Napoleon Didn't Take Power. France Voted To Give It To Him.
The French Revolution didn't end in tyranny. It invented a new kind.
History calls Napoleon a genius. That story isn't wrong — it's just incomplete. The real engine wasn't genius. It was architecture. Ballot boxes surrounded by bayonets. Referendums written before the votes were cast. Prefects in …
Napoleon Didn't Take Power. France Voted To Give It To Him.
The French Revolution didn't end in tyranny. It invented a new kind.
History calls Napoleon a genius. That story isn't wrong — it's just incomplete. The real engine wasn't genius. It was architecture. Ballot boxes surrounded by bayonets. Referendums written before the votes were cast. Prefects in …
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Marx, 1852 — Reference points #7
Audiobook of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx, published 1852. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
Article on it: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-14/marx-18th-brumaire
On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis…
Maiden Lane
London United Kingdom Maiden Lane - a "country dance" from John Playford's English Dancing Master, 1651.
The dance and its melody is thought to be named after Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, and it is just one of a great number of dances called for London places.
Situated between the Covent Garden …
The Last Napoleonic Coup: Napoleon III's power grab
Napoleon III was in equal parts implausible, hapless and ambitious. But in 1848 he finally succeeded in achieving his long-held ambition of taking power in France. In the second instalment of our exploration of Napoleon III's life, we explore how he bounced back from his second failed coup, seized …
From Bonapartism to Trumpism: Unpacking the Root Causes of the Global Far Right
Why do political movements that promise to restore a purified "people" against corrupt elites and internal enemies recur with such relentless regularity in modern history? In this episode, we trace the deep historical and structural roots of today's global far-right wave. Our guide is the comprehen…
Maiden Lane
London, United Kingdom. Maiden Lane - a "country dance" from John Playford's English Dancing Master, 1651.
The dance and its melody is thought to be named after Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, and it is just one of a great number of dances called for London places.
Situated between the Covent Garde…
Maiden Lane
London, United Kingdom. Maiden Lane - a "country dance" from John Playford's English Dancing Master, 1651.
The dance and its melody is thought to be named after Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, and it is just one of a great number of dances called for London places.
Situated between the Covent Garde…
Napoleon III: France's Last Emperor with Edward Shawcross | Ancient to Recent | Episode 72
As a child he saw his uncles empire collapse, as a young man he was consumed by dreams of glory and as an adult he turned those dreams into reality.
This is the story of Louis Napoleon, the last Emperor of France.
A story of intrigue and delusion, of ambition and deceit of honour and shame as a ma…
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