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teasencies apply 18 plus. Welcome to the age of Napoleon. Episode 12

Long live the fatherland. Thanks for joining me.

When we left off last time, Napoleon had just been commissioned as an officer,

second lieutenant in the L'Afer artillery regiment.

He was living in Valence, in southern France, where the regiment was headquartered.

A beautiful but sleepy provincial town on the Rhone River near the foothills of the Alps. Napoleon was only 16, but he already had adult responsibilities.

His father, Carlo Bonaparte, had just died at the age of just 38.

The young lieutenant was his family's main

breadwinner and sharing the duties of head of household with his older brother

Joseph. These were hard frustrating years for Napoleon. All of that time he spent with his head buried in books about the great man of history had given him a lot of big romantic ideas about military glory and political power. He was ambitious. He'd spent his entire

youth training to become an officer in dreaming about the possibilities of an army career.

He had rushed to get his commission as fast as possible.

Now that he'd finally achieved his goal, the reality turned out to be a lot more

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