Napoleoni loved telling stories. Not only had he told stories to the soldiers during the Egyptian expedition, he had written them himself as well. Clisson and Eugenie was written in 1795. The Jacobins he had supported had already fallen from power. Although Napoleon had escaped imprisonment, he had still sunk to the lowest point in his life. Besides writing novels, it was during that period that he discovered the less famous "Napoleon's Law."
In 1794, he had gone to Genoa and conducted a detailed investigation into attacking it. In fact, it was the Venetians who had historically signed an agreement with the French in hopes of obtaining half of Lombardy. And the French king who signed the treaty with the Venetians was not Charles VIII, but his successor, Louis XII, who had once been the Duke of Orleans.
Charles VIII's entry into Italy had alarmed the relevant nations. Milan, Austria, Venice, and the Papal States formed the Anti-French Coalition. When Charles died of illness in 1498, Louis XII inherited the throne, along with his plan to invade Italy.
In the same year that Louis XII signed a treaty with the Venetians and relinquished Gera d'Adda and Cremona along the Adda River, Genoa also declared its independence from Milan and accepted French protection.
Georgiana had not rushed to correct him while listening to his story. First, she genuinely knew little about that period of history. Second, she knew he disliked being corrected by someone as though they were his tutor.
More importantly, the Republic of Genoa had not been a powerful military state. That was why so many of its people had gone abroad to seek opportunities, such as Columbus, who had been a Genoese.
What truly allowed the Genoese to "rule Europe" was finance. After the Eighty Years' War against