What modern invention do you think would Napoleon II like/love? 👀
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- antibiotics to cure his tuberculosis 💀
- phone calls and FaceTime so he could chat with his friends when they’re away in different countries without running the risk of letters being read by the secret police
- military strategy video games
- going to the cinema. He went to the theatre nearly every day so I think he’d like movies too! I think he would watch Kingdom of Heaven and cry the whole time from finding Baldwin too relatable
- rollercoasters. He liked going on the early 19th century version of rollercoasters with his uncles and so I think he would also enjoy the modern iteration although he would probably throw up
- chatting with people from different countries on social media. He loved Poland so I think he would make friends with Polish people on social media and then become internet besties with his brother Alexander Walewski
- The James Webb Space Telescope. He enjoyed studying astronomy and so I think he’d be really intrigued by all the modern developments in our understanding of space!
- collectible items. Out of boredom he collected stuff like walking sticks and handkerchiefs, and so I think in modern day he would get drawn into overconsumption and buy lots of collectible stuff. I think he would be too classy for labubu type overconsumption but would buy hundreds of collectible military figurines
- cigarettes 🚬. Unfortunately despite having lung disease he smoked like most young men in the 1830s did 😭 But although smoking a pipe was seen as normal it wasn’t really as chic as smoking cigarettes became in the 20th century, so I think that in a time period after cigarettes replaced pipes he would be smoking 24/7 for the glamorous aesthetic 😭
