Recaps

Georgiana prepared to defend France against a planned wizard attack while navigating her uncertain relationship with Napoleon and competing British and French demands. The arc left her in Sèvres with a British Auror assigned to protect her and Lenormand warning that she could no longer remain absolutely fair.

• Georgiana confronted Destaing over his conduct in Egypt, then watched him duel Reynier after Napoleon intervened.
• Georgiana joined Napoleon in a passionate reunion, then sheltered Maria Lenormand, who warned her of an attack planned for February 17 and called her Madam Sèvres.
• Georgiana recruited Rabastan Lestrange and French pure-blood wizards to help restore the Ministry of Magic and defend against rebels.
• Georgiana found a suspected tunnel near the Bois de Boulogne and ordered Régnier to send men inside and seal it while others handled the forest threat.
• Georgiana sponsored Fresnel’s lighthouse research and had students copy a threshing machine so farmers could learn how to use it.
• Georgiana rejected Josephine’s offer to help her leave in exchange for dealing with Grassini, then heard British proposals to make her Queen Regent and Dermide King of France.
• Georgiana refused to persuade Napoleon to accept Britain’s peace terms and urged him to keep resisting, while he ordered her to press the British envoys to accept a condition and keep the two Mysore princes’ situation secret.
• Georgiana sought Lenormand’s advice in Sèvres, and Lufu Durumen revealed herself as an Auror sent by the British Ministry of Magic to protect her.

Georgiana tried to steer Napoleon’s government toward relief, industry, and political compromise while resisting his control over her and confronting the Ministry of Magic’s disorder. The Concordat was approved, Josephine left to find a wife for Eugene, and Georgiana remained at the Tuileries receiving visitors while still thinking of Leon.

• Georgiana arranged a Sèvres reception, smashed Brongniart’s porcelain statue, and later urged Brongniart to support the concordat and introduce water meters.
• Georgiana’s conflict with Napoleon deepened over Louisiana, the constitution, and their relationship, and she survived the pottery-drying room fire before refusing to help him win his war.
• Georgiana pressed Napoleon to fund public works and famine relief, helped organize work and food aid, and sent Grégoire and Choffier to address hardship in Avignon.
• Georgiana proposed grain transport reforms and a Lyon-to-Paris railway, then took charge of the neglected Ministry of Magic and ordered its staff to enforce secrecy and rebuild its services.
• Georgiana organized Easter meals and lodging, argued with Napoleon over religion and marriage, and proposed turning the Élysée Palace into an inn while housing Louis I elsewhere.
• Georgiana sold varnish to fund an extra meal for canal workers, and Napoleon added wine and a puppet show before attending the Concordat ceremony at Notre-Dame.
• The Council of Five Hundred approved the Concordat, the Earl of Malmesbury warned Georgiana about a coup in Switzerland, and Josephine departed to seek a wife for Eugene as Georgiana received visitors.

Georgiana tried to influence Napoleon’s policies on Saint-Domingue, grain supplies, and slavery while facing illness, a suspected poisoning, and mounting doubts about their relationship. After leaving the Tuileries, she expanded a shelter for homeless women and went to meet Bishop Caprara.

• Georgiana warned Napoleon about the costs and atrocities of the Saint-Domingue campaign while considering grain policy, railways, and British offers.
• Berthier sent Georgiana to command mounted chasseurs in the Alps, where she reopened roads, organized transport, and explored practical improvements with local officials.
• Georgiana told Lucien she would return to Britain and proposed appointing Toussaint Louverture to high office while improving the treatment of enslaved people.
• Georgiana urged Napoleon to evacuate people from Saint-Domingue, grant colonial enslaved people citizenship, and send troops to Martinique to regroup, but he left without answering.
• Georgiana discovered foxglove leaves in her teapot and suspected an attempted poisoning, while telling Napoleon she might not live long and discussing a poison locket.
• Georgiana developed plans to protect Paris’s grain supply and warned Lucien she would leave if Napoleon continued the attack or restored slavery.
• Georgiana learned that Laplace had exposed William Harrison as an impostor, cared for Dermide, and heard that Napoleon would handle the failed Saint-Domingue expedition himself.
• Georgiana left the Tuileries to make room for the industrial exhibition, inspected her shelter at the Scottish College, ordered it expanded, and departed to meet Bishop Caprara.

Georgiana tried to steer Napoleon toward mercy and a just settlement for Saint-Domingue while navigating their volatile relationship and France’s political struggles. The arc left her preparing Napoleon’s birthday banquet as Toussaint Louverture was quarantined and the island’s future remained uncertain.

• Georgiana gave Sir Merry encrypted proposals about Saint-Domingue, and Leoncourt warned her that sharing them with the English was treason.
• Georgiana explained Britain’s strategy to Napoleon, who raged at being maneuvered into a damaging expedition and later considered isolating Saint-Domingue from trade.
• Georgiana drafted proposals to preserve Saint-Domingue as part of France while granting its residents civic and economic rights, and she challenged Napoleon over his treatment of others.
• Georgiana confronted Napoleon about slavery and the violence in Egypt and Saint-Domingue, then withdrew to her tower when he refused to change course.
• Georgiana continued pressing Napoleon to reconcile with Saint-Domingue as conspiracies were uncovered and French officials debated their response.
• Georgiana and Napoleon resumed their intimacy, while she weighed the consequences of his rule and the threat of scandal.
• Georgiana attended a debate on human equality and slavery, then helped Napoleon study Laplace’s work and discussed trade negotiations with him.
• Georgiana organized Napoleon’s birthday banquet, considered how to support formerly enslaved people, and ordered a sculptor to cover or redesign the Mediterranean Mermaid.