With Napoleon on St. Helena, Pages 260-270.

Napoleon offers to protect France from the invading foreign forces. The French elite say “No”, they’d rather hand France over to their enemies. Sound familiar?


We recently finished: With Napoleon in Russia. Now we’re reading the memoirs of Napoleon’s Valet Marchand from their time together all over Europe and at St. Helena.


Then I will read the Memoirs of Hortense Bonaparte. All three writers of these memoirs are considered exceptionally honest. All three essentially lived with Napoleon. Then I plan to read Napoleon’s letters to Josephine. You will see that Napoleon is the same person in all of these accounts. I’m doing this because I believe this is important and that our whole present world-in-crisis comes out of this True story.


Click here for the amazing first book of this series: With Napoleon in Russia:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvUdq551YU&list=PLeJCvClnhzjj-KIRi759Nt5dbonlGyJ1p


Also available at:


soundcloud.com/thetanster

 

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No matter how hard I tried or how many books I wrote I couldn’t get a literary agent or a book deal.

Eventually, after writing 6+ books, I finally, after much anguish, gave up. Want to know what the last straw was? The day I opened up Entertainment Weekly and they were announcing Pamela Anderson’s big new book deal. How could I ever compete with Pamela Anderson as a writer?

 

Here we explore the biggest writer of our time - a person who possesses talent but brings the masses one disgusting nightmare after another. I have a relative who is a big fan of this writer. He is so depressed, it’s heart breaking.  Coincidence or by design? 

 

https://youtu.be/mtS1xUQTmog 

With Napoleon on St. Helena, Pages 250-260.

Napoleon sacrifices himself to save France from civil war.

We recently finished: With Napoleon in Russia. Now we’re reading the memoirs of Napoleon’s Valet Marchand from their time together all over Europe and at St. Helena.


Then I will read the Memoirs of Hortense Bonaparte. All three writers of these memoirs are considered exceptionally honest. All three essentially lived with Napoleon. Then I plan to read Napoleon’s letters to Josephine. You will see that Napoleon is the same person in all of these accounts. I’m doing this because I believe this is important and that our whole present world-in-crisis comes out of this True story.

Click here for the amazing first book of this series: With Napoleon in Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvUdq551YU&list=PLeJCvClnhzjj-KIRi759Nt5dbonlGyJ1p

Also available at:

soundcloud.com/thetanster


https://youtu.be/xGzN1nfoIO0

Special commentary on tonight’s reading: Notice how Marchand always references Hortense with words concerning affection. He’s telling you something. They had a sacred love. But Marchand didn’t want to fuel the rumors of his day that they were lovers. They weren’t. I find it odd how they generally cut Hortense out of the story and then super expand Josephine’s role. There is a reason. Hortense is the one woman who was with Napoleon the whole time he ruled. That’s because he wanted her there. She tried to get away from him. So much of the story is between the two of them and their inability to connect like they both really wanted to.


Napoleon made her the mother of his heir, the godmother of his son with Marie Louise (which I’m sure she wasn’t happy about).


He gave Hortense the throne of Holland which she didn’t even want. He was always trying to impress and please her. She’d tell him she didn’t want any of these things, she’d say she wanted love. It’s a very tragic love story.


I don’t think Caulaincourt and Marchand deal with it because it might’ve made Napoleon look a bit incestuous. (When technically he wasn’t.)


Hortense and Napoleon worshipped each other. He would’ve done much better with a wife like her. That’s why I’m doing all of this set up for HER memoirs.