Napoleon Bonaparte Part 2: What Comes Up, Must Come Down | 45
Even The Royals
Wondery
4.4 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This two part series is all about Napoleon Bonaparte, the scrappy outsider who just wanted to belong. In part one, Napoleon worked hard to prove himself in the French army after he was booted out of his homeland of Corsica. He used his brilliant mind to rise through the ranks and help the revolutionaries secure an independent France. But after a disastrous military campaign in Egypt, he returns to France to find all of his hard work undone. Now, Napoleon has a new mission – achieving political power – and he won’t quit until he reaches the top.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:04.1 | Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.9 | A quick note about our show. |
| 0:09.7 | We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class. |
| 0:14.1 | So there are some details and scenes that are dramatized. |
| 0:17.2 | And also, today's episode contains discussions of suicide and some expletives. |
| 0:21.7 | Please be advised. |
| 0:30.1 | It's late October, 1799, in Paris. |
| 0:34.1 | 30-year-old Napoleon is pacing up and down in his office. |
| 0:43.3 | He recently returned home, after spending the past year fighting a failing war in Aker in Egypt. When he came back, he was given a hero's welcome by thousands of Parisians. |
| 0:47.3 | But that's mainly because he only published good news about his campaign. |
| 0:51.3 | I mean, the man definitely understands the value of good PR. Now, Napoleon neglected to report about his campaign. I mean, the man definitely understands the value of good PR. Now, Napoleon |
| 0:56.1 | neglected to report about his failures, or even the fact that he didn't tell his colonels he was |
| 1:01.3 | leaving Egypt. Pulled an old Erescia leaving a party. Yeah, you invented the Irish goodbye. That's what |
| 1:07.5 | everyone says. I know. I know. Now, one of the members of the directory, |
| 1:12.1 | which is the five men who run France, wants to arrest Napoleon for deserting his post. |
| 1:17.6 | He backed down after he realized the French people would riot on behalf of their beloved military |
| 1:22.7 | leader. But in Napoleon's mind, he had to come back. France needs him. |
| 1:28.3 | While he was gone, France lost a lot of foreign territory that he worked hard to gain. |
| 1:33.4 | Now they're vulnerable to an attack. |
| 1:35.3 | Okay, but hold on. |
| 1:36.7 | Do they need him? |
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