♕york♕and history...and other things.

Jennifer Downton Abbey brought me here. Under construction, but I need a place to express my love for les maréchaux.

[napoleondidthat]

How did Josephine feel when Napoleon returned from exile?

Not much.

She was dead.

[histoireettralala]

A tall, slender fellow, with flashing eyes, hot-tempered, full of energy, Lannes is paradoxically sensitive to human distress and strives to do good around him. Sick on the battlefields: “I fear war, the first rumor of war makes me shiver. Men are dazed to better be led to war”, he is famous for the excess of language with which he showers his officers. If he is feared by his staff, he is patient, understanding and always masters himself to speak to his soldiers who adore him.

Jean-Claude Banc - Dictionnaire des maréchaux de Napoléon

[dirtyhistoryconfessions]

[frit-oignons]

Murat just chillin’

[joachimnapoleon]

Parisian street art of Jean Lannes.

(Via La Grande Armee of Memes & Francophile Themes on Facebook)

[bougredane]

If anyone in Paris wants to go have a look at this, its at the corner of the rue de l’Estrapade and the rue Clotilde (between the Pantheon and Henri IV). On one of those electrical (?) boxes :

There’s a whole bunch of them just around there (don’t know where all of them are, but its surprisingly gratifying to « discover » a new one !)

[unkindness313]

Napoleon giving his best Bacall and fingering some balls

[generalsamhouston-deactivated20]

don’t ever get emotionally attached to dramatic historical figures with a flair for letter writing and great hair because you will regret it every time

[adelardd]

ᴊᴇᴀɴ ʟᴀɴɴᴇs, 1sᴛ ᴅᴜᴋᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴍᴏɴᴛᴇʙᴇʟʟᴏ, ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ᴏꜰ sɪᴇᴡɪᴇʀᴢ

[coriandercoriander]

the new astrology is the french revolutionary calendar 

reblog w whatever agricultural thing corresponds to your birthday

[beverlycrushr]

Northanger Abbey (2007) dir. Jon Jones

[joachimnapoleon]

Ceremonial uniform of Marshal Lannes.

(Credit: La Musée de l’Armée on FB)

[colaismywater]

Just to make that clear,

am I the only one who has the urge to watch Austenland at 2am?

[thosebrightstars]

Sidney and James stealing glances at Charlotte during the cricket match.

Good luck, Mr. Stringer, not that you’ll need it.

Good luck to you, too, Mr. Parker, although I imagine you don’t think you’ll need it.

[gardensofwhimsy]

*Me during any and all “peak romance/sexual tension” ballroom scenes 

*Me drooling over waistcoats and cravats

*Me in my thirties an unmarried spinster because modern men are just bleh…

[christophernolan]

#it’s about the yearning and the tension

EMMA 2020 | SANDITON 2019

[mushi-and-junior]

period moodboards: Regency Era

in church he takes his seat among the rows, pays to the place the reverence he owes, likes best the prayers whose meaning least he knows

[littlegirlinvisible]

We have had the time of our lives, now the page is turned the stories we will write. It’s hard to walk away from the best of days, but if it has to end I’m glad you have been my friend in the time of our lives.