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#Louis-Alexandre Berthier
joachimnapoleon · 1 year
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sollannaart · 10 months
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Napoleon dancing near Berthier
An anecdote about Napoleon from a collection of Polish soldiers memories:
"Do you know, madame," said the emperor to his partner at the moment of rest, "why do I always put Berthier opposite me in the dance? I do it by coquetry: he dances like a bear, and so I seem a little better than him."
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A screenshot from the movie “Marysia i Napoleon” from here
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histoireettralala · 25 days
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Tonight for some reason I keep imagining a precocious little Berthier growing up in Versailles and catching the eye of Mesdames Adélaïde and Victoire, and the King's daughters doting on him. He would have been some sort of a mix between a savant child and a pet for them, but definitely not without affection. I can see Adélaïde being genuinely interested in the child, pleased to occasionally spoil him and quizz him about his studies, life, and dreams.
Berthier's life pre Napoleon is truly underrated!
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empirearchives · 1 year
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Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon Bonaparte’s chief of staff
Early 19th century
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araiz-zaria · 11 months
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Speaking of Naps and his favorite chips, here is a lil' strip about it 😏😉😂
Letter from Josephine: does he eat well?
Berthier, looking at Naps eating his 736th bag of chips for meal during this particular campaign:
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gabrielferaud · 7 months
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hey does anyone know what berthier’s relationships with the others who frequently traveled with napoleon (like duroc and caulaincourt) were, like, how did they feel abt eachother?
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josefavomjaaga · 1 year
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Napoleon’s court getting ready for their annual Halloween party.
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clove-pinks · 1 year
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I saw @joachimnapoleon’s post wishing French Marshal of the Empire Louis-Alexandre Berthier a happy birthday today (born 20 November 1753), and immediately zoomed in on his participation in the American Revolutionary War under General Rochambeau.
Rochambeau?? Does that mean... he was in Rhode Island?? (FYI my home state where I’m from, for those just tuning in at home)
And yes! Yes he was in Rhode Island!! 
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Detail of Plan de la position de l'armée françoise autour de Newport et du mouillage de l'escadre dans la rade de cette ville, 1780. (Library of Congress) 
Although an author for the map isn’t listed on the LOC, a Rhode Island history site attributes it to Berthier based on “similarities in style and technique with other known Berthier maps and because Colonel Desandroüins was Berthier’s commanding officer.” (omg he drew Easton’s Beach)
I also found an interesting (if somewhat embarrassing) article in the Journal of the American Revolution: Why Newport, Rhode Island, Scorned the French. Basically we were very rude and hostile to General Rochambeau and his entourage because a) the French are CATHOLICS, b) Newport was a hotbed of Loyalists, c) Newport people are just jerks tbh, d) strange fears that the French eat babies?!
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northernmariette · 2 years
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The Marshalate (Part 1)
Returning to my copy of  David G. Chandler’s The Illustrated Napoleon, this is what he wrote about the institution of the marshalate:
The Napoleonic marshalate came into existence on May 18, 1804, as part of the Constitution of the Year XII, which established the Empire. Article 48 empowered the appointment of sixteen active marshals and an indeterminate number of honorific appointment. The dignity - for it was essentially a conferred civil title rather than a military rank as such (general de division being the senior army promotion) - brought into existence a group of grands seigneurs who came fifth in terms of court rank, subordinate to the emperor and empress, the other members of the imperial family, the designated grand dignitaries of the Empire and the ministers. Among the many privileges they were to enjoy was a cannon salute of eleven guns on certain official occasions.
On May 19 the first list of names was published - eighteen names in all, four of them in the honorary category, named mainly to recognize old revolutionary commanders of great merit and to represent the interests of the army in the Senate. Eventually Napoleon would appoint a total of twenty five Frenchmen and one Pole to the dignity of “marshal of the Empire”. Their selection was not purely based on military valor and attainment. Although all holders of the coveted eagle-spangled blue-and-gold baton had some claim to military distinction, political considerations also played a part in the process. Thus the first eighteen batons were carefully divided among soldiers who had served on the three main war fronts: Italy, the Rhine, and the Pyrenees.
Napoleon’s motives in re-creating the dignity (which had been abolished by the Convention in 1793) were complex. On the one hand, he wished to unite a group of influential generals - some already devoted to him, others not - representing a balance among the main factions of the French army and to ensure that the army would accept the newly created Empire. On the other hand, he wished to integrate the military leadership into the new or revived aristocratic hierarchy he intended to establish around his throne. The marshals eventually received high aristocratic titles to add to their military preeminence: almost all became dukes, six were made princes, and two of them became kings (one, Bernadotte, Prince of Pontecorvo, founding a dynasty in Sweden that prospers to this day).  With the titles went estates and large sums of money in most cases, while the highest decorations of the Legion of Honor and many other honors, French and foreign, were lavished on the deserving as Napoleon defined the term - the loyal, the relations, the favorites (very few) and the talented.
David G. Chandler, The Illustrated Napoleon. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1973, 1990. pp. 89-90.
In the first paragraph, Chandler mentions, that in the Imperial court’s hierarchy,  the marshals came after “the designated grand dignitaries of the Empire and the ministers”. In this regard Berthier was a triple-threat, as he held all three of these titles for many years. Eventually the War Ministry went to General Clarke, but Berthier kept the other two positions until 1814 as well as being made a prince in 1806, two years before aristocratic titles were granted to the other marshals. All this did not stop Napoleon from being regularly abusive to Berthier in his personal dealings with him. Be it as it may, in so many ways Berthier was an exception among the marshals, not least because of the nature of his duties.
The baton, of course, was not eagle-spangled, but bee-spangled. Which is still more prestigious that the marshmallow sticks described by a terrible translation [application, program, automatic thingie, whatever] that caused so much merriment among our little circle some months ago. Although marshmallow sticks would come in more handy when one is feeling peckish. Bee spangles are much more difficult to digest.
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koda-friedrich · 2 years
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(過去絵) Born in the 1750s!
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playitagin · 10 months
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1815-Louis-Alexandre Berthier
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815), Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, was a French Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War of France and served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte.
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joachimnapoleon · 11 months
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Hello there! In the last few weeks your page turned into one of my favourite places on the internet through your knowledge and your posts about Murat and all around about the napoleonic era. I do wonder: Do you know about Murat‘s relationship with the other marshals? I am aware about your really nice post about Murat‘s relationship with Lannes but what about the others? I believe to have read that Murat disliked Davout. At the other hand he seemed to have a positive relationship with Bernadotte and Ney? I could be wrong though. I hope I do not annoy with that question and wish you a beautiful day. c:
Hello! Glad you’ve been enjoying my page, always nice to see more fans of Murat/the Napoleonic era in general popping up here. ^_^
Regarding Murat’s relationships with his fellow marshals, this is one of those subjects in which the amount of information is frustratingly sparse, so most of my views are just from piecing together what fragments I’ve come across here and there. And my guesswork may very well be wrong; my knowledge about the marshals is nowhere near complete. 
Murat & Bernadotte: It’s generally been accepted that they were friends, at least early in their careers, because of their shared revolutionary sympathies and backgrounds. So I was a bit surprised to come across a letter from Murat to Joseph Bonaparte, which I included in my book, in which Murat says he’d resign if Bernadotte were ever given preference over him for a military command, after Bernadotte sided against the Bonapartes on 18 Brumaire. That being said, Murat had invited Bernadotte to his wedding ten months prior to writing that letter (though I’ve always wondered if this was just to nettle Napoleon for having opposed his marriage to Caroline). I really haven’t come across what their relationship was like in later years, but it would be interesting to look into.
Murat & Bessières: These two went off together, as young men from the Lot, to join the Constitutional Guard in 1792. He also attended Murat’s wedding in January 1800. Beyond that, I’ve found depressingly little on their personal relationship. Bessières apparently did become quite close with Eugène de Beauharnais, which does make me wonder if his relationship with Murat might’ve soured at some point, since poor paranoid Murat tended to be one of those “the friend of my enemy is also my enemy” types. Nevertheless, he and Caroline both wrote letters to Bessières’ widow after his death in 1813; sadly I’ve never been able to read them, since they’re in the French Archives. 
Murat & Ney: At least during the 1805 campaign, these two didn’t get along very well. Shortly after Murat’s victory at Wertingen, Napoleon placed the entire right wing of the army (which included the corps of Lannes and Ney) under Murat’s orders, which neither Lannes or Ney were happy about. At one point Ney argued with Murat over his dispositions and whipped out a map to show Murat why he was wrong, to which Murat said “I understand nothing of your plans; it is my way to make mine in the presence of the enemy!” The remark stung Ney enough that he threw it back at Murat prior to the attack at Elchingen, in front of Napoleon, turning to Murat and shouting, “Come, Prince, come with me, and make your plans in the presence of the enemy!” But a lot of the campaign-tension stuff shouldn’t be read too deeply into when it comes to analyzing friendships; Murat and Lannes butted heads on campaign too. War is stressful, and generals/marshals wanted to show each other up and win the most prestige. Ney still took the waters at Barèges with Lannes and Murat in July of 1808, so Lannes and Ney were two of the first people with whom Murat got to share the wonderful news that he was officially a king now. I don’t think Murat and Ney ever became particularly close friends, but they at least seemed to get along, and work together, better during the 1812 campaign. 
Murat & Soult: Apparently disliked each other, but I haven’t found much mentioning them in relation to each other either way. @josefavomjaaga has posted some excerpts from the memoirs of one of Soult’s aides which mention Soult’s displeasure with Murat though.
Murat & Davout: Their mutual dislike really seems to have crystalized during the 1812 campaign, in which they quarreled repeatedly (at one point Murat wanted to fight him, and Belliard held him back as he was about to head for Davout’s tent with a pistol), culminating with Davout accusing Murat of “black ingratitude” towards Napoleon when Murat was ranting about him at one point. I think they were just an oil-and-water pair, totally incompatible with each other personality-wise, and I also think it grated on Davout (and probably many of the other marshals) that Murat had been made a king by Napoleon by virtue of being an imperial brother-in-law, and that they officially had to refer to him as Your Majesty from then on.  
Murat & Berthier: This is an interesting one, and I wish I had more information. Early on, Murat disliked Berthier and seemed to think Berthier had it out for him (and maybe he did, since Murat admitted to having spoken against him; but, again, Murat was kind of a paranoid wreck and thought virtually everybody had it out for him). Between this and the fact that his relationship with Napoleon was on an early down-turn, Murat actually wrote to Barras at the beginning of the Egyptian campaign (I believe from Malta) and asked to be reassigned. At some point though, his relationship with Berthier improved. There are some interesting letters from Berthier to Murat in Murat’s published correspondence which speak to them having a closer relationship. In one, I can’t remember the year off the top of my head but I want to say sometime between 1806-7, Berthier says that he misses the lunches they used to share together. In another from around that time or perhaps 1808, Berthier laments that Murat has been nonresponsive to his previous letters and is clearly wounded by it. In the summer of 1808, Berthier writes Murat another touching letter as Murat is about to become a king, and Berthier regrets that soon he will not be able to write to him with the same effusion. Throughout Murat’s reign, Napoleon would typically leave it to Berthier to kind of “soften the blow,” so to speak, when it came to giving Murat lectures on how he should behave as a king, and to try to soothe his hurt feelings after Napoleon’s typically insensitive reprimands. They both endured Napoleon’s stormy moods during the 1812 campaign and had to figure out how to pick up the pieces together once Napoleon abandoned the army. Berthier initially supported the choice of Murat, due to his rank, to take command rather than Eugène, but soon realized Murat wasn’t capable of handling it, and wrote a ciphered letter to Napoleon saying that he needed to be replaced immediately. I don’t think it was personal; Murat was just terrible under pressure, and wasn’t the right man for that particular job. Anyway, I think anyone would be hard pressed to find two guys who put up with more of Napoleon’s shit over the years than Berthier and Murat, and after 17 or so years of working so closely together and going through so much shared hardship, I can’t help but think they had bonded at least a bit. 
Those are the main ones; as far as the other marshals, I haven’t come across enough info on Murat’s relationships with them to have anything to say. If anybody has any more information to add on anything, feel free. :)
Thanks for the ask!
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largecucumber · 5 days
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Everyone’s tired after a long battle, but at least Marshal Murat looks great in his ridiculous hat 🎩 😮‍💨
How’re y’all doing?? 😣💖 I’m so bored. All I do is school and exercise. I’m so so shy when I go to the gym! There’re these huge men lifting huge weights like omg how?! 😖🏃‍♀️💨 Anywayssss, I’m so sorry about Eugene 😢 I don’t actually know what he looks like lmaooo
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bambooale · 6 months
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🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰
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empirearchives · 1 year
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Napoleon and Berthier
Berthier was Napoleon’s chief of staff. They were together so often that people jokingly referred to Berthier as “the Emperor’s wife”
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araiz-zaria · 1 year
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👻🎃💀 Napoleonic Halloween Parade 💀🎃👻
Remember that during last year's Halloween I listed the costumes of these Napoleonic figures for this very occasion? Well...here they are in pictures! 👻
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First of all...here comes Pharaoh Naps and Egyptian Queen Josephine 😏
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And here's the Trifecta — Vampire Murat, Mummy Lannes, and Werewolf Ney 😉
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Next up — Zombie Berthier and Cookie Monster Soult holding a plastic moldy baguette 🤣
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Here's Davout as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, with Oudinot as his monstrous creation, and Gouvion St Cyr as an admiring Roman Senator 😅🤣🙈
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Watch out for Devil Augereau and Pirate Massena! 💀
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And here we have Peter Pan Bessieres and Viking Bernadotte
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And to round it up — give it up to Wizard Larrey!
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