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Napoleon Bonaparte was a little rough on women
Posted on 8/24/15 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 8/24/15 at 9:59 pm
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In fact, Napoleon did not like women very much. He was candid in his opinions: "We treat women too well and by doing so have spoilt everything. We have been very wrong indeed to raise them to our own level. The Orientals are much more intelligent and sensible making women slaves."
Men, he thought, should have several wives.
"What do most ladies have to complain of? Don't we acknowledge they have souls... They demand equality! Pure madness! Woman is our property.. just as the fruit tree belongs to the gardener."
Napoleon was also convinced of the "weakness of the female intellect". His brother Joseph, he complained, was "forever shut away with some woman reading Torquato Tasso and Aretino".
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A delegation begged Count Walewski to force Marie to "surrender herself for Poland. He did so and she went unwillingly to Napoleon's private apartments in Warsaw. There, he flung his watch on the floor and crushed it under his heel, saying that he would grind her people
into the dust if she did not succumb. Then he "swooped" on her like "an eagle on a dove". She fainted. So he raped the unconscious woman, merely noting that "she did not struggle overmuch".
Despite this inauspicious beginning, the affair lasted for three years and contemporaries maintained that the charming and devoted Marie was the only woman he ever really loved.
During his stay in Poland they lived together in Schloss Finckenstein and Napoleon called her his "Polish wife". The only problem was that, despite the fact that she had had one child by her seventy-year-old husband, Napoleon did not seem to be able to make her pregnant. But eventually, after he had returned to France, she sent word that she had had a son.
While there had always been some doubt over the paternity of Eleonore Denuelle's child, Napoleon believed that Marie's child was his. Marie's husband gave the child his name and as Count Alexandre Walewski, he rose to prominence under Napoleon III. However, Countess Walewska's "sacrifice" was seen to be in vain. Later, Napoleon made a treaty with the Czar, agreeing that the very words "Poland" and "Polish" be "obliterated not only from any transaction, but from history itself.
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Marie Louise was over twenty years Napoleon's junior. On the evening they first met, she
consented to go to bed with him. His behaviour was described at the time as "more rape than wooing", but Marie Louise did not seem to mind. In fact, afterwards "she asked me to do it again," Napoleon said in a celebrated quote.
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Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:01 pm to Bench McElroy
I bet he got his sandwiches on time though
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:02 pm to Bench McElroy
Well, to be fair, he was a little everything...
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:03 pm to Bench McElroy
His son was Dynamite.
Lucky!
Lucky!
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:04 pm to fr33manator
Take down his statues
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:07 pm to Bench McElroy
yea, he was a baller alright
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:10 pm to Bench McElroy
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Men, he thought, should have several wives
So his solution to women being a PITA, is to marry several of them? Doesn't sound very smart to me.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:26 pm to upgrayedd
All women hate each other and would be eternally competing for your attention. What does that mean for you? Sex and sandwiches, son, sex and sandwiches.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:28 pm to shinerfan
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Sex and sandwiches, son, sex and sandwiches.
I think the constant ambient sound of bitching all day everyday would negate such fruits.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:32 pm to Bench McElroy
Josephine treated him pretty badly and he was nuts about her.
I suspect that was a reaction to Josephine.
I suspect that was a reaction to Josephine.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:37 pm to fr33manator
He actually wasn't that small. Certainly not as small as he was remembered. I think he was 5'6 at time of death.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 10:56 pm to TotesMcGotes
He was definitely tall enough to coach at Bama.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 11:25 pm to shinerfan
Le main du pimp, n'est pas?
Posted on 8/25/15 at 12:12 am to TotesMcGotes
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He actually wasn't that small
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He was 5'6"
Walt that you?
Posted on 8/25/15 at 12:21 am to Bench McElroy
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"What do most ladies have to complain of? Don't we acknowledge they have souls... They demand equality! Pure madness!"
le triggered
Posted on 8/25/15 at 12:27 am to FLBooGoTigs1
He was average height for the time. The average Italian in 1915 was 5'3. People used to be much shorter.
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