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1797. July… August… September… Three months in which the French military steps in to protect the republic against its voters... Horatio Nelson loses his right arm in a disastrous failure for the Royal Navy… And the arch-manipulator Talleyrand becomes France’s latest foreign minister. This is episode 23 of the Napoleonic Quarterly – covering three months in which the French Revolution sells out – again.

[14:02] - Ruth Scurr on the Fructidor coup

[32:52] - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on Nelson's Tenerife disaster

[51:30] - Biancamaria Fontana on Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Featuring Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze pondering the likelihood of a French descent on Egypt in the intro and their assessment of the state of play in the episode's final ten minutes.