In the memoirs of Napoleon’s stepdaughter Hortense, she said Wellington wanted to see her. When he came over, he bragged that his government had persisted in ignoring the right of Napoleon to rule France. He didn’t put it like that but that’s what he said.
She asked him for help in requesting that his government honor the terms of the treaty they had signed and the next day, people came by warning her that the puppet government of France was about to take everything from her and all the Bonapartes. So that’s a first hand account of Wellington.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeJCvClnhzjhu6DBWeAaxo7YgP2mJ5Qyh
Another account is that Wellington kept a giant naked statue of Napoleon by his door so his guests could disgrace it by putting their hats and such on it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0uVZO59bYyQL3QSJUhdfsASPFBRHoRtY
This was Wellington’s attitude towards a liberator who stood up for the rights of non nobles to enjoy the good things in life too,
The movie Waterloo portrays Napoleon as sick during that famous battle. I hear this all over in unreliable sources but the memoirs do not mention it. Napoleon’s valet Marchand would have mentioned it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeJCvClnhzjjHB-AXcyVDXvQ3EwtcKU-Y
On another note, I think Napoleon was far more appealing and masculine than Rod Steiger. Even in that era, Napoleon had women constantly throwing themselves at him. You can say it was his power but Napoleon’s allure was far beyond what one sees in that movie. Despite this, Waterloo is one of the more fair movies to the Emperor.
