#general junot

When future Junot meets Bonaparte &

When the Emperor meets young Junot.

I never used tumblr before and literally had no idea that there are so many amazing napoleonic wars fanart here.

From an anecdote by Napoleon Junot in Les Boudoirs de Paris about his father’s affair with an English aristocrat:

“But she (‘Lady Maria C.’) did not understand any more than he did how he found himself in possession of the letter intended for his general (Napoleon). She rang the bell and ordered the servant who served her to report to her of the manner in which he had carried out his commission.

— "I delivered the letter to this citizen,” said the servant. “He can certify it. When I arrived at the Frères Provençaux, I asked where General Bonaparte was dining. I was led by the boy to the door of a cabinet where the citizen present here was with two others. I remembered that Madame had told me: here is a letter without address; you will give it to the man who appears to you to be the leader of the others. I found three citizens, one of whom had a thin and yellow face; I said to myself: this is not this one; the other was so ugly and had such a bad appearance that I didn't look at it for two minutes; but when I saw the tall blond citizen, I said to myself: there is my man. I hope that I demonstrated sagacity, and that the citizen is happy with me."

My father couldn't help but laugh at the honor his good looks had earned him. Lady Maria dismissed the intelligent servant, and we are led to believe that she easily consoled herself for the mistake which had brought to her house the tall and well-built captain, whose merits she had already been able to appreciate, in place of the thin and yellow general of whom she had been given such an unattractive portrait, because it had been broad daylight since a long time when my father left the house on rue du Mont-Blanc.”

From Laure Junot’s Souvenirs d’une ambassade et d’un séjour en Espagne et en Portugal:

“One day, while speaking of the Princess of Brazil, I learned, in the midst of the wildest laughter, that the Princess had been for a moment seduced by the beautiful appearance of the Ambassador of France (Junot), and that an appointment had been made for him in a quinta near Pedrosa, belonging to the widowed princess, as she was called in Lisbon!”

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“Junot was not only a very handsome man, having a noble and handsome bearing; but he pleased by that energetic and entirely martial expression which I have seen only in Kléber and in himself. It was evident that he was brave without knowing his name; his glance had the fire of his soul, and all that was lofty and generous in his good and loyal heart was revealed by his eyes, as expressive as they were full of wit and feeling.”

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“[Junot had a] beautiful voice of command, so sonorous and clear”

From Ida Saint-Elme in Mémoires d’une contemporaine:

“A writing master would have envied his pen, and a fencing master his fine bearing under arms. He was marvelous in a salon, a little straight, a little tense, showing off with some affectation his height, his leg, those natural and brilliant advantages that were only rivaled in the army by the Count of Pajol, his rival in bravery and loyalty.”

From Souvenirs militaires de Victor Dupuy chef d’escadrons de Hussards:

“Eight or nine years before, at the camp of Boulogne, I had seen the beautiful General Junot, who, in face, figure, and bearing, surpassed all the officers of the army!”

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 by Archibald Alison:

I had to gradually increase the canvas size to fit that goofy ahh feathered hat

uncolored sketch under the cut