Napoleon Bonaparte and the Malet Coup

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In 1812, while France’s Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was on a military campaign in Russia, he learned of trouble back home: General Claude-François de Malet and several co-conspirators had tried to take control of Paris and the government. Part of their plan centered around telling people that Napoleon had died - except, of course, he hadn’t. Learn all about the attempted coup from Christine in this episode.

​Host: Christine

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Further Reading​
Marc Allégret, "Malet, Claude-François de (1754-1812), general, initiator of the conspiracy against Napoleon (1812)," Fondation Napoleon, (2004).

Steven Englund, Napoleon: A Political Life, Harvard University Press, (2004).

J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon, Mariner Books, (2002, first published 1963).

"Hulin, Pierre Augustin-Legion of Honor", Archives Nationales.

Louis-Joseph Marchand, In Napoleon’s Shadow: The Memoirs of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor, 1811-1821, Greenhill Books, (2018).

The Memoirs of Queen Hortense , Jean Hanoteau (ed.), Arthur K. Griggs (trans.), vol II, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, (1927).

Munro Price, Napoleon: The End of Glory, Oxford University Press, (2014).

Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life, Viking, (2014).

“Thierry Lentz: Four Questions on the 1812 Malet Affair”, Fondation Napoleon, (2012).

Isser Woloch, Napoleon and his Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship, Norton, (2001).

​Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth, William Collins, (2018).
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This episode is part of our Revolutionary France Series.

​​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)