Napoleon's Nephew: The Lover of Coups | TMT 156
Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500
Alex Pearlman
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🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Alex does a deep dive on French emperor Napoleon III and the lessons he teachers us. From his message of "Make France Great Again," to his many coup attempts, to finally getting elected the president of France on the backs of a massive Propaganda campaign. And once he became president he decided he wasn't going to be held back by term limits and made himself the emperor for life.
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0:00 Intro - History Repeats Itself first as Tragedy then as Farce
2:09 - Who Loved Coups more than anyone else?
17:26 - Italian Secret Societies and the First Coup
33:35 - Napoleon III invades France for the first time.
46:49 - Financing a Second Coup and hiring his Basket of Deplorables
1:01:32 - Imprisoned, the Escape, and Elected President of France
1:16:37 - Removing Term Limits, Arresting the Opposition, Declaring Himself Emperor for Life
1:28:54 - Invading Mexico, Vietnam and Algeria
1:32:55 - How the Franco Prussian War Ended Him
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| 0:00.0 | History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. A very famous man said that, and we'll tell you who said that deeper in the episode. But I'm going to tell you who he said it about. He said it about the subject of today's episode, Napoleon the third. Do you know who that is? No. No, because you're thinking about Napoleon the first. I'm talking about Napoleon the third, his nephew who just loved cooing. Oh, that's right. He loved a coup. Here I go cooing again. That's Napoleon the third and this is a podcast a podcast called |
| 0:29.6 | Here I go cooing again. Remember to smile |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome to Too Many Tabs a podcast where a husband and wife duo sit next to each other at a table. And you're probably watching this full of Thanksgiving dinner. I hope you have sweatpants on. I hope you have all of your leftovers. Yeah, this is a gobbler. This is gobbler moment. People don't know what goblers are. Well, there's a gobbler that people can make at home. |
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| 1:17.3 | But Mrs. P. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes. |
| 1:18.4 | Usually this is a show where one of us does research and then they lure dump all over the other. |
| 1:23.1 | Yes. |
| 1:23.4 | But as we said, this episode is coming out after Thanksgiving, which means we recorded it before Thanksgiving, which meant you. |
| 1:28.2 | Which means I had no time. |
| 1:29.3 | None at whatsoever. She's had no time. There's hundreds and hundreds of deviled eggs to be made. I know, 100%. I grew the sweet potatoes. She really did. So you could create the sweet potato casserole. It's a lot of work's gone into this. Which is crazy because I actually was listening to the radio and they're like, |
| 1:43.6 | sweet potato prices are through the roof. |
| 1:45.5 | I said, not my house. |
| 1:46.6 | We got dirt sweet potatoes right from the PA dirt. But what I wanted to say is I did the research on the episode this week. And it's a history episode. And it's a throwback. Okay. Because a thing happened earlier this year. And I started looking around. I went, huh, huh, it feels like coup season. Oh, coup season. Yeah. And so I looked into history. I said, who loved coups more than anyone else? The president. No, not the current president. Oh, okay. He does love a coup. Loves a coup. But the thing is, is there's this thing in history where history likes to repeat itself. There's actually a very famous philosopher said history repeats itself first as a tragedy, then as a farce. Yeah. And that philosopher was Carl Marx. Oh, no. And he was talking about this exact man that I did my research on. |
| 2:34.5 | Oh, really? |
| 2:35.0 | Napoleon the third. Okay. Now, I know what you're immediately thinking. I don't know there was three of them. Yeah, there were three Napoleons. There's a guy with a hand in the shirt. Yep, that's one. That's Napoleon one. That's a big guy. That's O.G. Then his son was Napoleon two. Okay. |
| 2:49.5 | And then there was Napoleon 3, which is his nephew. |
| 2:53.1 | Okay. |
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