Napoleonic Era - Blog Posts

I haven't posted here anything for a while...

˚₊·—̳͟͞͞♡ Chibi Józef Poniatowski !!

I drew another drawing of my fav marshal !!

Józef Poniatowski

hello! this is my first post, I will post art on this account...

I drew Napoleon's Marshal, Józef Antonii Poniatowski, which is my fav marshal.

he is so fun to draw too!

Fixating on a specific part of history is really fun and all, but it has left me with incurable trust issues regarding popularized quotes and facts from historical periods I'm not well versed in. Digging beneath the surface and looking at primary sources makes you realize how much bs is being regarded as (non-academic) mainstream knowledge. And all because some historian from the victorian era will straight-up have pulled a claim out of their ass or taken Mr. Petty McLiar at face value, whose memoirs were written 20 years after the actual events and contain so much bias and misinformation to be classified as fiction

Primadonna Soult Animatic

A complete satirical cesspool of history, myth, fandom, and possibly Marshal Soult.

I feel bad to bother by tagging, but just a quick thanks to @josefavomjaaga and @cadmusfly simply for making their Soult posts bc that’s where I got a very good chunk of inspiration & info to make this silly thing

Why are all the medical staff from this time period hot?

I’ve only seen a few but still. None of them look even remotely ugly

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Warning, unserious oc lore-drop incoming

(This is very much still a wip, so stuff might change in the future, probably when I have more time to do research lol)

Most of the story takes place during the empire

+ some of the more important side characters

In short, they're all messy people who are effed up in their own unique ways, trying to do what they think is best (and making everything worse instead)

Feel free to ask questions about them!! (there is nothing I enjoy more than yapping about my ocs)

first snow 1812

The urge to dwelve into the rich history, delight in interpreting sources, and try to represent the past as accurately as possible

vs.

The urge to draw old men yaoi

Look at me painting Larrey again

I thought I'd dedicate him a more ambitious piece since he's one of my favorite historical characters and genuinely almost inspired me to become a doctor lol

The price of food, clothing and other stuff during the Consulate and the Empire

Source : forum des Grenadies à pied de la Garde du Consul

Food:

Coffee (per pound): 8 francs

Sugar (per pound): 5 to 6 francs

A piece of venison: 5 francs

Chocolate sweets (per pound): 2 francs

Six oranges: 1.50 francs

One eel: 1 franc

Meat from butcher's shop (per pound): 70 cents

Butter (per kilo): 2 francs

Meat (beef, veal or mutton, per kilo): 70 cents

Bacon (per kilo): 80 cents

Bread (1st quality, per kilo): 30 cents

Bread (2nd quality, per kilo): 19 cents

Bread (rye, per kilo): 11 cents 2/3

Cheese (decaliter): 2.85 francs

Rye (decaliter): 1.90 francs

Butter (per kilo): 1.60 to 2.20 francs (1807)

Cheese: 0.60 to 1.80 francs

Eggs (per dozen): 0.45 to 0.70 francs

Poultry: 0.20 to 0.40 francs (in 1800)

Rabbit: 1.25 francs

Hare: 2.40 francs

Salted sardines (per dozen): 0.80 franc

Herrings (dozen): 0.80 franc

Eel: 1 to 3 francs

Small fishes (per dozen): 0.30 franc

Pike: 2 to 4 francs

Walnut oil (per kilo): 2.40 francs

Sugar (per kilo): 4 francs

Beans (per decaliter): 3 francs (in 1814)

Prunes (per decaliter): 1.40 francs (in 1814)

Drinks:

Ordinary red or white wine (per bottle): 1.97 to 2.96 francs

Champagne and fine wines (per bottle): 3.06 to 6.91 francs

Extra-fine liqueur wines (per half-bottle): 7.90 to 9.87 francs

“La chenette” or migraine: 2.50 francs

White wines: 3 francs

Chambertin: 5 francs

Clos Vougeot: 6 francs

Fine white wines: 8 francs

Vin du Cap : 10 francs

Vermoutte: 10 francs

Extra-fine liqueur wines: 13 francs

Regular Beaune wine: 2 francs

Extra-fine red wines: 18 francs

Livestock :

Horse: 150 francs

Cow : 60 francs

Heifer : 40 francs

Mule : 360 francs

Lamb: 8 francs

Bullock: 400 to 600 francs

Cow: 250 francs

Pig: 100 francs

Calf: 70 francs

Ram: 50 francs

Clothes:

Men's shirt: 3.75 francs (in 1814)

Cotton stockings (per pair): 6 francs (in 1800)

Clogs (pair): 1.20 francs

Shoes (pair): 5 francs (in 1805)

Boots (pair): 18 francs (in 1801)

Pair of sheets: 30 francs

Shirt: 8 francs

One pair of stockings: 4.75 francs

Lighting and heating :

Lamp oil (per kilo): 2.31 francs

Candles (per kilo): 2.33 francs

Wood (per stere): 14 francs (in 1807)

Charcoal (per 100 kilograms): 10 francs (in 1814)

Entertainment:

Admission to the Tivoli (drinks plus show): 3 francs

Also at the Tivoli, a garden party: dances, entertainment, shows, fireworks: 2.20 francs

Hameau de Chantilly (concert, illuminations, games, dances): 1 to 1.50 francs, including 0.75 francs for consumption.

Also at the Hameau de Chantilly, large decadal festivities: 2 francs

French theater :

Lodges: 6.60 francs

Galleries: 1.80 francs

Mardi gras ball 1801 at the Opéra: 2 francs

Other items:

Tea towel: 1 franc (in 1814)

Tobacco (per kilo): 4 francs

Soap (per kilo): 1.70 francs

They are so cute

young naps

Forgot to post this, but I recently remembered one of the monuments erected 1899 to commemorate the two battles of Zürich

there's a poem on the back, thought I'd give an English translation

How our town suffered a hundred years ago, When the stranger fought with the stranger, When bullets rang through the silent forest, The columns of fire smoked, Flags waved, The father tells the son and he then admonishes the grandson: Boy become a man! Even if those old wounds healed, Don't forget how our mothers suffered; The enemy's army devoured the children's bread, The misery was great, immense was the hardship! If the city is never to experience such suffering, The coming generation must rally: Keep watch and hold the defense, To protect Swiss borders, Swiss honour!

Even though the city itself remained pretty much unharmed, the poem makes reference to the uh- abundantly-practiced act of looting that took place in order to feed the armies

Stop guys I want to make something for pride month, but my exams are killing me, pretend I drew Napoleon and Wellington getting it on or something

I'm not touching twitter with a ten foot pole

My mental health exponentially decayed every time I opened that site

why has the napoleon fandom been dead here why are you all on twitter now

Sketch dump before my personal waterloo (my final exams)

Ach Jomini

sideburns as in 19th century, not as in weird uncle that should probably be on some kind of watch list

mmh drunken affection

stupid oc comic i had forgotten about

don't call the frenchman english

Anyway, his name is Étienne Benoît (de) Kerdrel, and he's from a minor breton noble family (although he did relinquish his titles during the revolution), so very much french

shitposting once more

Hi! I saw that you wanted to see the old Napoleonic confession blog, an I wanted to tell you that there's a new one that I made!

@napoconfessions

If you ever wanted to try that out

*runs away as fast as I can*

thank you for the news!!

Glad the freak gets to be resumed🫡

I had a vision

Should I draw Masséna in this

Quick Jomini drawing

I can never form an opinion on the guy

What's funny to me is how swiss he looks.

like, he looks. so incredibly swiss. it's insane

was gifted this print of french naval uniforms throughout history

and i accidentally drew some guy while using it as reference trying to practice

(he's based on 14. capitaine de vaisseau (1808))

guysss where is the napoleonic confessions blog???

I was finally excited to have an actual active account to repost the absolute madness on there, and now it's just gone??

more egyptian campaign shenanigans: The Junot/Lanusse duel

maybe I'll turn the entire thing into a comic one day when I have more time

text is from the translation of Laure's memoirs

larreyyyy