#someone make a doc ironing out the plot or timeline/j

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The Napoleonic era in fiction could make a series that goes on forever with all the interesting lives those historical figures led. Look, TV companies! Unlimited revenue!!!

Hijacking this post (by the way, it's lovely to see your enthusiasm for Davout!!!) with some scenes I'd love to see off the top of my head, at least for the hypothetical two seasons:

Interactions between Napoleon and Augustin Robespierre aka. Bonbon, and how that related to Naps' political trajectory

Napoleon arriving to the HQ of the Army of Italy and meeting Augereau, Masséna, and Sérurier for the first time; Augereau later confiding to Masséna that Naps frightened him (if that was Real History at all)

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas should at the very least be featured in Italy, if not deserving of a few episodes of his own or a mini-series himself. To remain relevant to Naps, Dumas' clashes with Naps and Berthier could be highlighted. Would be interesting to examine the Chevalier de Saint-George in early FRev as well.

Was going to say what about all the other armies of France?!?!?!?!?! but then I realised this was a Napoleon-centric TV series...

On future important figures: If working in a larger FRev-Napoleon scope, I would absolutely love to see episodes centred on the Nord and the Sambre et Meuse armies in their various configurations, because they were the ones slogging it out and winning accolades in early FRev while Naps was trying to establish himself via the Siege of Toulon. Later generals and marshals that there included Mortier, Macdonald, Murat (for a bit!) Oudinot, Lefebvre, Saint-Cyr, Bernadotte, Ney, Soult, Moreau, Desaix, etc.

Jourdan as commander of the Nord and the Sambre et Meuse!!!! Maybe he wasn't all-important but his successes perhaps helped secure some measure of French public confidence in the military? Would love to see him dodging disgrace and executions, coordinating the representatives and helping shape the army, and having Kleber as a reliable second in command after the latter is transferred from the Vendée. I'd like to see how he negotiates the Council of Five Hundred (possibly meeting Joseph Bonaparte?) and his reaction to Brumaire as well. -> Other relationships in the same time-space: budding trust and friendship between Bernadotte and Ney, camaraderie and rivalry between Desaix and Saint-Cyr (!!!) as they advance up the ranks (which throws Saint-Cyr's later loneliness into sharp relief). They have a whole subplot going on in my head. -> Scenes from Bernadotte's career as Minister of War, his involvement (or lack thereof) in Brumaire.

Fouché doing... *see Lyon*, the Thermadorian reaction, Barras in the Directory, Naps forming his Triumvirate with Cambacérès and Sieyès.

The Tumblr's own Napoleon movie

Okay, I don't usually post but at this point I'm so disappointed about Ridley Scott's Napoleon that I certainly think, the napoleonic fandom on Tumblr could make a historically more accurate film about the era. Who knows more about our beloved&hated historical figures or who is a bigger chaotic genius than the people of Tumblr? We should make our own movie as a protest. I mean, this was meant as a joke but seriously we should do it one day. Whether it's a historical drama, a comedy or even a musical - I think, even online, separately we could make a bigger blockbuster than that merde-dans-un-bas-de-soie. If there was a Napoleon 2002 (not the best one either), there should be a Napoleon 2023, too. I mean, a second one.