#Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt

[empirearchives]

Napoleon found that his friendships with men often began with physical attraction, and this took a curious form. ‘He told me,’ says Caulaincourt, ‘... that for him the heart was not the organ of sentiment; that he felt emotions only where most men experience feelings of a different kind: nothing in the heart, everything in the loins and in another place, which I leave nameless.’ The feeling Napoleon described as ‘a sort of painful tingling, a nervous irritability... the squeaking of a saw sometimes gives me the same sensation.’

Source: Vincent Cronin, Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography

#I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS A REAL QUOTE #Caulaincourt #Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt #Vincent Cronin #Cronin #napoleon #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #Napoleon bio #quote is also in ‘No Peace with Napoleon’ #first french empire #19th century #french empire

[roehenstart]

Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt (1773–1827) in attire of "Grand Écuyer" (Grand Esquire). By Féréol Bonnemaison.

#Féréol Bonnemaison #french aristocracy #full length portrait #french empire #empire français #full-length portrait #imperial aristocracy #souvenirs du duc de vicence #caulaincourt

[histoireettralala]

Young Caulaincourt, Lannes, Fouché, and Ney, with FaceApp :^)

#face app #for fun #armand augustin louis de caulaincourt #jean lannes #joseph fouché #michel ney

[isa-ko]

I wanted to draw a not-marshal this time

#napoleonic #history art #french history #armand-augustin-louis de caulaincourt #aide-de-camp #i need to do more research on him :(

[deceptigoons-attack]

In 1805, on his way to Milan to receive the Italian crown, Napoleon allowed himself "two days off between two crowns" and stopped in Brienne, to see the places of his childhood again.

One morning, while riding a horse in the middle of the countryside, he suddenly left the company behind him, rushed through fields and forests, then disappeared. There is panic among the officers. Where has the Emperor gone?

After three hours of fruitless search, Caulaincourt had the idea of ​​firing a pistol in the air, which did not fail to bring Napoleon after a few minutes.

"He approached them laughing, happy that he, the master of 40 million men, had been his own for three hours."

Source. (Note: I translated this from French so it may not be 100% accurate)

#Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt #Napoleon Bonaparte #Napoleon #french history #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #la grand armee

[handfuloftime]

In 1806, Vivant Denon, the director of the Louvre, commissioned two series of portraits of state officials to be displayed in the imperial palaces. One set, intended for Fontainebleau, depicted the six grand officers of the Maison impériale in court dress. 

Grand chambellan: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, Prince de Bénévent - Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, 1807 (Musée Carnavalet)

Grand veneur: Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Prince de Neufchâtel et Wagram, maréchal de France - Jacques Augustin Catherine Pijou, 1808 (Palais de Versailles)

Grand écuyer: Armand de Caulaincourt, duc de VIcence, en habit de Grand écuyer - Féréol Bonnemaison, 1806 (private collection)

Grand maréchal: Maréchal Duroc, duc de Frioul, Grand Maréchal du palais de S.M. l’Empéreur Napoléon Ier - Antoine-Jean Gros, 1805 (Musée de beaux-arts de Nancy)

Grand aumonier: Joseph Fesch, cardinal - Charles Meynier, 1806 (Palais de Versailles)

Grand maître des cérémonies: Louis-Philippe de Ségur - Artist Unknown (Palais de Versailles) [Denon commissioned the official portrait of Ségur from Marie-Guillemine Benoist, but I can’t find it online anywhere (maybe it’s in a private collection?), so here’s another portrait of Ségur instead.]

#talleyrand #berthier #caulaincourt #duroc #joseph fesch #louis-philippe de ségur #napoleonic era #art

[count-lero]

Soooo I’m a little bit at a loss and just simply try to post… something, I guess??? 😂

Few drawings from the past year which I still adore!

The first one represents count Michail Andreevich Miloradovich, one of the bravest and most restless generals of the Russian Empire during Napoleonic wars. 🇷🇺🇷🇸🇺🇦 ✨

The second one shows Dominique-Jean baron Larrey, famous french field surgeon. 🇫🇷🩸

And in the third picture we have the one and only Armand Augustin Louis marquis de Caulaincourt, french general and diplomat who served twice as french ambassador in Saint-Petersburg. 🇫🇷✒️🗡

#count’s drawings #art #miloradovich #general miloradovich #dominique-jean larrey #armand de caulaincourt #napoleonic wars #russian empire #french empire #first empire #19th century

[joachimnapoleon]

Napoleon to Caulaincourt:

“I make myself out to be worse than I really am,” he said to me laughingly; “for I have observed that the French are always ready to eat out of one’s hand. They lack seriousness; consequently, that quality impresses them most. I am supposed to be severe, even hard! So much the better! It saves me from having to be so! My firmness passes for insensibility; and it is partly to this impression that we owe the existing state of good order, although the Revolution is so recent, and although we have a generation among us reared in disorder and with no conception of morality or religion. So I do not complain of my reputation. Believe me, Caulaincourt, I’m only human! Whatever some people may say, I have a tender heart—but it is the heart of a sovereign. The tears of a duchess move me to no pity whatsoever, but I am touched by the woes of peoples. I want to see them happy; and the French shall be so. If I live ten years, there will be contentment everywhere. Don’t you suppose I enjoy giving pleasure? It does me good to see a happy face; but I am compelled to defend myself against this natural disposition, lest advantage be taken of it. I found that out more than once with Josephine, who was always begging me for things, and could even cry me into granting what I ought to have refused her.”

Source: Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza

#Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #Caulaincourt #memoirs #1812 #quotes #19th century #history

[spartasanks]

“I do not care about the throne. Born a solider, I can, without feeling sorry for myself, become a citizen again. My happiness is not in grandeur. I wanted to see France great and powerful, and above all happy. I prefer to leave the throne than to sign a shameful peace.” - Napoleon Bonaparte, letter to Armand-Augustin-Louis Marquis de Caulaincourt, 1 April 1814 (at Tokyo Sky Tree) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHKOzC8HSMh/?igshid=14sj3jqp46f5u

[deceptigoons-attack]

"The door of the monument was open, Napoléon paused at the entrance in a grave and respectful attitude. He gazed into the shadow enclosing the hero's [Frederick the Great] ashes, and stood thus for nearly ten minutes motionless, silent, as if buried in deep thought. There were five or six of us with him: Duroc, Caulaincourt, an aide-de-camp and I. We gazed at this solemn and extraordinary scene, imagining the two great men face to face, identifying ourselves with the thoughts we ascribed to our Emperor before that other genius whose glory survived the overthrow of his work, who was as great in extreme adversity as in success."

(General Ségur)

#Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #frederick the great #Géraud Duroc #Duroc #Armand-Augustin-Louis Caulaincourt #Caulaincourt #Philippe Paul comte de Ségur #Ségur #Napoleonic era #history #french history #napoleonic wars

[jeanandochejunot]

a caulaincourt i drew once

#caulaincourt #armand augustin louis de caulaincourt