1802. July… August… September… Three months in which Napoleon Bonaparte outmanoeuvres France’s Senate to move even closer to absolute power… In St Petersburg Russia’s new Tsar seems to have got over the distressing circumstances of his predecessor’s murder… And on both sides of the English Channel the Peace of Amiens is starting to look more than a little shaky. This is episode 43 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months in which France moves closer to what many fear looks, feels, smells… like monarchy.

[08:30 - Headline developments]

[17:55] - Philip Dwyer on Bonaparte being made Consul For Life

[44:50] - Elise Wirtschafter on Tsar Alexander I’s first 18 months in power

[1:11:50] - Graeme Callister on the fraying Piece of Amiens as tensions grow between Britain and France once again.

Plus professorial panellists Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze offer their own perspectives on this three months of history.

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