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marechalnoor · 1 month

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I go to Bessières for therapy

So I live in Switzerland (specifically Lausanne) and one of the metro stations is named Bessières and I often go to Bessières for my psychologist appointments so it’s really funny to say “I go to Bessières for therapy” with no context whatsoever 😭😭😭

Btw I looked up to see if the metro station is actually named after wig boi and unfortunately he isn’t 😔 He’s named after some Swiss philanthropist.

I should draw Bessières as a therapist now 😤✍️

#jean baptiste bessières #marshal bessières #napoleon's marshals #napoleonic shitpost #bessie moment

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araiz-zaria · 1 year

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Gascons be Gascons™ — Halloween Edition 👻

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largecucumber · 2 months

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Hiiiii 😫💖How are you guyssss?

Here’re some cute and silly drawings. THEY ALL LOOK SO FUNNY (especially Ney 🥲) There’re so many things I wanna draw, but I just don’t have the time waaahhh 😭

Anyways, I hope y’all are doing fantastic 💐😚

#napoleon’s marshals #Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte #jean lannes #michel ney #Géraud Duroc #jean baptiste bessières #josephine de beauharnais #Alexander I #napoleon #digital art #fanart #💗

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phatburd · 3 months

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(Some of) Napoleon’s Marshals … as birds.

For @flowwochair ✌️

Bessières

Davout

Murat

Masséna

Soult

Ney

Lannes

Gouvion St. Cyr, because of course

And not-Marshal Junot

#obviously this is not all of #napoleon's marshals #i might try to find other birds to match #birds #birb #joachim murat #michel ney #jean baptiste bessières #andre massena #jean andoche junot #jean lannes #jean de dieu soult #louis nicolas davout #napoleonic era #napoleonic shitpost

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apurpledust · 3 months

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some lannes uniform art studies ✨ but one of them is not like the other... 🤭

@armagnac-army sorry for putting you with bessie i just wanna clear my drafts 💀

#jean lannes #jean baptiste bessières #napoleon's marshals #napoleonic era #napoleonic #sooo i also had this lannes art in my drafts i forgot about #my god his hair is insanely hard #I WILL GET BETTER ON UNIFORM GUYS 😭 😭#my art

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hanciiii · 20 days

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wooooo bessières

#art #napoleonic wars #napoleonic era #artists on tumblr #napoleon's marshals #napoleons marshals #jean baptiste bessières #jean baptiste bessieres

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josefavomjaaga · 2 months

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Laure about Bessières and Junot

In her memoirs, Laure for the time of her marriage (i.e., early Consulate) mentions Bessières as one of Junot's close friends:

Colonel Bessières, as he still only held that rank at the time, was at that time considered to be one of Junot's close friends.

However, with a caveat in a footnote:

Since then, this friendship cooled. I have always deplored the cause, which was as futile and ridiculous as possible, especially between two men such as Bessières and Junot, both young sprouts from the same tree and destined to live under its shade. I was the judge between the two of them, and I must say that I did not always rule in favour of Junot.

In the same chapter, Laure also mentions Bessières sharing his lodgings with Eugène and the two of them partying hard:

He was then colonel of the guides, i.e. the mounted chasseurs of the consular guard, together with Eugène Beauharnais. They were living in the same lodgings, and rumour had it that they were both very fond of all the joys that come with fortune and youth.

Does anybody happen to know what „futile and ridiculous“ thing caused the friendship between Bessières and Junot to break up? My first guess would have been a woman. But it might as well have been Bessières' catholicism?

#napoleon's marshals #jean baptiste bessières #napoleon's generals #jean andoche junot #napoleon's family #eugène de beauharnais #paris 1800 #consulate

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flowwochair · 17 days

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You know where to find me! And I know where to look <3

#napoleonic era #napoleonic #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #napoleons marshals #joachim murat #jean baptiste bessières #bessimu

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elisabeth515 · 4 months

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Some old funny illustrations that I’ve probably already shared

Okay since there’s been a resurgence of interest in the Napoleonic Wars, my old content was constantly reposted so I thought I shall show you the deepest parts of the fandom:

BEHOLD THE LORDS—

#it’s been a long time coming #jean baptiste bessières #andre massena #jean lannes #jean-de-dieu soult #marshal cupcake #ravioli lord #ladder lord #bread man

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cadmusfly · 8 months

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Adorable 2 part video about Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières by a french woman who makes paper mache figurines and things, she starts off by reading some actual letters from the time period and then illustrates Bessières' life via figurines

Part 1, Part 2

#Jean-Baptiste Bessière #napoleon's marshals #the marshalate #napoleonic era #french history #discovered this while trying to get inspiration for story #Youtube

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donpishya · 10 months

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Murat and Bessières doodle I did as my first post on Instagram!

I haven't drawn them in a very long time....

I'm glad it came out nice, though it's a doodle☺️

#my art #doodle #jean baptiste bessières #joachim murat #napoleon’s marshals

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percivallorraine · 6 months

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art from my friend 摇摇乐.I pay for this .I am not the artist.

#napolenic #napoleon's marshals #napoleonic wars #joachim murat #jean baptiste bessières #bessimu #nail art #art

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ot-alsace · 5 months

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Marshal Bessières

#history #napoleonic wars #napoleon's marshals #marshal bessieres #jean baptiste bessières #bonapartism

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largecucumber · 1 month

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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

#napoleon’s marshals #napoleonic era #digital art #jean andoche junot #louis alexandre berthier #louis nicolas davout #michel ney #napoleon bonaparte #eugene de beauharnais #jean baptiste bessières #joachim murat #🌸😘✌️

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phatburd · 3 months

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Bessières and the 600,000+ Franc Question

For @josefavomjaaga

While going over sources and material related to Jean-Baptiste Bessières, there's one thing that keeps twigging my journalist Spidey sense, and I don't like that.

Always, without fail, it's presented as a fait accompli that Bessières blew anywhere between 600,000 to one million francs on his mistress, a Paris opera dancer named Virginie. The fact he had a mistress isn't actually unusual by itself, when compared to the affairs his peers carried on. The exceptions were probably the Davouts and the Lefebvres.

Furthermore, his wife, Marie-Jeanne, discovered the affair after his death when his personal affects were returned to her from the battlefield.

The massive debts the Marshal left behind bankrupted his family, necessitating that Marie-Jeanne into selling their estate, Chateau de Grignon, to cover some of it. Napoleon also paid down some of Bessières' debts and set up a yearly pension for Marie-Jeanne her son. According to some accounts, she struggled financially for the rest of her life.

This is what I don't like about it, and why it doesn't completely pass the sniff test.

I accept that Bessières died flat broke and in debt. In debt to whom, however? Who were his creditors?

When did he meet his mistress? Was that fortune spent over a period of years, or in a fairly short time?

Even as a Marshal of France he had to pay his officers out of his own pocket, and provide his own carriages and some supplies on campaign. If he was flat broke, how did he continue to pay his officers?

Bessières was also bad with money to begin with. He was known to be generous and charitable, to the point where he'd be giving away money to anyone whom he thought was more in need than he was with it. Allegedly, Virginie was in debt herself, and he paid down all of them out of the apparent goodness of his heart.

(This raises even more questions. Was she a gold digger, was she blackmailing him, was he totally besotted with her that he didn't realize what the hell he was doing? Was he just lonely? Did they have genuine feelings for one another? There's a lot of there there, but no real answers.)

My conclusion is, no, Bessières did not spend 600,000 to one million francs on his mistress. Her presence, however, was not helpful to his situation.

He paid down Virginie's debts, however much they were. Being terrible with money, he kept putting himself in a financial hole, and then he kept digging. The upkeep on Chateau de Grignon had to be ridiculous. He still had to pay his officers and his staff. He was probably borrowing and burning through money and racking up the debt. Like that meme goes, "This is fine" while everything's burning down around him. A bit like using a credit card to pay down a credit card, as one might do in the modern parlance.

(His financial problems may have contributed to his increasing depression towards the end of his life as well. Was someone blackmailing him with his debts? Another interesting question that can never be adequately addressed.)

From what I've gathered, he hid all his problems from pretty much everyone. Even Napoleon seemed caught off guard with how bad Bessières' finances were. I argue that the 600,000 to one million francs he owed upon his death were cumulative and not to a single person as the historical narrative wants people to believe.

It seems a small thing to be annoyed with, but there seems to be more than a bit of misogyny to lay all of Bessières' troubles on a single woman as the historical narrative seems to want to do.

Another thing ... if Bessières burned a lot of his recent correspondence towards the end of his life, what exactly was the evidence Marie-Jeanne discovered as proof of the affair. How did she prove it? Did other people know about the affair and kept her in the dark? If so, who was that?

In the novel, "The Battle" by Patrick Rimbaud, a semi-fictionalized account of the Battle of Aspern-Essling, Rimbaud's characterization of Bessières has him wear two gold lockets under his Marshal's uniform. One for Marie-Jeanne, the other for Virginie. I don't know if Rimbaud based that on an actual account, or if it was something he made up. I have a lot of problems with that book though, probably because the translation seems somewhat robotic and not great. It's an interesting idea, however, and maybe worth keeping around as a headcanon.

Did Madame Bessières struggle financially for the rest of her life afterwards? Possibly. I don't have enough information to make a conclusion there, but it's not impossible. She did continue to faithfully visit his tomb for years after his death.

TL;DR Bessières died broke and in debt but it wasn't all because of his mistress. If someone else has something to the contrary, I'd love to read it.

#in my headcanon #the other locket has Murat's portrait in it #now wouldn't that be trippy for people to find #jean baptiste bessières #napoleon's marshals #my old journalism professor would have an apoplexy reading some of these historical accounts #they fail the basic how what when why where test #napoleonic era

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vermutandherring · 5 months

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Jean-Baptiste Bessières for @phatburd because I do read tags and comments to my posts, hehe (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ He looks a bit younger in Sims because ReShade softens little face details like wrinkles.

From the backstage to my Napoleon's Egypt expedition

No matter how much they couldn't stand each other in life, Sims makes everyone crack jokes.

Just a bit more of Jean Lannes

CC credits are in the mentioned post above. Bessières' hair is Keith Hair by @johnnysimmer

#sims #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #the sims 4 historical #ts4 historical #sims 4 historical #napoleonic era sims 4 #napoleon's marshals #jean baptiste bessières #jean lannes #joachim murat #napoleon

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