am quite ready.’—‘But you must take a great deal of luggage.’—‘Oh, no! every thing is packed up;‘ and I was generally obliged to yield. In a word, Josephine rendered her husband happy, and constantly proved herself his sincerest friend. At all times and on all occasions, she manifested the most perfect submission and attachment; and thus I shall never cease to remember her with tenderness and gratitude.

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. Vol. II

#napoleon and josephine #napoleon bonaparte #empress josephine #Las Cases

[empirearchives]

Napoleon to Las Cases:

“The truth is that I have never been master of my movements; I have never been entirely myself. I had plans: but I never had the freedom to carry out any of them. I have always been governed by circumstances. [...] I was not the master of my acts, because I was not mad enough to try to twist events to my system: on the contrary, I adapted my system to the events.”

Source: Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène

#Napoleon #las cases #quote #text post #Napoleon quote #19th century #exile #st Helena #Saint Helena #destiny #free will #Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène #memoir #memoirs #napoleonic era #napoleonic #history #first French empire #1810s

[microcosme11]

Las Cases gets a little shirty with English officer at The Briars

There I met the officer in charge of our guard. Struck by the state of weakness in which I had seen the Emperor the day before and by the extreme need he had to take some exercise, I told this officer that I suspected the reason which prevented the Emperor from going riding; that I was going to speak to him with frankness, and with all the more ease because I quite appreciated the delicate way in which he fulfilled his office with us. I therefore asked him what were his instructions, and what he would do if the Emperor came riding around the house; making him feel the repugnance he must naturally have for anything that was likely to remind [the Emperor] at every moment the seclusion in which he found himself; assuring him, moreover, that it wasn’t personal, and that if the Emperor wished to undertake long journeys, I was persuaded that he would ask for him in preference as his accompaniment. The officer replied that his instructions were to follow the Emperor; but that, making it a rule to be as little disagreeable as possible, he took it upon himself not to accompany him. At breakfast I told the Emperor of my conversation with the captain. He replied that it was undoubtedly good of him; but that it was against his principles to enjoy an advantage that could compromise an officer. This determination was fortunate: having entered our hosts' house in the evening, the officer took me aside to tell me that, having been in town during the day to speak to the admiral about our morning conversation, he had ordered him to comply with his instructions. I could not help replying with vivacity that the Emperor was going to order the immediate dismissal of the three horses which had been placed at our disposal. The officer, to whom I made known the reply which the Emperor had given me that morning concerning him, told me that he also thought that it was very good to send the horses away, and he had nothing better to do; an answer which I thought dictated by the mood he felt by the role imposed on him. I told [the Emperor] what the English officer had just told me. One would have said that he expected it and I wasn’t mistaken, he ordered me to send the horses away. As this setback had been very sensitive to me, I told him, with a little vivacity perhaps, if he allowed me, I was going to go back to the officer so that he'd have to fulfill this wish immediately. To which [Napoleon] replied, with particular gravity and tone of voice: No, monsieur, not in a bad mood; one rarely does well in this situation: one must always let the night pass over the insult of the day before. We continued walking until almost midnight: the temperature was delicious.

Translated from Le mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, par le comte de Las Cases (1823). hathitrust

#St. Helena #Las Cases #Memorial of St. Helena #Las Cases is almost as funny as Gourgaud #Napoleon being very mature #Not sure Napoleon let the night pass over the insult of the day before

[tanatola]

forget-me-not

#jjk #kenjaku #geto suguru #when are we getting kenny again in the manga sigh #tw: death #tw: mild gore #just in case #sketch #my artwork #at this point im almost hoping they succeed and the end of the manga is just how ppl are adapting to a new existence a-la evangelion tbh

[nandorfucks]

*banging pots and pans togther* GUILLERMO IS NOT COMPLETELY INNOCENT!! *bang* HE'S NOT PERFECT OR WITHOUT FAULTS!! *bang* HE'S NOT SOME POOR HELPLESS LITTLE GUY!! *bang* HE'S LITERALLY A SERIAL KILLER!!!!!!!!! *bang*

#in case some of y'all need reminding #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #guillermo de la cruz