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Why do pictures of Napoleon show him with his hand in his coat.?
I once heard that his coat contained a locket with a painted portrait of his late fiance... However, it also may be because of his stomach ulcers, or it may be a gentleman like pose of that era... What do you think?
There is some debate as to the reason why Napoleon had his hand in his coat in most paintings, the reason that most scholars agree on is that it was simply the style of the time. There are thousands of paintings of notable people with this gesture. During the 1700s and early 1800s it was the gesture that mostly military personal and aristocrats chose, there is even a painting of George Washington with his hand in his coat.
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Gentlemen occupation during the Regency/Victorian era?
What did gentlemen do to make money during this era? I mean, in those historical romance novels, the gentlemen don't seem to have a job at all!! So how do they get their money? For example, Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice was rich....but didn't appear to have a job. The same goes for Mr. Rochestor in Jane Eyre!
So, how did these gentlemen get their money? Or, what kind of jobs did men have during those era?
Mr Rochester and Mr Darcy were land owners and would have obtained their income from rents from land - usually from tenant farmers. Much money was inherited and gentlemen lived on 'trust funds', i.e. income from capital they couldn't touch as it was to be kept for future generations. There are many instances of stories where the hero is concerned that he will not get his inheritance - he has to keep an aged Aunt happy, for example - think Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Ernest'. There is literature showing that this kind of parasitic lifestyle went on, at least until the 1920s and 1930s - think the Jeeves and Wooster series and all the idle layabouts in those book inhabiting 'The Drones Club' (the very name being chosen to indicate males who had no useful job in society)
Part of the problem was a class thing. 'Gentlemen' didn't work - at least not in 'trade' which was anything to do with manufacturing, selling etc. This did cause a problem for large families. Often the money would not stretch to maintain several sons. The eldest would get the 'trust fund' - see above, and the younger ones would go into the Army or Navy (probably buying a commission), the Church (many C of E priests in the 19th century weren't really interested in the cure of souls in their parish but in things like collecting butterflies or birds eggs) or the Law. Many younger sons also went into the service of the Empire - in India, for example, and many died young from contracting trpoical diseases.
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