Listener Tim O’Dwyer from Australia, who describes himself as “an old Aussie lawyer (who believes he could do a good plea of guilty for Prince Talleyrand)”, recently visited France and Israel with his wife and submitted some Napoleonis snaps from his visits to Malmaison and Jaffa. See more in the Napoleon 101 Flickr group. Thanks Tim!
I just thought I’d give a plug for the other show David and I are doing - The Biography Show - which has a new episode up about Helen Of Troy. Did she really exist? Or is completely fictional? Find out our thoughts on the show!
By the way, I was prompted to write this by a nice email I just got out of the blue from a guy at Apple telling me he’s a big fan of the new show! When a guy working on iTunes tells you he likes you show, it’s got to count for something!
I know it’s been a while between drinks, my friends, but there are good reasons. Listen to today’s show to learn more!
Today we finally… FINALLY… get Napoleon on “the boat”!
David walks us through Napoleon’s last days in France and his reasons for choosing to surrender himself to the British instead of making a run for the United States.
(Chateau la Malmaison - by Cameron Reilly)
(David in Napoleon’s bed chamber, Aix)
(Napoleon surrendering to Maitland, from the collection of J. David Markham)
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This show is based on David’s book “Napoleon For Dummies”. Click on the image below to purchase a copy!
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The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes! The music at the end of today’s show is Marche de la Garde à Waterloo. You can find it, along with many other Napoleonic tunes, on this site. Thanks to Ben for the link!
My thanks to Brian who, in the comments of a recent post mentioned there was a mange comic about Napoleon by HASEGAWA TETSUYA. I did some research and found an online store selling them.
I’ve found a site that discussed the comic which I’ve translated for your reading pleasure here.
Let me start off by apologizing for my audio - it seems I had the wrong microphone on. Luckily I’m just the button pusher so the impact is small. 
In today’s episode, David explains the range of options Napoleon considered after his abdication of 22 June, 1815. Should he go to England, Russia, Austria or the United States?
Don’t forget to check out our new podcast The Biography Show on TPN where you will hear us talk about the lives of people such as Alexander The Great and King Hammurabi of Babylon.
(image is from a new comic about Napoleon inspired by this podcast and conceived by listener Per Ove Sleen from Norway!)
AUDIO:
This show is based on David’s book “Napoleon For Dummies”. Click on the image below to purchase a copy!
WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE PODCAST
Buy something from our selection of official Napoleon 101 podcast shirts and coffee mugs!
Go into iTunes and vote for the show and leave a comment about how much you enjoy it. CLICK HERE to open up our page in the iTunes store.
You can join our Facebook discussion group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support and for all of the terrific comments we get every week!
If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed:
The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes! The music at the end of today’s show is Marche de la Garde à Waterloo. You can find it, along with many other Napoleonic tunes, on this site. Thanks to Ben for the link!
Some of the places I’m visiting (and staying) on my trip to Paris in July. If you want to open it in Google Maps, use this link.
I’m moving house at the moment and as part of the process, I’m documenting my library of books using an online tool called Shelfari.com. It also gives me an opportunity to create discussion groups around books and so I’ve created one around my Napoleonic collection (link). I think it might be an interesting tool for all of us to review Napoleonic books we’ve read. Please feel free to join and submit reviews of books you’ve enjoyed! I’ve only added one from my collection so far (David’s “Dummies” book, of course) but will be adding the rest over the next few days.
Well, not quite, but listener Arni Sigurdsson from Iceland found this website which explains how Napoleon was important to the development of the modern computer. According to the site:
Napoleon’s troops in Egypt buy shawls and start a fashion craze.
In Europe the shawls get made on automated, perforated-paper control looms.
This gives an American engineer Herman Hollerith the idea to automate calculation using punch cards.
Which get used to control ENIAC, the first electronic computer!
Thanks for the link Arni, fascinating!
Somehow we managed to get another entire episode just out of Joseph Fouche, Minister of Police, Duke of Otranto, and his machinations after Napoleon’s abdication to try to ensure his own position of power in post-Napoleonic France. We also talk about what’s happening during this period of instability with Marshals Ney, Davout and Murat. Napoleon, although the topic of much discussion, is, in this episode, almost a minor character.
AUDIO ONLY:
This show is based on David’s book “Napoleon For Dummies”. Click on the image below to purchase a copy!
WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE PODCAST
Buy something from our selection of official Napoleon 101 podcast shirts and coffee mugs!
Go into iTunes and vote for the show and leave a comment about how much you enjoy it. CLICK HERE to open up our page in the iTunes store.
You can join our Facebook discussion group by clicking this link –> Napoleon 101 Facebook Group.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support and for all of the terrific comments we get every week!
If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed:
The theme music is La Marseillaise. Yes, we know it isn’t necessarily relevant to Napoleon but it’s hard to beat when it comes to French themes! The music at the end of today’s show is Marche de la Garde à Waterloo. You can find it, along with many other Napoleonic tunes, on this site. Thanks to Ben for the link!
Well as you know, David and I have been threatening to inflict another podcast series on you for a while and I’m happy to announce that one of them is finally here!
And it isn’t the one we were expecting to launch first.
Introducing - The Biography Show.
The idea behind The Biography Show is to examine the lives of some of history’s most influential people. We kick off the series with a 90 minute talk about the life of Alexander III of Macedon, otherwise known as Alexander “The Great”.
We still intend on doing a Napoleon-type series on Caesar sometime this year but we’re both waiting for our schedules to clear up a little.
