#taine

[mintaikkcorpse]

OH MY GOD IM WATCHING THE NEW TADC EPISODE AND I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS BLUETOOTH SHIPBAIT IM SO HAPPY

[empirearchives]

So the historian Hippolyte Taine did not like Napoleon’s mother:

“His mother, Laetitia Ramolini, from whom, in character and in will, he derived much more than from his father, is a primitive soul on which Civilization has taken no hold. She is simple, all of a piece, unsuited to the refinements, charms, and graces of a worldly life; indifferent to comforts, without literary culture, as parsimonious as any peasant woman, but as energetic as the leader of a band.”

According to Patrice Gueniffey, he also called her “slovenly”, which pissed off one of Napoleon’s nieces, Mathilde, who banned him from her literary salon because he randomly insulted her dead grandmother.

[septentrrional]

Si evident si niste death metal de la Taine

[deszczowedni]

smoke fast be weed

[blackks0ul]

"E frig și rece, am nevoie de căldură, ca de-o îmbrățișare caldă când sufletu-mi tremură."

aZr- Taine|Amurg de noapte

[livesunique]

Taine, Design for a Temple d'Eau  

Pen and black ink and watercolor, 27.20 x 42.10 cm

[celestialsolitudestar]

I don’t have a clever quote here. But here’s Aiacos and a baby Taine! 

@metuereofnoctis

[empirearchives]

Madame de Staël:

Source: The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5