
Episode 22: The Man of Bronze
The Age of Napoleon Podcast
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Barat's Commandant's Cloak
Some call for Barat to be made Commandant. He conquered in Thermador. Some think them of Citizen Bonaparte, unemployed artillery officer who took too long. A man of head being at the center of it, the whole matter gets vital. Swift to the camp of Séblanc to secure the artillery. There are not twenty men guarding it. It's thither in some minutes within time; La Peltier was also on the march that way. The cannon are ours,. and now beset this post, beset that, rapid infirm, rank around the sanctuary of the Tuilerie, a ring of steel discipline. Let every gunner have his match
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