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‘I am satisfied with Alexander and he ought to be satisfied with me,’ Napoleon wrote to the Empress Josephine in 1807. ‘If he were a woman, I think I would make him my mistress.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n03/greg-afinogenov/the-tsar-in-tears
The london review of books goes on to describe this as condescending. There’s a few paintings of them open mouth kissing 😗
Men used to be a lot cooler
I feel like some Yoai shouldn’t be encouraged.
You could not possibly be more wrong.
Angry Talleyrand noises
So much for the Talleyrand left.





