Pedro, l’amant

— 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒚.

— 𝑷𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕, 𝑳𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒚, 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍.

— 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏, 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆.

books i read in 2021: the silence of the girls by pat barker

What will they make of us, the people of those unimaginably distant times? One thing I do know: they won’t want the brutal reality of conquest and slavery. They won’t want to be told about the massacres of men and boys, the enslavement of women and girls. They won’t want to know we were living in a rape camp. No, they’ll go for something altogether softer. A love story, perhaps? I just hope they manage to work out who the lovers were.

Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.