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microcosme11 · 1 year

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LA DERNIÈRE PASSION DE NAPOLÉON. LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE [NAPOLEON’S LAST PASSION: THE ST HELENA LIBRARY]

Article about this book on napoleon.org. Thanks to @awesomenapoblog for asking about Byron. I still don’t know whether his book was there, I read it somewhere, maybe it’s in this book.

#Napoleon's library #St. Helena #Mameluke Ali #saint-Denis

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amicus-noctis · 6 months

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“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting: "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Jacques-Louis David

Just watched the new Napoleon film. It was so beautiful how much Napoleon loved Josephine.

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captainknell · 9 months

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The Napoleonic library has now taken over the ENTIRE bookshelf

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic library #my books #antique books #first project of the day complete!#i kicked my husband's books off the shelf lol

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empirearchives · 1 year

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Speaking of Napoleon’s passion for library science, here is a really sweet statue of him reading in Valence 🥺

Installed in 2010 (source)

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classicliteratureprincess · 2 months

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Reading this masterpiece, translated by #constance garnett

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escapismsworld · 10 months

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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Antonio Canova

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cool-as-steel · 2 months

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I really do like it when you enter the book feeling Dread and Expecting The Horrors but instead you discover a book which is. Fairly Okay Actually.

#the captain's library #my reviews thus far for 'a lady for a duke' are 'I do not think I am the target audience for this but I've gotten halfway through without #once wanting to chew glass' and 'AHAHA 95TH RIFLES JUMPSCARE'#95th rifles everywhere forever. funny as all get-out that this keeps happening.#anyway. more to the point I think that my quibbles are mostly in the vein of Well The Book Wasn't Really Trying To Do That #(setting-texture and specific clothing logistics being the main ones here)#and I feel like the parts of the plot that revolve around community and identity and addiction are being smoothed out too easily #but Then Again my bar for 'strangegirl/man with laudanum problem and also napoleon is there' is diana/stephen #and nothing is ever going to be on pob's level for Whatever That Is.#the gender parts of the deal are so far nothing worth writing home about but it's nice that the book exists!#all in all it's not going to be a favorite or a reread but it's light and not terrible and I'm having a Little fun at the very least

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hueberryshortcake · 7 months

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ok I gotta go through my drafts and inbox rn

#what i GOTTA do is write the first draft of an essay analyzing the role of animation propaganda in wwii which i have had three weeks to star #start and haven't exactly and it's due in five days.#and also an essay about napoleon and also a persuasive speech about like i literally dont even know #but im not at the library yet. <3

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intothestacks · 3 months

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#napoleon bonaparte #librarylife #libraryland #libraries #book lover #reading #quotable quotes #famous quotes

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mtlibrary · 1 year

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

These images come from Middle Temple Library's copy of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. The story follows the lives of the “good natured” Amelia Sedley and the story’s manipulative “anti-heroine", Becky Sharp during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflected both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and Thackeray’s illustrations which accompanied the text. This centenary biographical edition was published in 1910 and includes an introduction by the author’s daughter Anne Thackeray Ritchie.

#rarebook #rare books #vanity fair #napoleonic wars #libraries #books & libraries #library #bookshelf #books #books and reading #becky sharp #william makepeace thackeray #satire

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carreimperial · 10 months

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Le devoir de l'historien

Extrait du mémorial de Sainte Hélène - Napoléon 1er

"Mes détracteurs auront beau retrancher, supprimer, mutiler, il leur sera bien difficile de me faire disparaître tout à fait. Un historien honnête devra me rendre quelque chose, et sa tâche sera aisée, car les faits parlent, ils brillent comme le soleil.

J’ai refermé le gouffre anarchique et débrouillé le chaos. J’ai purifié la révolution et ennobli les peuples. J’ai excité toutes les émulations, récompensé tous les mérites, et reculé les limites de la gloire ! Tout cela est bien quelque chose !

Et puis sur quoi pourrait-on m’attaquer, qu’un historien ne puisse me défendre ? Serait-ce mes intentions ? Mais il démontrera qu’elles visaient toujours le bien public. Serait-ce mon despotisme ? Mais il démontrera qu’une ferme autorité était une absolue nécessité. Dira-t-on que j’ai gêné la liberté ? Mais il prouvera que la licence, l’anarchie, les grands désordres, étaient encore au seuil de la porte. M’accusera-t-on d’avoir trop aimé la guerre ? Mais il montrera que j’ai toujours été attaqué. M’accusera-t-on d’avoir voulu la monarchie universelle ? Mais il fera voir qu’elle ne fut que l’oeuvre fortuite des circonstances, que ce furent nos ennemis eux-mêmes qui m’y conduisirent pas à pas.

Enfin sera-ce mon ambition ? Ah, sans doute, il m’en trouvera, et beaucoup, mais de la plus grande et la plus haute qui fût peut-être jamais ! Celle d’établir, de consacrer enfin l’empire de la raison et le plein exercice, l’entière jouissance de toutes les facultés humaines. Et ici l’historien se trouvera conduit à devoir regretter qu’une telle ambition n’ait pas été totalement accomplie.

En bien peu de mots, voilà pourtant toute mon histoire."

#19th century #napoleon #histoire #historien“”“#books #books & libraries #book quotes #quotes

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captainknell · 6 months

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Had to get another bookshelf for the ever growing library

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic library #my collection #books #antique books

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empirearchives · 8 months

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“Like a meteor, due to a chance play of Fate, he as a thunderstorm flew in the midst of us.”

— Mikhail Lermontov on Napoleon

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#😭#Fundamental Electronic Library ‘Russian literature and folklore’#Фундамента́льная электро́нная библиоте́ка «Ру́сская литерату́ра и фолькло́р»#Mikhail Lermontov #Lermontov #Napoleon #quote #quotes #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #french revolution #frev #first french empire #french empire #Russia #writers and Napoleon

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foxesonstilts · 2 years

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first ruehob character sketches i did immediately after being introduced to acofaf by @tinypi back in october 💚

#these are very grungy cuz i only have pictures BUT #can ye tell i enjoy drawing napoleonic era military jackets #k.p. hob #delloso de la rue #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20 #i think these are literally on the back of some of pi's like. library documents lmao

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mycological-mariner · 9 months

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Just as with nature walks, I am not to be trusted unattended in a library. I went in to pick up one book and left with four others with two on reserve.

#I’m so upset though! in the ENTIRE COUNTY no library had A First Rate Tragedy #there one cd audiobook in like. porthcurno. or bodmin or somewhere beginning with P or B #I like to be able to hold books ya know?#but. yeah. every single book I got today was history in some manner #Sagittarius Rising; Cornwall during The First World War #a collection of Cornish History Essays; Modern Cornish Grammar and a history thereof #and a biography abt Pellew bc I actually can’t not read more after the little snippets in Truro During The Napoleonic Wars #luckily I may be sent to hospital (I guess unluckily) depending on how this appointment goes #so I’ll have PLENTY of time to read #estoy emocionado #new books! new books!#*used books! used books!#if I have to start IV antibiotics I REFUSE to be bored while doing so

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kissmefriendly · 2 years

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Talking about historical fiction with my grandma, trying unsubtley to get her to read the Aubrey Maturin books with me, she looks it up, finds this instead

and has informed me she will start reading the first book immediately and sends me a photo of her desktop screen so I can read it along with her - biggest Uno Reverse ever pulled on me, touché gran

#I love reading books at the same time as my grandma #we’ve finished reading the watch books together (or rather I finished reading them out loud TO her over WhatsApp)#so now we need something new #I told her hey let’s read the Witches series next you’ll love it! she said yes absolutely!#and now we’re simultaneously reading Napoleonic wars but with dragons #and as far as I understand it’s M&C fan fic but with dragons #I’m. im gonna finish my book first though??#and I’ll see if the library has these books #I don’t like reading digitally shit hurts my eyes #temeraire #I guess I’m reading this next?!#it kinda gives me (just from quickly reading the wiki description) master and commander and dr strange and mr norell vibes #my grandma is actually hilarious #she planned this out - she never wanted to read the Aubrey Maturin books but she didn’t wanna be rude so she found a loophole #it’s my theory at least #aubreyad #she’s more of a Jane Austen girlie #and I only JUST read persuasion (I liked it)#I was really looking forward to introducing her to the Discworld witches tho #but I’m so busy and she refuses to read discworld without me because ‘you always do the voices and I like the voices!’#i 100% do all the voices #im a voice actor ffs #also it’s fun #but I think I’ve ruined her reading experience BECAUSE I do the voices #rip

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