Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-12-06
Books mentioned on Part Three: Napoleon III: The Worst Bonaparte
Robert is joined by Matt Lieb for part three of our series on Napoleon III. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross is a historical non-fiction book that examines the reign and downfall of Maximilian I in Mexico during the nineteenth century.
Discussed“anyway to summarize the next part of his story what happens after he gets thrown in prison I'm going to turn to yet another book The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward shock Ross quote undeterred six years later while the prison was undergoing construction Louis Napoleon dressed in the clothes of a Workman picked up a wooden plank put”
Where to get it
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The Works of Victor Hugo: The history of a crime. Napoleon the Little
The Works of Victor Hugo: The history of a crime.
Discussed“writer and politician Victor Hugo pinned a series of vitriolic attacks on Louis Napoleon one titled Napoleon Le Petit exhorting the French to look at this hog wallowing in his own slime on a lion's skin”
Where to get it
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that outlines class struggle and the core tenets of communism.
Discussed“and this is you know that that Mark's quote history comes once as first as a tragedy and second as a farce yeah that he writes that about Louis Napoleon”
Where to get it
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The shadow emperor
Discussed“now is is gutless bone apart yeah um which is quite a nickname and I'm going to quote next from the book The Shadow Emperor it was a grim beginning for what was to prove a very Grim campaign under sweltering summer temperatures as dysentery typhus typhoid in a most deadly cholera epidemic ravaged the ranks”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Les Miserables
“yeah now you're never gonna get the sequel to Les Miserables yeah it sucks dude that that's the tragedy there's not going to be another role for Russell Crowe to sing in”
Own book After the Revolution
“also by Robert's book after The Revolution yes did I do the plugs yeah”
Own book After the Revolution
“also by Robert's book After The Revolution”