The Lovers' Chronicle 11 February - Mirrors, verse by mac tag - Napoleon's Love Letter to Josephine - art by Ellen Day Hale & Carlo Carrà https://t.co/HhvFRgsqqs

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Thx for the thread!
Drawing a parallel with Napoleon's crossing of the Alpes is tempting. For we have our own funny myths too! 😁
Here, the French managed to be romantic decades early... To finally get gloomy & realistic when romanticism was kicking in everywhere else...🥺Unfair! https://t.co/OOWXbc1XdF

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A French satire of the English in published 23rd December 1814. Good job that defeat has re-ignited the tourism industry once and for all

(Oh, wait!)

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Venice: Napoleon's Italian Thorn 

The city was originally founded in the 5th Century. In the year 830, the body of St. Mark the Evangelist having been transported from Egypt, became the patron saint of the Republic...

https://t.co/rfFVaG1DR6

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Thanks for spending comic book history with George Cruikshank. Its great that modern artists like Kirby are getting their due, but let's not forget they too stood on the shoulders of others before them.

-Cruikshanks on Napoleon's exile, 1814

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Portrait of Italian opera singer Giuseppina Grassini by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1805. Grassini became Napoleon's mistress shortly after Marengo, and returned with him to Paris. Later in life, she also had an affair with the Duke of Wellington.

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No, I did NOT forget Napoleon's birthday...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAPOLEON!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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COUNTDOWN TO NAPOLEON'S BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAPOLEON! AUG 15 ~
♡♡♡\(^▽^)/♡♡



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"The daw stript, of his borrow'd plumes" - this cartoon from November 1813 satirises Napoleon's defeat by the Sixth Coalition the battle of Leipzig a month prior: https://t.co/RX2gTOAcDi

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Switched it up for a bit to do some fanart for Playing Napoleon's route first which is a lot sweeter and cute than I expected XD

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MFW I realize Corrin's VA is also Napoleon's VA

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THREAD: 's extremely hack take on one of the great paintings of the 20th century is an insult to all humanity. 1st, bc Goya painted his original, The Third of May 1808, in grief-stricken tribute to the brutal massacre of Spanish resistors to Napoleon's invasion.

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Napoleon's Theorem : Equilateral △s on the sides of any △, all outward or all inward:

Lines connecting the centres form an equilateral △.

What's extra cool is that their area difference is the area of the original △ 🤩🤯

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BLACK JACOBINS: On November 18, 1803, the most successful slave revolt in human history wins the final battle of the Haitian Revolution, the Battle of Vertières (picture), against Napoleon's army, securing Haiti's independence.

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Noel (CV: Murase Ayumu)
Napoleon
-One of Napoleon's beloved flintlock pistols
-Thinks of Napoleon as the real man himself and admires him
-Studious and quiet
-Likes apple cinnamon crepes
-He (younger) and Nicola are two in one
-Annoyed by stupid adults and Ekaterina especially

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Nicola (CV: Murase Ayumu)
Napoleon
-One of Napoleon's beloved flintlock pistols
-Believes the warrior Napoleon is the real deal, hangs onto his every word
-Studious, more outspoken than his brother
-Likes strawberry crepes
-He and Noel are two in one
-Irritated by foolish adults

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The third and final volume of "Berezina" is out in French (published by ), and is making its way to the catalog (out in May)! Discover the remarkable story of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign: https://t.co/m1WldZ7k6X

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Very during most of his life, Richard Müller is seen as the father of the Neue Sachlichkeit. At the Salon du Dessin, 21-26 March, Martin Moeller features his incl this intriguing of six of Napoleon's death mask.

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RT : What did Americans think of the French exiles who fled to the United States after Napoleon's 1815 defeat? https://t.co/1d7byrhgNs

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