Like Gatling guns, organ guns were too heavy and had to be mounted on wheels or set up in fixed positions. They were well suited for defending narrow places against massed enemy charges, such as bridgeheads.
But unlike Gatling guns, organ guns had to be manually reloaded barrel by barrel after firing a volley. Georgiana had no interest whatsoever in improving such a thing. She wished it would disappear from the world entirely.
Once Captain Jean Pino, who was in charge of guarding the bridgehead, learned why Georgiana had come, he naturally did not refuse to lend her the place. However, he believed she had a better option: going to the Royal Porcelain Factory.
Nearly every resident of Sèvres had someone working at the porcelain factory, but she felt it was Bernadotte's territory. It was only after Davout sent word that the townspeople and British representatives were already waiting for her there that she turned back.
Bernadotte had been promoted to the Western Army in June, when rumors claimed the British were about to land. Later, it turned out to be nothing more than Royalist unrest.
Not long afterward, he had been recalled from the west and made an insignificant member of the Council of State. Then he had been assigned to deal with matters at the porcelain factory.
The Sèvres Porcelain Factory was reserved exclusively for the royal household. Its office building had been constructed like a palace, looking exceptionally splendid and magnificent.
Two liver-red vases stood at the entrance, each taller than a person. Yet they held no flowers, serving only as useless decorations.
Georgiana had no way of knowing why Napoleon was tormenting Bernadotte so much. In any case, Bernadotte had not come to see her. The one assigned to guide her was the factory's original director,