| Tango01 | 18 Oct 2019 10:26 p.m. PST |
"They say that you can't choose your family, and Napoleon knew that more than most. Throughout his lifetime his many siblings fought amongst themselves and him. They were greedy, grasping, but fiercely loyal if anyone from the outside attacked them. Of all his siblings, who he placed on the thrones of Europe as his puppet monarchs, his favorite sibling and in some ways the most notorious was his sister Pauline…."
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| MaggieC70 | 19 Oct 2019 4:11 a.m. PST |
Oh, Good Lord! Wikipedia enlivened by an excess of gushing. |
| mghFond | 19 Oct 2019 7:47 a.m. PST |
I enjoyed the article. So you don't think it's true, MaggieC70?
I had no idea Napoleon even had a sister so it was something different for me to read. |
| Tango01 | 19 Oct 2019 11:32 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)
Pauline was THE SISTER for Napoleon….
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| MaggieC70 | 19 Oct 2019 11:44 a.m. PST |
The article was even lighter than History Lite. And fine for folks who don't know about the Bonaparte siblings. But you would be wise not to take it entirely at face value, and read other accounts if you're interested in the subject. The only things generally said about Pauline concern her affairs and her alleged promiscuity. The truth is a bit less "steamy" than this National Inquirer/Daily Mail approach. The absolute worst allegation about Pauline is that she and Napoleon had an incestuous relationship, an allegation beloved of certain malicious and uneducated British and American scribblers. There is, of course, no truth whatever to that bit of nonsense. |
| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2019 3:55 p.m. PST |
Do you really beleived that?…
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| MaggieC70 | 20 Oct 2019 5:11 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2019 11:29 p.m. PST |
That Napoleon had sex with his sister…. Amicalement
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| MaggieC70 | 21 Oct 2019 2:16 a.m. PST |
Absolutely not. That's why I said above: "The absolute worst allegation about Pauline is that she and Napoleon had an incestuous relationship, an allegation beloved of certain malicious and uneducated British and American scribblers. There is, of course, no truth whatever to that bit of nonsense." |
| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2019 12:12 p.m. PST |
Ah!… ok now. (smile) Amicalement
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| Brechtel198 | 22 Oct 2019 3:50 a.m. PST |
The author used Wikipedia as a source which is a non-starter. I agree with Maggie completely. |
| Brechtel198 | 22 Oct 2019 3:52 a.m. PST |
I had no idea Napoleon even had a sister so it was something different for me to read. There were three if I recall correctly. One, Caroline, married Murat and betrayed Napoleon; one ruled in Tuscany, Elisa, and proved herself an able administrator, and the other was Pauline who stayed loyal to Napoleon. When they were squabbling among each other, over details of the coronation in 1804 (such as not wanting to carry Josephine's train), Napoleon became fed up with their nonsense and remarked to them, 'One would think, to hear you, that I had just despoiled you of the heritage of our late father the king.' Then the ladies promptly shutup. The pope was easier to contend with than Napoleon's brothers and sisters. |
| Tango01 | 22 Oct 2019 11:39 a.m. PST |
Imho… Caroline was a real witch… (smile)
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| Brechtel198 | 24 Oct 2019 6:31 a.m. PST |
Caroline also, along with her husband Murat, betrayed her brother and along with that, tried to fight Eugene in northern Italy in 1814. |
| MaggieC70 | 24 Oct 2019 11:57 a.m. PST |
While I admit Napoleon made colossal blunders by inciting the Peninsular Wars and invading Russia, he also did himself no good at all trying to make silk purses out of the sows' ears that were his siblings. |
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