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Chapter 3 · 1799 to 1815

The Eagle's Shadow

A general takes the city, then the crown. The Law becomes a police state; the Revolution becomes a quarrel of royalists, old Jacobins and exiles who agree on one thing only.

Map
12 districts
Newspaper
The Courier of London
Street lighting
Oil lanterns

The levels

  1. Fog of Brumaire6 November 1799
  2. The Infernal Machine15 December 1800
  3. The Crown He Takes30 September 1804
  4. The Ghost General23 October 1812
  5. Armies at the Gate18 March 1814
  6. A Hundred Days5 February 1815
  7. Interlude 3
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The booklet opens

Prologue

One way “The Blade” can end

When Vérac's head fell, the men who had cut it off found that they did not agree on anything else. For five years the Republic was governed by committees of tired men, propped up by the army and robbed by contractors.

Otherwise

The Committee's terror had burned itself out, but nobody trusted anybody. For five years the Republic was governed by committees of tired men, propped up by the army and robbed by contractors.

Then a young general came back from Egypt, alone, and the tired men began to visit him at night.

This is the story of how the Revolution ended in a crown, and of the people who kept saying no in salons, cellars and foreign cities while the bells rang for victories.

The factions

The Revolution

Liberals
Lawyers, bankers' sons and salon philosophers who want a charter and a parliament. They hate violence and love speeches.
Old Jacobins
The men of the Year II, older now, who remember the clubs and the pikes. They want the Republic back, by force if need be.
Royalists
Chouans, émigrés' agents and plotters paid from London. They want the king back and do not mind how.
Exiled Writers
Banished pens in Geneva, London and the lake houses. They work through the city's opinion from far away.

The Law

Imperial Court
The Eagle, his family and the new nobility of titles and estates.
Grande Armée
The veterans of twenty campaigns. They love the Eagle while he wins.
Imperial Police
Commissioners, gendarmes and prefects: the first modern police in Europe.
Vaucorbeil's Cabinet
The minister's private files, his informants and his black cabinet that opens letters.
Bank of France
The new bank and the war contractors who lend to the treasury.

Neutral factions

The Church
Merchants
The licensed press
Smugglers
Foreign Powers
London, Vienna, Saint Petersburg and, in the end, the Allied Armies at the gates. Both sides court them.
The faubourgs

Characters

  • Octave Lamaury, the Eagle
  • Joseph Vaucorbeil
  • Georges Kerval
  • Germaine Dorval
  • General Mallery
  • Émile

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Epilogue

If the Revolution won A Hundred Days

The king came back a second time, older and more careful, with a charter in his pocket. The liberals got their parliament; the royalists got their revenge; the old Jacobins got nothing at all.

Otherwise

The Eagle kept his capital, and the Empire went on, smaller and more tired, governed by a police that knew every name in the city.

The oil lamps still swung on their ropes over the streets. In a few years the first gas pipes would be laid under the arcades of the Palais-Royal.