Napoleon used licorice as a cure and until the cruelty of St. Helena it mostly worked. He consumed snuff but not really. Mostly it fell around. He fed snuff to the gazelles at Malmaison who only liked him and everyone says the gazelles enjoyed the snuff and didn’t suffer ill effects.
Throwing certain correspondence on the floor meant it was “answered”. Napoleon’s writing was so illegible he could hardly make it out.
It’s said Napoleon made a mess of his white breeches by blotting out his pen on them. He habitually wore little slippers. Napoleon liked to attend masked balls dressed as a domino.
Napoleon wore a uniform way below his rank every single day and just couldn’t feel like himself in regular stylish clothing.
One of his favorite lines was, “When I had the honor to be a sub lieutenant” and then he’d talk about how little he spent on necessities back then.
He was a bit obsessed with his stepdaughter so he forced her to become a Bonaparte (by marrying her to Napoleon’s awful brother) which she consented to because she loved Napoleon back. He was especially fond of arranging marriages which was a favorite hobby between him and his stepdaughter even though he had created such a terrible marriage for her. He usually sat next to his stepdaughter at meals and he kept her as the third wheel of BOTH of his marriages which I’m sure his second wife didn’t like one bit.
I really could go on. Napoleon was very eccentric.
