Why Napoleon Bonaparte Kept His Hand in Waistcoat? History Revealed & Brought To Life

► Young Napoleon Bonaparte, portrait painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804. For a more realistic viewing experience, the face has been improved and animated using Photoshop and AI techniques. ► Hello everyone and welcome back to Mystery Scoop The subject of today’s video is the painting by Ingres of young Napoleon as First Consul of France, dated 1804. But, before we go any further, we’d like to delve deeper into Napoleon’s curious and peculiar gesture of posing with his “hand in his waistcoat.“ What is Napoleon trying to convey with this gesture? Or is he simply resting his hand while maintaining a long posture? It appears that this hand gesture is not Napoleon’s invention and in fact goes all the way back to classical times in the 6th century BC, when Greek circles often considered speaking with both arms outside the cloak to be disrespectful. Most statues of Greek philosophers show this customary posture in which they addressed the people