Napoleon commits suicide

Will he could have see it like how the Romans,Japanese and nazis and many cultures saw it . It's better to die by your sword then the enemies

They had different ways of seeing it. Apparently it was seen as good for a Roman man to stab his daughter to death so he didn't marry a man (not being raped or turned into a concubine, but a man's actual wife), while the Japanese kinda-sorta made up their long tradition of suicidal devotion and had to hide from the public that their sons were being used as projectiles, while for the Nazis you have Hitler and another's publically condemning a German mayor and his wife for killing themselves when the Western Allies approached. Though Napoleon did really go for Roman things, so their romantic image of accepting suicide might be kept with him longer. He apparently tried some... "Other" Classical pursuits. He did not enjoy it.
 
I would never have believe this in the slightest if it was only a rumour, but it does seem to be supported.
I always thought that suicidal tendencies were not found in natural born leaders.

Well it depends on the personality type. I studied a lot of psychology and it doesn't really surprise me. He was very driven and controlling. Almost obsessive compulsive. I think that in his mind he couldn't tolerate having his life ruled by others. You see that in cases with psychopaths and narcissists. Rather than bow to another, control your life even if you are ending it.

I have seen at least one historian pointing out that he was driven during those early parts of his time as Emperor and would have succeeded if he had just take a breather and talked. He didn't stop because he almost couldn't. The same was said about Alexander the great. If he hadn't died when he did, it would have been some other campaign.

The second time he was captured he had been exiled and humbled already. I think he was a little cooler emotionally and willing to accept life in exile. If I recall he was trying to escape to America to become some type of scientist.
 
The Duke of Reichstadt was known as Franz during his time in Vienna, as that was the only one of his names he didn't inherit from his father's family (it was from his maternal grandfather). He was brought up as a good little Hapsburg and was showing some interest in a military career (he'd just been appointed to command of an Austrian battalion when he died). It's possible that if he survives, stays a loyal Hapsburg and shows no interest in the antics of the Bonapartists in France, that he is allowed to inherit the Duchy of Parma when his mother dies in 1847 (it was originally given to her for life only) - a similar trajectory to Napoleon's adopted son Eugene in fact, who settled down to a life as minor Bavarian nobility and produced a rather successful dynasty. The really interesting question would be if Reichstadt is allowed to marry, and if so who.

What about his cousin, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies? Or his other cousin, Princess Januária of Brazil?
 
The Duke of Reichstadt was known as Franz during his time in Vienna, as that was the only one of his names he didn't inherit from his father's family (it was from his maternal grandfather). He was brought up as a good little Hapsburg and was showing some interest in a military career (he'd just been appointed to command of an Austrian battalion when he died). It's possible that if he survives, stays a loyal Hapsburg and shows no interest in the antics of the Bonapartists in France, that he is allowed to inherit the Duchy of Parma when his mother dies in 1847 (it was originally given to her for life only) - a similar trajectory to Napoleon's adopted son Eugene in fact, who settled down to a life as minor Bavarian nobility and produced a rather successful dynasty. The really interesting question would be if Reichstadt is allowed to marry, and if so who.

I don't know...

Napoleon II said:
If Josephine had been my mother, my father would not have been buried at Saint Helena, and I should not be at Vienna. My mother is kind but weak; she was not the wife my father deserved.
 
Sounds like confusion with Charles Bonaparte, the ornithologist...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte


According to Wikipedia, on 29 June 1815 the near approach of the Prussians, who had orders to seize him, dead or alive, caused him [Napoleon] to retire westwards toward Rochefort, whence he hoped to reach the United States. The presence of blockading Royal Navy warships under Vice Admiral Henry Hotham with orders to prevent his escape forestalled this plan.
 
To you have a source for this? That's interesting stuff.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/02/10/384778237/what-if-napoleon-had-come-to-america

"For me, idleness would be the cruelest torture. Without armies or an empire I see only science as influencing my spirit."

Not really surprising that he had an interest in science, he started as an artillery officer, and they had to be good at Math. Not only math when you think of it, but applied math in random and fluid situations.
 
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