Napoleon - Age of the Lion - Vol. 6 Ch. 38

[MangaDex]

 

[proulout]

If you're curious about the nickname bourrienne is using, it's back in chapter 6, page 12

 

[WeabooExtract]

I'll try to make a habit of writing these... No promises.

As I've written in the previous chapter, this is a lead up to the 13 Vendémiaire royalist coup attempt. Since I don't want to spoil too much, I'll keep shut about the coup itself.

This manga hasn't touched much on Vendée, but the events here are somewhat connected. Since the beginning of the Revolution, there has been a strong Catholic resistance to the new government. This was mostly due to anti-clerical and atheist views of the revolutionaries, which alienated the conservative peasantry, clergy and parts of nobility.

By the time of this chapter, the Vendée uprising was mostly quashed, but the British were still supporting royalist forces in France by sending detachments of émigrés to the Continent.

A desant of British and émigré troops off the coast of Vendée caused an uprising in a part of Paris early in Vendémiaire (25 September). The Convention only acted on the 4 October (12 Vendémiaire) but the cautious attempts at subduing the royalists failed, and the uprising spread to other parts of Paris. It was only then, that the Convention turned to Barras for leadership. This is where the chapter ends.

The other story of this chapter is fluff about Marquis de Sade. This subplot is actually mostly inaccurate to reality, as de Sade's (in)famous novels did not come out in 1795. The only work of note from that year was Philosophy in the Bedroom, which argued that the Revolution can only survive, if it embraces tha libertine and atheist worldview that de Sade promoted. He was also not released from prison until October of that year, so it's impossible for his work to cause of the uprising.

EDIT: Moreover, Juliette was published in 1799, four years from the time of the uprising, and Saint-Just has been dead since the Thermidor (back in 1794). I don't know why the author is showing him alive.

 

[Doomroar]

And now the real money is on fake news, and escapism!

Then again, that level of depravity was kind of its own fake news and escapism

 

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Thanks @WeabooExtract , I came in trying to post questions about sade and the other stuff. Man this is some crazy shit (to research or maybe its easier to embellish ) to even have the writer/mangaka to include. Good stuff anyway but still good to know if there are errors or whatnot.

 

[SystematicChaos]

I'll try to make a habit of writing these... No promises.

As I've written in the previous chapter, this is a lead up to the 13 Vendémiaire royalist coup attempt. Since I don't want to spoil too much, I'll keep shut about the coup itself.

This manga hasn't touched much on Vendée, but the events here are somewhat connected. Since the beginning of the Revolution, there has been a strong Catholic resistance to the new government. This was mostly due to anti-clerical and atheist views of the revolutionaries, which alienated the conservative peasantry, clergy and parts of nobility.

By the time of this chapter, the Vendée uprising was mostly quashed, but the British were still supporting royalist forces in France by sending detachments of émigrés to the Continent.

A desant of British and émigré troops off the coast of Vendée caused an uprising in a part of Paris early in Vendémiaire (25 September). The Convention only acted on the 4 October (12 Vendémiaire) but the cautious attempts at subduing the royalists failed, and the uprising spread to other parts of Paris. It was only then, that the Convention turned to Barras for leadership. This is where the chapter ends.

The other story of this chapter is fluff about Marquis de Sade. This subplot is actually mostly inaccurate to reality, as de Sade's (in)famous novels did not come out in 1795. The only work of note from that year was Philosophy in the Bedroom, which argued that the Revolution can only survive, if it embraces tha libertine and atheist worldview that de Sade promoted. He was also not released from prison until October of that year, so it's impossible for his work to cause of the uprising.

EDIT: Moreover, Juliette was published in 1799, four years from the time of the uprising, and Saint-Just has been dead since the Thermidor (back in 1794). I don't know why the author is showing him alive.

The author takes a lot of creative liberties, because at the end of the day his goal is to write an interesting story more so than to stay accurate to history. His barely-obscured political beliefs also tend to influence what he focuses on. The "Grande Armee Battle Report" sections at the backs of some chapters will often give more historically accurate information (at least as best as he researched it) and will occasionally even point out when historical facts differ from the manga.

Spoiler

For example, in the manga the Battle of the Nile takes place right after the conquest of Alexandria, and before the Battle of the Pyramids, to create dramatic tension in the Orient Campaign, but the corresponding Grande Armee Battle Report acknowledges that historically the Battle of the Nile happened after the Battle of the Pyramids, a full month after the landing at Alexandria.

 

[WeabooExtract]

The author takes a lot of creative liberties, because at the end of the day his goal is to write an interesting story more so than to stay accurate to history. His barely-obscured political beliefs also tend to influence what he focuses on. The "Grande Armee Battle Report" sections at the backs of some chapters will often give more historically accurate information (at least as best as he researched it) and will occasionally even point out when historical facts differ from the manga.

Yeah, I mostly wanted to provide context that wasn't present in the manga, but I get that it's creative liberties. Like, Vendée is wholly irrelevant to Napoleon's personal journey, so it doesn't appear much. Although I am interested in where this series will take Saint-Just.