Napoleon
Summary
Although Ridley Scott’sNapoleonmainly focus on the ill-famed emperor ’s relationship with his first wife Josephine , the movie does touch on his second marriage toArchduchess Marie Louise ( Anna Mawn ) – without explaining what happened to her after his exile . As is divulge in the movie , Marie Louise gave nascency to a son followingNapoleon and Josephine ’s legal separation , seemingly resolving the issue of imperial succession that had proved so problematic for the original couple . However , while she is a peripheral mien inNapoleon , the tangible Marie Louise had her own fascinating story .
As is hinted at on screen , Marie Louise ’s kinship with Napoleon was a complicated one . The pair were married by procurator in Austria in 1810 , with Marie Louise ’s uncle stand in Napoleon ’s place ( a not uncommon practice session at the time ) . As a event , Marie Louise became both Empress of the French and the Queen of Italy . historic accounts let on that she was far more reserved than Josephine – a personality trait that now and again cause stress in her family relationship with Napoleon . However , while her writing corroborate genuine affection between the yoke , their marriage was complicated by Napoleon ’s first deportation to Elba .
Ridley Scott ’s Napoleon spotlight the titular theme ’s animation . From military campaigns to personal tidbits , we break down the biopic ’s ending .
Marie Louise Became Duchess Of Several Countries After Napoleon’s Exile
Upon Napoleon ’s initial abdication of the Gallic throne in 1814 at Fontainebleau , Marie Louise was in an understandably clumsy post . She had initially leave Paris at Napoleon ’s asking after the emperor moth declared , " I would choose to screw that they [ the Empress and the King of Rome ] are both at the bottom of the Seine rather than in the hand of the alien " ( Sophie Cohondet Durand , Napoleon and Marie - Louise ( 1800–1814 ): A Memoir ) . However , follow the Treaty of Fontainebleau , she was permitted to keep her imperial rank .
Beyond this , however , Marie Louise was actually given rulership over the duchies of Parma , Piacenza , and Guastalla . Although this arrangement was later on revise at the Congress of Vienna to forbid her son from inheriting the title , it nonetheless cemented Marie Louise ’s standing following Napoleon ’s first exile . However , while such prestigious titles were obviously noteworthy , they were not the only important development in Marie Louise ’s liveliness .
Marie Louise Remarried After Napoleon’s Death
When Napoleon exit into exile on Elba , Marie Louise commence a human relationship with Count Adam Albert von Neipperg . Originally , Neipperg had been dispatched to foreclose Marie Louise from reunify with her husband on the island . However , despite disapproval from both the Gallic and Austrian side , the brace soon became lovers .
Ridley Scott ’s take on the towering ( even if in name only ) Napoleon is amazingly suspect , often tedious , & full of battles that do n’t skimp on gore .
Although Napoleon briefly returned in 1815 , his defeat at Waterloo , expat to Saint Helena , and eventual death in May 1821 go away Marie Louise free to tie Neipperg – which she did three months after the emperor ’s passing . However , her remarriage was complicate by the fact that the pair were of unequal social rank , forcing them to get hitched with morganatically . what is more , she and Neipperg had already had two illegitimate children before 1821 , which ended up damaging Marie Louise ’s relationship withher preexist son , Napoleon II . Neipperg himself died in 1829 , reportedly leaving Marie Louise heartbroken .
When Marie Louise Died
Even after Neipperg ’s death , Marie Louise witness herself embroil in several historically important episodes . In 1831 , she was at the marrow of the so - telephone Carbonari rebellion in Parma against Grand Chamberlain Werklein who was in billing of the administration of the region . Werklein was replaced two days later after the Austrians were forced to send in troop by the French emigré Charles - René de Bombelles . Unlike her experience with Werklein , Marie Louise and Bombelles immediately run into it off . Just six calendar month after his arrival in 1833 , the pair were married – remaining so until Marie Louise ’s death in 1847 .
The contingent of Marie Louise ’s death are sleep with from contemporary account statement . author state that she became ill on December 9th , before suddenly deteriorating and passing aside on December 17th , 1847 . The cause of death was determined to be pleurisy . Her body was take from Italy back to Vienna , where it was interred in the Imperial Crypt . GivenNapoleon ’s necessarily circumscribed focus , it ’s intelligible that the movie skimmed past much of Marie Louise ’s backstory . However , there ’s no doubt that , beyond her human relationship with the emperor , she lived a engrossing life of her own .
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