#emperor napoleon
A few more shots from the other day
Tournage « Napoléon » de Ridley Scott (2023)
A small video of Phoenix filming Napoleon.
This feels like Christmas for Napoleon people!
Enter stage left, one adulterous wife, Josephine.
Looks like Napoleon, in his fancy red coat, escorts the lady around the hellscape of Rue Nicaise.
Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix recreate would-be Napoleon killing
Another new movie?
“The last days of Napoleon Bonaparte living in exile on St Helena before his death. Suffering critical physical and mental health problems he is forced to confront his past.
Country of origin: Great Britain
Production Company: Webster Films
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15125680/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl#summary-po6136350
The Fair Mme Tallien
While Barras had directed operations on the 9th of Thermidor, the overthrow of Robespierre had been partly due to a woman–Tallien’s mistress, whom he afterwards married. She was known as ‘Our Lady of Thermidor’, and gathered about her a new society of influential men and pretty women. Here the banker Ouvard, the most brilliant financier of the day, first encountered Napoleon Buonaparte.
General Barras dominated this society. Another of its members was General Hoche, whose ardent soul and indomitable spirit were reflected in an expressive countenance.
Mme de Beauharnais adorned these circles by the sweetness of her nature and the charms of her mind. It was there that fortune, which was to raise her to such heights, made her acquainted with Bonaparte, then only commander of an artillery brigade, but already, on the occasions when his frigid reserve forsook him, betraying the profundity of his schemes and the burning ambition which filled his soul.
It was some time before the 13th of Vendemiaire that Bonaparte was introduced into Mme Tallien’s circle. Of all those composing it, he was perhaps the least prominent and the least favoured by fortune.
Politics furnished the usual stuff of conversation, but did not altogether engross it. Often, in the middle of the liveliest discussions, little groups would form in the drawing-room, where people were chatting frivolously to forget the grave interests which had too often preoccupied them.
Bonaparte rarely joined in. But when he did so, it was with a kind of abandon. He then exhibited a gaiety full of fire and wit.
One evening he assumed the tone and manner of a fortune-teller, seized Mme. Tallien’s hand and talked a flood of nonsense. Then all wanted to have their hands read. But when it was Hoche’s turn, his mood seemed to change. He studied carefully the lines of the hand offered him, and said in a solemn voice, clearly with malicious intent:
“General, you will die in your bed.”
For a moment Hoche’s face kindled with generous anger, but a sally from Mme Beauharnais dispersed the cloud, and revived the gaiety which had been chilled by this incident.
The equality prevailing in those days was chiefly based on a feeling of goodwill which over-rode differences in wealth and standing. The revolution had demolished such brilliant lives, it had taught us to put so little faith in the stability of the present, that no one could either blush for his distress or pride himself on his affluence.
A decree of the Committee of Public Safety dated Fructidor, year III, made officers on active service a grant of cloth for a uniform coat, waistcoat and breeches. Bonaparte applied for the benefit of this order. But as he had no right to it, not being on the active list, he was refused. Mme Tallien gave him a letter to M. Lefevre, quartermaster of the seventeenth division, and shortly before the famous day of Vendemiaire, the commissary acknowledged Mme Tallien’s recommendation by a grant of cloth to Bonaparte.
Napoleon In His Time, Jean Savant, pgs-31-32
Rod Steiger as Napoleon, Waterloo
Thing in my collection:
Empress Josephine’s Rose Garden collectable box
Limited edition: Fine Porcelain
1980
An artist and his work,
“‘Hello, I am your Emperor and I will be serving you tonight, Can I start you with some wine?”’
“The Napoleons”
Commemorative Stamps from St. Helena
“I’m waiting…”
Ridley Scott’s ‘Kitbag’ Changes Title to Something Much Less Imaginative
Rumor has it that Phoenix is in London getting ready to film Kitbag, now as these people are disappointed to tell you has been renamed, Napoleon.
According to this article the movie will be released in 2023 on Apple streaming service?
I’m curious. I think Ridley Scott is a good choice, and there’s no real doubt that Phoenix can act.
Claude reports for light dusting duty, disguising his featherduster in his hat.
Napoleon leaving Elba by Joseph Beaume, 1836
In April 1814, with a European coalition occupying Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to abdicate the French throne. He was sent into exile on Elba, a small Mediterranean island located 260 km (160 miles) south of France and 10 km (6 miles) west of the Italian coastline. Ten months later, in one of those life-is-stranger-than-fiction episodes, Napoleon managed to spirit himself off the island and regain the French crown. To find out how and why Napoleon escaped from Elba, see: https://shannonselin.com/2016/02/how-did-napoleon-escape-from-elba/.
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