Napoleon Ii - Tumblr Posts
Even when I feel exhausted, I still want to make funny redraws of stock pictures because some memes simply have to be born!
At first, I wanted the child to represent Austrian empire as a whole, since Metternich and Schwarzenberg did so much to make it great once again, but then my fingers slipped… 😗🇦🇹
As a result, please, come here, caring someone, take smol Aiglon from this two crafty statesmen and make his life at least bearable! He deserves it after all that happened to him historically. 🤲
uhh yeah
school has me beaten and the only thing i could do to survive was dummy dum-dum "napoleonic" doodles over my homework of course
Even when I feel exhausted, I still want to make funny redraws of stock pictures cause some memes simply have to be born!
At first, I wanted this child to represent the Austrian empire as a whole, since Metternich and Schwarzenberg fought so hard to make it great once again, but then my fingers slipped… 😗🇦🇹
As a result, please, come here, caring someone, take smol Aiglon from this two crafty statesmen and make his life at least bearable! He deserves it after all that happened to him historically. 🤲
A dysfunctional austrian family
Hi! I recently saw my drawing of Klemens, Schwarzenberg and L'Aiglon on Twitter, and I thought it's been a while since that, so I saw myself forced to do an update :D
(the drawing itself)
(reference)
Grandpa’s gift
There is an incredibly fascinating artistic detail that haunts me after some person posted their astute observations on the Internet and I would love to share it with you!
So, we have this illustration from a book “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” by William Milligan Sloane (1896). Here we can see Napoleon visiting his son in a timeframe close to spring of 1813, when it became obvious that his larger political allies proved to be good for nothing and were probably going to leave him soon. Napoleon is shown deep in his thoughts holding a hand of his beloved son and looking at something far beyond our reach…
Or is he?
Speculations can be made that he actually has his attention on the toy soldiers present in a foreground of the picture.
While a cannon can be more than rightfully considered Napoleon’s own symbol, these toy soldiers do not represent any French troops. It’s possible to discern their tall hats but those are not bear hats of the Old guard, for sure.
They probably are the hats of Imperial (Austrian) grenadiers from the period of the Revolutionary wars. You can even notice red lining and cuffs being parts of their snowy-white coats.
Even if it was somewhat of a tradition to gift toy soldiers representing military units of relatively “old times”, an air of symbolism may also surround such a choice of troops. You know, that symbolism straight from those times when Imperial forces hadn’t yet suffered critical blows from the renewed French army and thought of themselves as fighters for truth and Habsburg’s justice.
So yeah. What a meaningful gift from a caring grandfather to his grandson it could be~ 🤭
(I’m also able to imagine how prince Schwarzenberg himself could have delivered this exact gift to Marie Louise, when he came to Paris as a diplomat once more and it literally gives me goose bumps. I love such small but significant imaginary plots with all my heart. ❤️)
I actually thought of this when I was new to the fandom before finding out Marie Louise existed lol
Dude