#diva fr

Daendels had already in 1809 requested his resignation from King Lodewijk for reasons of health; but this was not granted to him at that time, and since he had not repeated his request, there was something offensive in it that it was granted to him a year and a half later. Napoleon really seems to have come under the influence of the many enemies of Daendels, who brought about his downfall.

(...) It would soon become apparent that the recall of Daendels had been a mistake; at least the administration of his successor was one of the saddest of which the history of our Indian possessions has recorded.

Whether Napoleon wanted to make up for the injustice done to him to some extent; or whether he wanted to act solely in the interests of the colonies, without any regard for persons, and without detracting from Daendels' merits, the French Emperor appointed him Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

The next few post from here would come from the same book that I thought are kinda mid but it turns out to be an absolute cinema imo. Partially bcs it's kinda biased abt Daendels but hey I'm into that. Anyway, idk why they ignore Daendels request like they thought he was pranking them or smth 😒 Did they rlly take Daendels sentence "I will sacrifice my life for the emperor" srsly? Wtf. Again, it's sad to see that Napoleon believes others more than Daendels himself, at least hear him out first. But I guess it's kinda a good thing bcs then finally Daendels request got heard even if when through a bad way.

This is the first time I heard abt Janssens performance in the Indies being the worst lol. I mean it's true tho. Well, at least Napoleon kinda feel bad for stripping Daendels marshal title away that he decided to give him the grand officer of legion the honour 😬 Thank god he did that or else I'll be more pissed at him smh. Js today I learned that the legion of honour had rankings in it and apparently Daendels got the highest one so yipee, although I kinda wish Napoleon kept his marshal title (perhaps Daendels entering the Marshal empire 👀 That can be a good AU lowkey)