The very thought of you
This French language movie is actually fair to the Emperor
Much of this film was shot at the locations where the events actually took place. They didn’t invent too much dialogue but they did invent a scene where Hortense confesses her adoration for Napoleon. I do think Hortense was obvious in her adoration of him.
Napoleon was obvious about his adoration for her as well. At their final parting (in the memoirs/not this film), Napoleon left Hortense trying to pull every lever he could to try and get her to follow him to where he was going.
She had to do what she could to protect his heirs for the future. Getting murdered along with Napoleon would not have fulfilled Napoleon’s true aim. She was CERTAIN they would kill him. She reared the best Napoleon she could in her son Louis Napoleon who became Napoleon III. You know Napoleon III must have done good because he is so poorly honored by the present establishment. The man who made Paris the most beautiful city in the world (Napoleon III, with much help from his uncle) is only honored in Paris by a tiny tin plaque near a train station in Northern Paris. Yet the whole place is a monument to his great work.
Vive l’Empereur!
Good cop/bad cop is a game you’ll find their bag of tricks.
Recognizing their acting goes a long way towards not falling into their traps.
Memoirs of Roustam about Napoleon, beginning - 70
A victim of child trafficking finds himself following the fortunes of Napoleon.
https://www.thetanster.com/blog/2019/2/11/napoleon-memoirs-links
What if Napoleon had won the wars waged against him?
I have gotten the feeling that the people around Napoleon had no problem believing that Napoleon would have ruled France until his death. He seemed strong enough to face the continual wrath of his enemies.
Assuming his rule until his death had been possible which even Napoleon on St. Helena viewed as impossible (though he hated to acknowledge that anything could be impossible), then his son would have taken over. Napoleon felt he had to be aggressive to maintain power against so many autocrats which led to that famous overreach that we hear so much about concerning Napoleon.
The other main preoccupation of Napoleon was that he foresaw that the world would become enslaved to England’s massive debt that they had incurred in part by bribing so many to bring him down.
He also foresaw that the English government, which he absolutely viewed as operating in “bad faith”, would come to tyrannise Europe one way or another. I personally suspect that the public is lied to today about the true nature of that government’s “overreach” but that most of the public has been so dumbed down with garbage media propaganda that they can’t even see all the lies they are told anymore.
The perception at the time of Napoleon was that maybe through strong man tactics (the only that could’ve kept the autocrats at bay), Napoleon could have maintained his throne but then all his enemies would’ve swarmed his son.
I don’t really see anyone in the Napoleon memoirs thinking that any son of Napoleon’s could’ve faced the combined wrath of all his enemies. Even if Napoleon had had the kind of strength to maintain his rule, because of massive infiltration - he did not. A divided house could not stand and many betrayed the best interests of Europe so they could sell out and get theirs.
The story is fascinating and our present situation directly originates from it:
https://www.thetanster.com/blog/2019/2/11/napoleon-memoirs-links
C’est Moi
A look at the memoirist Roustam
Later on tonight, we will start to share the memoirs of a Georgian man who was enslaved as a child. In Egypt, Roustam was gifted to Napoleon and this warrior was probably in closer proximity to Napoleon than anyone else during his years of glory.
