The Empire
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Over the winter of 1804 and 1805, Emperor Napoleon I knew that come the spring, he was going to have to march out to prove to the world that he deserved the imperial crown he had just bestowed upon himself. And when the inevitable War of the Third Coalition started […]
The Consulate
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So a funny thing happened on my way to the finish line. On Friday morning my hard drive crashed. I didn’t lose any files, but I did lose an incredibly necessary day of work while my computer was being fixed. As a consequence, I had to abandon the dream of […]
There Is Your Man
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we have somehow, amazingly, come to the end of the French Revolution. We’ve been at this together for 14 months, more than 50 episodes and over 250,000 words of transcript. But today, the Directory will be overthrown and Napoleon Bonaparte will come to power. There are lots of places […]