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empirearchives · 22 hours

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“The portrait of Napoleon growing from the fresh genius, the passionate lover and husband (never so loving that it could make his ambition tremble).”

— Sylvia Plath on Josephine’s husband, Napoleon Bonaparte

(Modern American Poetry)

#Sylvia Plath #Plath #Napoleon Bonaparte #Napoleon #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #french empire #19th century #history #writers and Napoleon #poetry #american literature #American lit

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thiefbird · 2 months

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Thinking about charting out every event, past or part of the active narrative, in Hornblower, Aubreyad, Sharpe, and Temeraire to see who's doing what at what time

No idea if it would be of interest to anyone but myself(and POB's six 1813s will perhaps complicate matters), but it is very tempting

#aubrey maturin #aubreyad #horatio hornblower #richard sharpe #temeraire #napoleonic wars #idk i think it would be a fun resource for fic writers. and i dearly love spreadsheets #project ahistoric

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lainiespicewrites · 17 days

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Okay so I have this WIP from MONTHS ago literally maybe even a year ago!

And the premise is this girl that works on the police force…I know our immediate thought is for this character to be Walter! (It was going to be all oc’s BUT I think it would make a great fic.) The main idea is that the characters end up having to go undercover as husband and wife to infiltrate and take down an organized crime mob. I see the characters having a kind of snarky bitter relationship behind the scenes but play super love newly weds when they’re in the act. Eventually one or both catches real feelings (obviously 😂)

My problem is the more I throw this back and forth I can make up my mind which of Henry’s characters SHOULD play this part sure! Walter’s a cop but can he act? August can act but …would he ever work for the good guys??? No I could Really see this being a modern day Napoleon solo! And for some reason it’s got giving Clark vibes!

So I’m taking to a vote for your opinions!

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peyton-warren · 7 months

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Am hoping to finish my Monster!Cavill Character fic by Halloween. Someone force me to write please.

#henry cavill #monster fucking #monster buggering #henry cavill characters #captain syverson #walter marshall #will shaw #august #evan marshall #geralt of rivia #clark kent #melot #mikey hellraiser #Napoleon solo #Sherlock #sherlock holmes #writing #writer

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erinsintra · 9 months

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just started watching world history. which season does napoleon show up at???????

#also what's the deal with this new caesar guy he looks too op #history #history memes #memes #funny #writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #female artists #fyp #fypツ #tumblr fyp #explore #explorepage #napoleon #hilarious #writing

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phatburd · 5 months

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Chiaroscuro (6972 words) by whisper_that_dares

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Napoleonic Era RPF, Historical RPF, 19th Century CE RPF

Rating: E Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Joachim Murat/Jean-Baptiste Bessières Characters: Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Joachim Murat, Caroline Bonaparte, Géraud Duroc, Jean Lannes, Napoleon I de France | Napoleon Bonaparte (mentioned) Additional Tags: Angry Sex, Period Typical Attitudes, Polyamory Negotiations, Jealousy, Angst, Heartbreak, Historical Figures, Hopeful Ending, Bessimu, Podfic Welcome

Summary:

France, December 1799. Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte are due to be married in a month, and absolutely everyone can see that they're in love with one another.

Jean-Baptiste Bessières sees it too. In public, he's been Murat's adoring and supportive friend. In private, as Murat's longtime lover, he's unraveling.

#Napoleonic era rpf #my writing #Napoleonic era #napoleonic fanfic #napoleon's marshals #joachim murat #jean baptiste bessières #posting the completed fic into its own post #since my initial post got shadowbanned #thanks for reading #i hope that the ending is ok #my writer brain said to wrap up as much of the dangling plot threads as possible while introducing possible future ones #so i did #oh my god I need a break #thank you for reading #ilu 🥰#thank you to everyone whom i also thanked in my first post on this #Bessimu #ao3

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cadmusfly · 3 months

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oh fuck oh shit help my fingers slipped and i wrote a snippet for the magical girl marshalate au

ramblepost about backstory and setting details

About thirty minutes ago, a schoolboy from the local high school and an exhausted office worker, both feeling a strange pull in their hearts, walked into an alleyway that was pulsing with strange lights. About twenty eight minutes ago, they saw a strange cartoon penguin jump down from a dumpster dramatically and begin monologuing at them. The office worker figured he was hallucinating from lack of sleep and overwork and began chatting enthusiastically to the penguin. The schoolboy turned around and tried to walk away. About twenty six minutes ago, claws emerged from a shadow on the ground and dragged out a rotting soldier dressed in crimson rags, leveling a musket at the two. About twenty five minutes ago, the penguin raised forth a glorious flag - where did he pull that out of?! - and shouted aloud, and the office worker and schoolboy were enveloped in glorious light. About a minute ago, the monster collapsed into shadows and bones that evaporated into darkness. Now, the man who had not been thinking of himself as Marshal Jean Lannes, imperial commander of a long dead army, until twenty five minutes ago, was panting, holding onto the wall for support. "What," he breathed out, "the absolute fuck. Was that. And why am I dressed like this?!" This was a sparkly dress uniform in mostly greens that really emphasized the dress part, with a lovely flared out skirt, leggings, a short forest green tunic with elaborate oakleaf embroidery, boots with intricate Grecian swirls and a giant sheathe for an equally giant sword which was somehow also a musket. The schoolboy, who was trying to mentally deny that he apparently was the reincarnation of Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult and failing miserably, was also leaning against the very helpful wall, one hand on the top of the elaborate scythe that had way too many interlocking parts to make sense. "This is not happening," he said, simply. "This is not happening.*" The flowing capelet that he wore was almost respectable and made him look like some kind of Red Riding Hood or hunter, over a dress that was kinda marching band paired with some skirt train thing. "Ah!" said the high pitched voice behind them. "My Magnificent Marshals, what an excellent showing! I have such high hopes for you-" Lannes turned around. "Napoleon," he said, the name coming naturally to him through inherited memories, "why do we fucking look like Murat had an acid trip and threw up all over us?!"

#cadmus rambles #cadmus writes #cad rambles about dead frenchmen on main #magnificent marshals au #the problem is that i've experienced writers block often enough that if something starts writing itself in my brain i need to immediately #grab onto it and get it down #thus this happened #i presume napoleon the penguin proceeded to ask what acid is #this is incomprehensible and incredibly silly

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thestarsfightagainstusmyfriend · 2 months

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To all my French history/French revolution/Napoleonic era experts--

I need book recommendations for three topics-- first, a general book about society and culture in France during the 1790s and first decade of the 1800s. Second, a book about fashion in the same time period (preferably, mostly women's fashion). And third, a book about Josephine, preferably one which covers her whole life, not just her marriage to Napoleon.

Also, feel free to recommend any blogs/online sources about the above (the period, the culture/fashion of the period, daily life, Josephine, etc.) that you enjoy!

#writer #research #french history #french revolution #book recs wanted #josephine de beauharnais #napoleonic era #history

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thiswaycomessomethingwicked · 5 months

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Obviously Napoleon would write books where he cathartically kills off people who wronged him (since he did that in real life). He was meant to be a messy romance author.

Oh he absolutely missed his calling - should have gone professional with being a dramatic writer. He did do messy romance in real life as well - obvs the most well known of his short-stores being break-up fiction as a means to process his Many Emotions at that time.

Though I'll say that for cathartically killing characters off -I can't call any specific stories to mind. He did write caricatures of people he didn't like (like that one doctor guy in Clisson & Eugenie) - but I can't remember him killing fictional characters based on people he disliked - do you happen to recall which stories?

#napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #ask #reply #Napoleon in Modern Day AUs should always be a messy romance writer #when he's not either a professor of either maths or history or a government worker of some kind #clisson and eugenie

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oatmilk-vampire · 6 months

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

- Napoleon Hill

#before you come for me #yes he was a conman #but this is still a good quote #napoleon hill #writers on tumblr #writing #writers #quotes

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empirearchives · 3 months

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“I find fault, and quarrel with Napoleon, as a lover does with the trifling faults of his mistress, from excessive liking, which tempts me to desire that he had been all faultless; and, like the lover, I return with renewed fondness after each quarrel.”

— Lord Byron

Source: Byron, Napoleon, J. C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days, By Peter Cochran (x)

#Byron was so real for this #you know I really regret not submitting Bryon to the Napoleonic sexyman tournament #lord Byron #Byron #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #quote #Peter Cochran #romanticism #english romanticism #writers and Napoleon

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alioshakaramazov · 1 month

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napoleon saying he doesn't like having statues made of him #humility #christianvalues #lying

#napoleon #this writer has some thoughts

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microcosme11 · 1 year

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Napoleon’s letters to Josephine are admired-he had no idea this was happening.

The Duchess of Courland or Kurland was friends with Mme. de Genlis. She shared a box of Napoleon’s letters to Josephine that Josephine had left somewhere. An enterprising servant had sold them to her. Mme de Genlis was impressed by the letters.

Voici un mot charmant que je trouvai dans une de ces lettres : Bonaparte reprochait à Joséphine la faiblesse et la frivolité de son caractère, et il ajoutait : « La nature t’a fait une âme de dentelle ; elle m’en a donné une d’acier. » Dans une autre lettre il montrait beaucoup de jalousie sur la société de Joséphine et surtout sur la quantité de jeunes muscadins qu’elle recevait journellement, et il lui ordonnait avec sévérité de les expulser tous. On voyait dans les lettres suivantes que Joséphine obéissait, mais qu’ensuite elle se plaignait continuellement de sa santé et de maux de nerfs ; alors Bonaparte imagina que l’ennui causait ce dérangement de santé et il lui manda qu’il aimait mieux être jaloux et souffrir que de la savoir malade et qu’il lui permettait de rappeler tous les muscadins.

Elles étaient d’une écriture fort difficile à lire, mais cependant j’en vins parfaitement à bout ; ces lettres étaient spirituelles et touchantes. On n’y voyait point d’ambition et elles exprimaient une extr��me sensibilité ; elles prouvaient que Bonaparte avait eu pour sa femme la passion la plus vive et la plus tendre.

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Here is a charming word that I found in one of these letters: Bonaparte reproached Josephine for the weakness and frivolity of her character, and he added: “Nature has made you a soul of lace; she gave me one of steel.” In another letter he showed great jealousy over Josephine's company and especially over the number of young Muscadins she received daily, and he ordered her severely to expel them all. We saw in the following letters that Josephine obeyed, but that afterwards she continually complained of her health and of nervous ailments; then Bonaparte imagined that boredom was causing this health disturbance and he told her that he would rather be jealous and suffer than to know that she was ill and that he would allow her to call back all the Muscadins.

The handwriting was very difficult to read, but nevertheless I came to the end of them perfectly; these letters were witty and touching. There was no ambition in them and they expressed extreme sensitivity; they proved that Bonaparte had had the liveliest and most tender passion for his wife.

Mémoires de madame de Genlis

gutenberg.org (also everywhere else)

#Madame de Genlis #Napoleonic personalities #French writers #Napoleon's letters to Josephine

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autisticabbey · 6 months

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