#bonapartism

[ot-alsace]

Marshal Augereau who participated in the Battle of Eylau

[josephponiatowski]

One more thing,

I made this video quickly during school (I should be studying biology but it’s too boring for me)

I drawed this on my phone… oh god drawing on phones with fingers is so hard 😫

🔊 TURN VOLUME ON BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CAPTIONS

WHY ARE YOU ALL SO IN LOVE WITH NAPOLEON I DON’T GET IT PLEASE EXPLAIN 😭

[boneyagainsttheworld]

⸙⟡𖤓 𝐴 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𖤓⟡⸙

[battlestariroh]

Napoleon, calling himself “Emperor of the French” instead of “Emperor of France” to make it clear it’s all about the people:

[Leslie Knope winking & saying “I’m not like a regular mom; I’m a cool mom!]

[empirearchives]

Victor Hugo’s speech in support of Napoleon, and his support to lift the ban on the Bonaparte family

(Left: Victor Hugo, Right: Elderly Jérôme Bonaparte)

Excerpt from Jonathan Beecher, Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848

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Hugo was fascinated by the Praslin affair and wrote about it at length in his journals. But he was more deeply engaged by another issue brought to the Chamber of Peers in June, 1847 – the petition of Napoleon’s only surviving brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, who sought the repeal of the law exiling members of the Bonaparte family. “I declare without hesitation,” Hugo told the peers. “I am on the side of exiles and proscrits.”

Не obviously could not know that he himself was to spend almost two decades in exile. But one exile who mattered to Hugo in 1847 was the first Napoleon. In his speech to the Chamber of Peers Hugo contrasted the pettiness and corruption of the July Monarchy with the grandeur of Napoleon’s Empire:

As for me, in witnessing the collapse of conscience, the reign of money, the spread of corruption, the taking of the highest places by people with the lowest passions, (Prolonged reaction) in witnessing the woes of the present time, I dream of the great deeds of the past, and I am now and then tempted to say to the Chamber, to the press, to all of France: “Wait, let us talk a little of the Emperor. That will do us good!” (Intense and profound agreement).

After this speech, the elderly Jérôme Bonaparte personally thanked Hugo; and his daughter, the Princess Mathilde, invited him to dinner. Hugo was now regarded in some quarters as a Bonapartist.

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[Italics in original]

“La Famille Bonaparte,” OC Politique, Laffont, 138-139.

[lovegodsmashtyrants]

Bonapartist Gang

[joachimnapoleon]

21 September 1822--Execution of the Sergeants of La Rochelle

[Bories, Raoulx, Goubin, and Pommier]

While garrisoned in Paris in 1821, a charismatic young sergeant-major named Jean-François Bories was initiated into the Carbonari, a secretive, Italian-based sect which stood in opposition to the Bourbons in both France and Italy. (I’ve written a bit more about them here.) Bories was a veteran of Waterloo and a firm Bonapartist. He set about recruiting and initiating a number of his fellow soldiers of the 45th Line Regiment into the group, including sergeants Jean-Joseph Pommier, Marius-Claude Raoulx, and Charles Goubin. The 45th was soon transferred to La Rochelle, and within months the Bonapartist conspirators were uncovered. Among the ensuing arrests were Bories, Pommier, Raoulx,and Goubin. They were tried for being members of the Carbonari and plotting to overthrow Louis XVIII. None of the men admitted to anything; nevertheless, they were sentenced to death, and guillotined in the Place de Grève on 21 September 1822. Bories was 27 years old; Pommier, 25; Raoulx, 24, and Goubin only 20. They became a source of inspiration for Bonapartists in France and the Carbonari in both France and Italy.

[Engraving of the four La Rochelle sergeants moments being led to the guillotine]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Understanding gov’t overturns in North Africa: What is imperialism’s role?

In early April, longstanding governments were toppled by protest movements and military coups in the North African countries of Algeria and Sudan

By John Parker & Greg Butterfield 

As events in North Africa continue to rapidly unfold, it is crucial for anti-war and anti-imperialist activists in the U.S. and Europe to expose the past and current crimes of the imperialists, and be vigilant to oppose any moves by the ruling classes here to further intervene through military force, sanctions, seizure of resources and other means that deepen the oppression of the region’s peoples.