#emmanuel de grouchy

[captainknell]

Happy birthday Marshal Grouchy! October 23, 1766

#marshal grouchy #Emmanuel de Grouchy #happy birthday #Napoleons marshals

[northernmariette]

Tomorrow October 23 is Marshal Grouchy's birthday, and hard on its heels is Marshal Lefebvre's on October 25.

As mentionned in a previous post, extra bragging rights for those who come up with interesting tidbits regarding Grouchy, whose life doesn't seem to have interested biographers. I have managed to find the merest crumbs.

#marshals' save the date calendar #emmanuel de grouchy #francois lefebvre #napoleon's marshals

[isa-ko]

Alright, second to last marshal! The last one is probably easy to figure out

#marshal grouchy #emmanuel de grouchy #napoleonic #when I was drawing just his face #he looked like a math teacher for some reason

[koda-friedrich]

Manu♦️

#歴史創作 #my art #napoleonic #napoleon's marshals #Emmanuel de Grouchy

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to marquis Emmanuel de Grouchy, son of Oscar de Grouchy

#happybirthday #emmanuel de grouchy #oscar the grouch #sesame street

[amypihcs]

The happiest of Birthdays to marshal Strawberry ehm... Grouchy

#happy 256th birthday! #marshal grouchy #emmanuel de grouchy #napoleonic birthdays #yes i had to make the strawberry joke #marshal strawberry

[armagnac-army]

ON THE LEFT WE HAVE A NERD

WITHOUT HIM THE ENTIRE GRANDE ARMEE WOULD FALL APART!!!! HE ALSO GOT HIS MISTRESS TO LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH HIS WIFE BECAUSE HES JUST THAT GOOD AT DIPLOMACY AND HE HAD A CREEPY STALKER SHRINE TO THAT MISTRESS BEFORE HE WAS FORCED TO GET MARRIED

ON THE RIGHT WE HAVE A KING

I STILL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW A FRENCHMAN BECAME THE KING OF SWEDEN ALSO HES REALLY CLOSE WITH HIS MINISTER MAGNUS BRAHE AND APPARENTLY IT WAS REALLY SUSPICIOUS WHEN THEY WERE HAVING “POLICY MEETINGS” IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN BED

WHICH OF NAPOLEONS MARSHALS OF THE EMPIRE IS GOING TO WIN THE TITLE OF MOST PEOPLE CLICKING ON THEIR BUTTON???

LINKS TO SEE WHAT YOU MISSED OUT ON

MARSHALATE POPULARITY POLL

MARSHALATE PITY POLL

#napoleon’s marshals #jean-baptiste bernadotte #louis alexandre berthier #marshalate popularity ballot #marshalate popularity poll #dispatches from the marshal

[cadmusfly]

Tag Yourself: Unabridged Shitty Drawing Marshal of the Empire Edition

Yes All 26 Of Them + Bonus 2

drawn and compiled by yours truly, initial and probably inaccurate research assisted by Chet Jean-Paul Tee, additional research from Napoleon and his Marshals by A G MacDonnell, Swords Around A Throne by John R Elting and a bunch of other books and Wikipedia pages

captions under images

mike (Michel Ney)

- full of every emotion

- always has ur back

joe (Joachim Murat)

- it's called fashion sweetheart

- will not stop flirting

lens (Jean Lannes)

- bestie who will call u out on ur shit

- does not like their photo taken

bessie (Jean-Baptiste Bessieres)

- actually nice under the ice

- was born in the wrong generation

dave (Louis-Nicolas Davout)

- overachiever

- 20 year old boomer

salt (Jean-de-Dieu Soult)

- people think ur up to no good

- doesn’t cope with sudden changes 2 plans

andrew (Andre Massena)

- actually up to no good

- sleepy until special interest is activated

bertie (Louis-Alexandre Berthier)

- carries the group project

- voted most likely to make a stalker shrine

auggie (Pierre Augereau)

- shady past full of batshit stories

- will not stop swearing in the christian minecraft server

lefrank (François Joseph Lefebvre)

- dad friend

- in my day we walked to school uphill both ways

big mac (Étienne Macdonald)

- brutally honest

- won't let you borrow their charger even if they have 100%

gill (Guillaume Brune)

- love-hate relationship with group chats

- pretends not to care, checks social media every 2 minutes

ouchie (Nicholas Oudinot)

- needs to buy bandages in bulk

- a little aggro

pony (Józef Antoni Poniatowski)

- can't swim

- tries 2 hard to fit in, everyone secretly loves them anyway

grumpy (Emmanuel de Grouchy)

- can't find them when u need them

- complains about the music, never suggests alternatives

bernie (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)

- always talks about their other friendship group

- most successful, nobody knows how

monty (Auguste de Marmont)

- does not save u a seat

- causes drama and then lurks in the background

monch (Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey)

- last to leave the party

- dependable

morty (Édouard Mortier)

- everyone looks up 2 them literally and figuratively

- golden retriever friend

jordan (Jean-Baptiste Jourdan)

- volunteers other people for things

- has 20+ alarms but still oversleeps

kelly (François Christophe de Kellermann)

- old as balls but still got it

- waiting in the wings

gov (Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr)

- infuriatingly modest about their art skills

- thinks too much before they speak

perry (Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon)

- low-key rich, only buys things on sale

- “let’s order pizza” solution to everything

sachet (Louis-Gabriel Suchet)

- dependable friend who always brings snacks

- lowkey keeps the group together

cereal (Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier)

- unnervingly methodical and precise about fun

- will delete your social media after u die

vic (Claude Victor-Perrin)

- loves spicy food but can’t handle it

- says they're fine, not actually fine

Bonus!

june (Jean Andoche Junot)

- chaotic disaster bisexual

- will kill a man 4 their bestie

the rock (Géraud Duroc)

- keeps a tidy house

- mom friend with snacks

#napoleon’s marshals #napoleonic era #napoleonic shitposting #napoleonic wars #history shitposting #cadmus draws #I thought it would be funny if it was hand drawn #i had to draw these over a few weeks or else my RSI ridden fingers would explode #I will reblog this a few times because this is so stupid and I’m proud of this #yes chatgpt helped because I’m not actually familiar with most of the 26 #ended up editing a lot of it but some entries are less based on history and more based on vibes #and as we know vibes are extremely accurate

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

#napoleonic sexyman tournament #new pinned post for now

[shannonselin]

Emmanuel de Grouchy, later Marshal Grouchy, as Colonel of 2nd Dragoons in 1792, by Georges Rouget, 1835

Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy was a skilled cavalry officer who had a long career of service in the French army. This record has been overshadowed by accusations – originating with Napoleon and his followers on Saint Helena – that Marshal Grouchy was in large part responsible for Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. After Waterloo, Grouchy went into exile in the United States, where he began the frustrating process of defending himself against allegations of incompetence, cowardice and treachery. For details, see “Marshal Grouchy in America.”

#emmanuel de grouchy #marshal grouchy #napoleonic #napoleonic wars #georges rouget #exile in america

[histoireettralala]

“Never had a day been so painful to me”

The battle has been lasting for six hours when a Russian column of 5000 grenadiers attacks the hillock of Eylau where Napoleon is and directly threatens the barn which serves as ambulance to Larrey: "At the moment when a real consolation was spreading in the soul of all our wounded, an unexpected movement made by the enemy's right wing to overwhelm our left, precisely on the point of the ambulance, almost caused trouble in all these unfortunates: already some, who could walk, had fled; others were making vain efforts to follow them and to escape this unforeseen attack by the enemy: but we were their supports; we were to die with them rather than seek ignominious salvation. I hastened to complete the section I had started on one leg and in the presence of all the wounded who remained,  I expressed forcefully the resolution I had taken not to give up my post; I assured them that, whatever the result of this alert which appeared wrong to me, they had nothing to fear for their lives. All my students rallied around me, and swore not to leave me. "[..]

The arrival of Ney's army corps, at 7 o'clock in the evening, decides the Russian generals to evacuate Eylau and to retreat in good order under cover of the night. Forty-seven thousand victims, French and Russians, killed or wounded, lie there, countless red spots soon covered with snow, petrified by the cold, lit by the flames of the latest fires. The muteness of the living responds to the silence of the dead. "We spent the rest of the night on the icy snow, around the ambulance bivouac fire. Never had a day been so painful to me; never had my soul been so deeply moved: it had been impossible for me to hold back my tears, at the very moments when I sought to sustain the courage of my wounded. "

Hundreds of them arrived at the barn on that fatal day. General d'Hautpoul, hero of the cavalry charge, had his right thigh fractured and torn apart by a blow from a musket [..]

During the charge, General Grouchy, at the head of his dragoons, feels his horse fall under him, killed. He gets up, takes a saber strike before being taken prisoner. Not for long because his aide-de-camp, Lafayette's son, frees him. Bloodied, Grouchy gets back in the saddle and resumes the charge. Only Napoleon's order to get bandaged by Larrey stops him!

The wound is superficial, quickly sutured, like that of the arm of General Morand, another hero of the day.

General Rabusson of the Guard's light cavalry prevented the enemy from invading Larrey's barn and saved the lives of the wounded threatened with being impaled by Russian bayonets. Brought by his companions, "the appearance of this wounded man was frightful, he did not have a human face, he was in imminent danger and covered with wounds; there were seventeen: the most serious were to the head and to the chest." In particular three bayonet blows to the skull, forehead, left cheek with dental fractures, accompanied by three saber blows to the thorax with blowing pulmonary wounds. Larrey closes them immediately, then unbridles the facial wounds before methodically suturing them, "a few cups of broth and a little good wine indeed revived him, and I judged him fit for evacuation ..." before healing!

[..]

At the beginning of the night, Napoleon, true to his habit of visiting the wounded, arrives at the barn after having walked through the fields covered with corpses piled on top of each other. Looking overwhelmed, he tries to smile sadly at the sick, encourages them to heal, recommends them to Larrey or promises a pension to the wives and children of those who are about to die. The next day, the Emperor returns to find Larrey like the day before, operating standing in the frozen snow, in his windswept barn.

Jean Marchioni - Place à monsieur Larrey, chirurgien de la garde impériale

#napoleonic #jean marchioni #place à monsieur larrey #battle of eylau #dominique jean larrey #napoléon bonaparte #michel ney #jean joseph ange d'hautpoul #emmanuel de grouchy #georges washington de la fayette #charles antoine louis alexis morand #jean rabusson

[northernmariette]

Happy birthday, Marshal Grouchy!

As expected, I was able to post only this minuscule tidbit about Marshal Grouchy. This is taken from the introduction to Volume II of General Lubin Griois, page IX, found on Gallica : " Grouchy est brave, prudent, et il a la confiance des troupes." In translation, Grouchy is brave, prudent, and the troops trust him.

@joachimnapoleon and @josefavomjaaga carried the day for Marshal Grouchy.

#marshals' save the date calendar #emmanuel de grouchy

[joachimnapoleon]

23 October 1766–Emmanuel de Grouchy, future Marshal of France, is born.

Last-made of the marshals, Emmanuel de Grouchy was of the “ancient chivalry” of France, his family acknowledged aristocracy from at least the fourteenth century.... Grouchy began at fourteen at the Strasbourg artillery school but soon changed to the cavalry.... However, Grouchy, whether at Strasbourg or in his Norman home, had become a convert to the reform movement then building thoroughout France. In 1787 he retired.... He volunteered for service in 1791; a year later he was a general of brigade. From the first it was known that he was “a horseman by nature and a cavalry soldier by instinct.” Better, he knew how to handle forces of all arms and took good care of his men. When he was suspended in 1793 because he was an aristocrat, his troops came close to mutiny.... He had an important part in the pursuit after Jena, and at Eylau, Friedland, Wagram, and Borodino and a dozen cavalry engagements between those great battles. He took twenty-three wounds in all..... Grouchy’s correspondence shows a thin-skinned man, reluctant to assume responsibility yet conscientious in discharging it. Actually, he was abler than he realized. He failed to show the necessary initiative during Waterloo but, left isolated after that battle, managed a masterful retreat.... Clean-handed and very courageous, he was unquestioningly loyal to France and to his Emperor. Several generations of Frenchmen made him the scapegoat for Waterloo, and his writings in that role were not always dignified. But he served long, valorously, and well, and due honor should not be denied him.

-John R.Elting, Swords Across a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée

#Emmanuel de Grouchy #Napoleon’s marshals #Napoleonic wars #today in history

[aetheryn]

Sometimes Photoshop is both a blessing and a curse.

#Forgive me Grouchy #Napoleon too #Especially Napoleon #Emmanuel de Grouchy #Napoleon Bonaparte #Strawberries #Waterloo

[elisabeth515]

Pronunciation of the marshalate

Firstly, I am very sorry that I did not do double checks before reposting content again. So, after some thoughts, I decided to make a better version of our own.

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Notes:

- All pronunciations of names are transcribed into English sounds (as much as possible)

- Since the [y] sound is absent in English, I decided to use the u-umlaut (ü) in German (and Mandarin Chinese pinyin) which was the closest to the “u” in French. The sound is the closest to “u” as in “pure” in English.

- the guttural “r” in French is going to be denoted with “hr”

- “an”, “on” and “in” are nasal sounds

- Please note that even native speakers disagree on some pronunciations

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Charles Pierre François Augereau (O-zher-hro)

Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (Ber-nah-dot)

Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Behr-ti-yer)

Jean-Baptiste Bessières (Be-si-ehr)

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (Brüne)

Louis-Nicolas Davout (Dah-voo)

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (Zhoohr-don)

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann (Ke-ler-mahn)

Jean Lannes (Lahn)

François Joseph Lebfevre (Le-fevhr)

André Masséna (Maa-sen-na)

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (Mon-sey)

Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier (Mohr-ti-yer)

Joachim-Napoléon Murat (Mü-hra)

Michel Ney (it’s between Neh and Nay)

for details, watch this clip of our ginger babe demanding soup (source: Jean-Roch Coignet TV série)

#SoupepourNey #SoupforNey

Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (Pe-hri-zhnon)

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (Se-hrü-hri-ehr)

Jean-de-Dieu Soult (Soo)

Claude Victor-Perrin (Vik-tor-Per-hran)

Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald (Mack-Don-nal)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (Mahr-mon)

Nicolas Charles Oudinot (Oo-di-no)

Louis-Gabriel Suchet (Sü-shay)

Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Goo-vi-on-Son-Seehr)

Józef Antoni Poniatowski (Pon-ee-ah-tov-ski)

Emmanuel de Grouchy (Ghroo-shee)

I hope I get everything right, also here I would like to thank @histoireettralala for helping me to make this post happen🙈

#this is for consolidating my own knowledge on French pronunciations as well Lol #literally tried to read every name out loud by myself when typing everything on it #still can’t pronounce my babey’s name (sob) #marshal babeys #marshal babies #napoleon’s marshals #featuring a ginger babey who needs soup #soupe pour Ney #soup for ney #michel ney #marshal bae #ginger babey #important post

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Propaganda:

"WHERE’S GROUCHY?!"

Levin August von Bennigsen

Propaganda:

“They are a GILF”

#napoleonic sexyman tournament