{"id":675,"date":"2005-11-07T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=675"},"modified":"2005-11-07T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T13:14:00","slug":"napoleon-watch-your-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon: watch your ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 19th-century diairist, Frances Williams Wynn, is today getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/diariesofaladyofquality.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/napoleon-on-board-northumberland.html\">an officer of the Marines H.M.S. Northumberland Aug. 5, 1815<\/a>, taking Napoleon to St Helena.<\/p>\n<p>It has some lovely intimate insights into Napoleon the man:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Napoleon gets very sulky if he is not treated with that deference and respect to which he is accustomed: his own followers treat him with the same respect as if he was still emperor.<br \/>\nBeattie, my captain, was at Acre: Napoleon learnt this in conversation; seemed quite pleased, caught hold of his ear and gave it a good pinch (which is his custom when pleased), and seems to have taken a great liking to him.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI have dined three times with Napoleon. I cannot say I think his manners have much of that elegance which might have been expected from a person of his ci-devant rank. He has a particularly disagreeable grunt when he does not understand what you say, and desires a repetition.<br \/>\nHe converses freely, but not at table, with the Frenchmen, and takes no more notice of the ladies than if they were a hundred miles off. I have not heard him speak once to Madame Bertrand at table, and seldom elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had some idea that he was always supposed to have been something of a &#8220;ladies&#8217; man&#8221; &#8211; but perhaps not at this stage of his life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/napoleon\" rel=\"tag\">Napoleon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/history\" rel=\"tag\">History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 19th-century diairist, Frances Williams Wynn, is today getting a an officer of the Marines H.M.S. Northumberland Aug. 5, 1815, taking Napoleon to St Helena. It has some lovely intimate insights into Napoleon the man: Napoleon gets very sulky if he is not treated with that deference and respect to which he is accustomed: his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}