j'sais pas si je t'aime...

Dan O'Herlihy as Michel Ney ☆ Waterloo (1970)

Happy birthday doodle for smellington— I hope he enjoys NAPOLEON cake for his very not NAPOLEON THEMED BIRTHDAY

Because he HATESNAPOLEON

NAPOLÈON’S FAREWELL TO JOSÉPHINE

BY LOUIS MARIE BAADER

Bonaparte at Arcole, 1796, 1896 by M. Haider

"Napoleon arrived at the bridge at Arcole just as Augereau’s attempt to capture it had been beaten off. He ordered another attack, which stalled under heavy fire. Augereau then seized a flag and walked out fifteen paces in front of his skirmishers, saying, ‘Grenadiers, come and seek your colour.’ At that point Napoleon, surrounded by his aides-de-camp and bodyguard, grasped another flag and led the charge himself, haranguing the troops about their heroism at Lodi. For all his statements to the Directory two days earlier about not exposing himself to danger, he certainly did at Arcole. Yet it failed – the men displayed ‘extraordinary cowardice’ according to Sulkowski – and they didn’t rush the body-strewn bridge, although his aide-de-camp Colonel Muiron and others were killed on it at Napoleon’s side." [Robert's Napoleon: A life]

Le Maréchal Ney faisant le coup de feu by Victor Huen, 1910 (Marshal Ney giving the order to fire)