Remembering the Eaglet's birthday with the best drawing I did about him, he deserves to be safe and happy with his daddy🩷
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Remembering the Eaglet's birthday with the best drawing I did about him, he deserves to be safe and happy with his daddy🩷

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Attila (Aiglon) Sassy (1880-1967), 'Opium Dreams', ''A Ház'', 1909
From the 'Opium Dreams' series by Attila Sassy (1880 - 1967)
Some recent photos of Switzerland and France around the holiday season
hello! do you know what ML's relationship was like with her son? it seems they were distant, but i was wondering if it was more complex than that.
Hi and thanks for the Ask! I'm probably not the best person to answer as I've only read up on Marie Louise in passing. But maybe somebody else will be able to add more to the bit I have to offer.
First of all, I take it that with "her son" you mean little Napoleon Franz, King of Rome-turned Duke of Reichstadt. I understand Marie Louise had two more sons from Adam Neipperg (only one of them reached adulthood though). The answer to your question will depend a lot on who you ask, as there is a long standing tradition especially in France to put all the blame on Marie Louise.
Were Marie Louise and the Duke of Reichstadt close? No, surely not, but from what I have read it was also not that cold and distanced relationship that Marie Louise is often accused of. Mostly, it's an interesting detail that in Paris she seems to have been kept deliberately at a distance: The boy's governess, Madame de Montesquiou, "Maman Quiou", took precedence over the empress in the child's rooms. (I understand that was one cause for the state of constant warfare between Madame de Montesquiou and the Duchess de Montebello Louise Lannes.) When Marie Louise wanted to see her son, she had to ask for permission.
I'm not quite sure what to make of "Maman Quiou", frankly. I have come across some journals by Dietrichstein and other future tutors of the Duke of Reichstadt who do not treat her kindly. But considering the animosity between French and Austrian court, that is to be expected.
In her letters to Napoleon, Marie Louise almost always talks about their son (or, as Napoleon put it "my son"). It seems she also regularly wrote to others about him and claimed to miss him dearly, so she cannot have been utterly indifferent. But she was an empress, and as such she had a job to do and was often away from the baby. Not as often as Napoleon, but quite some time.
But of course it was only after the Vienna Congress that relations with her child became truly estranged. After the Hundred Days, in 1816, Marie Louise left her five-year-old son in Vienna, in order to rule over the Duchy of Parma. She has been - rightfully - blamed for it. But to be fair: she actually took possession of Parma in order to secure it for her son. It was only in 1817 when the powers decided that the Duke of Reichstadt would not inherit and that the throne of Parma would fall to another branch of the Bourbons. Who merited another throne because... because... Anyway.
Besides their correspondence, Marie Louise returned to Vienna to visit her son several times: 1818, 1823, 1826, 1828, 1830 and 1832. That's not much, as maternal affection goes, but I believe little Franz still saw his mother more often than Napoleon Bonaparte had seen his after he had been sent to France? I have not checked, though.
Thank you for the Ask!, and please, if everybody has something to add (and I know there's a couple of folks out there who know much more about the matter than I do) feel free to do so!

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La Mode illustrée, no. 46, 18 novembre 1900, Paris. Costume de patinage. Modèle de la Maison Choque et Collignon, rue Auber, 16. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
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Portraits of the King of Rome by Isabey and Prud’hon (bottom).
The army takes an oath to the Emperor after the distribution of eagle standards on 5 December 1804, by Jacques-Louis David, 1810
What is it with Napoleon and eagles? Napoleon’s troops carried an eagle standard into battle; his son was nicknamed the eaglet; Napoleon’s return to France in 1815 was called the flight of the eagle. For a look at how the eagle became a symbol of Napoleonic France, and what those Napoleon eagle standards were all about, see “Why is Napoleon associated with eagles?”