Recaps

Georgiana confronted the human costs of industrialization while trying to shape trade, labor, and political reform alongside Bonaparte. The stretch ended with her laying out a plan for workers and factory owners, while still unable to accept Albus’s death.

• Georgiana learned about Britain’s textile industry and its lack of protections for factory children, then connected their suffering to her regret over Severus and Arthur Weasley.
• Georgiana met Pitt, discussed tariffs and industrial politics, and told Bonaparte about the Workers' Alliance Act and the political effects of industrial growth.
• Georgiana proposed international trade lists and cooperation over magical creatures, then burned clothes she suspected had been made through child labor.
• Georgiana urged Bonaparte to support widows and orphans through brewing rights and licenses, while he explained how taxes funded shelters and hospitals.
• Georgiana planned to bring Amy Argand to France to improve hydrogen production, and considered how engineers and industrialists might help address poverty.
• Georgiana and Bonaparte discussed religion, her father’s death, and his ambitions for Europe, before she offered to help him become emperor.
• Georgiana challenged Bonaparte over his reliance on divine authority and grieved his mortality, while he failed to comfort her.
• Georgiana proposed worker representatives, wage negotiations, and minimum textile prices, then realized she was not ready to accept Albus’s death.

Georgiana traveled with Bonaparte to Boulogne, where she worked to prepare a truce banquet and pursue plans for a church and hospital. Cassandra warned her of a future catastrophe, while Georgiana’s relationship with Bonaparte and her efforts to support Fresnel remained unresolved.

• Georgiana traveled with Bonaparte to a hidden coastal village, then boarded the Pomona with him and reached Boulogne safely.
• Bonaparte ordered military and naval works at Boulogne while Georgiana chose a site for St. Peter's Church and planned a hospital.
• Georgiana met Maria Edgeworth, who questioned her dependence on Bonaparte and argued with her about the education and work of children.
• Georgiana challenged Bonaparte over exploitation and their relationship, and he returned to tell her that he loved her.
• Georgiana organized a banquet for two thousand people, where Cassandra warned her that a prolonged catastrophe would cause food shortages and urged her to plan for grain reserves.
• Georgiana kept Cassandra's warning from Bonaparte, prepared a map table as his birthday gift, and joined him on the beach to fly kites.
• Georgiana burned a note after discovering Napoleon's handwriting and finding that its contents differed from what he had claimed, then continued preparing the banquet and wore gifts from Bonaparte.
• Georgiana walked with Fargeon, who explained Fresnel's need for purer glass and gave Georgiana a book about John Ray.

Georgiana organized a banquet for Bonaparte while encountering British visitors, political intrigues, and stories of Qing rule and sorcery. Metternich’s revelations about Austria and the American Scourer’s warnings left her wary of Napoleon’s future marriage, foreign threats, and eavesdroppers.

• Georgiana asked Bonaparte to help James Watt find his son, then fled into the farmhouse when he angrily rose after she criticized his priorities.
• Georgiana prepared a banquet for two thousand guests, met Stanley at the docks, and learned that British parliamentarians were interested in Trinidad and Mexican silver had reached Boulton’s mint.
• Georgiana met the Duke of Bedford and his young fiancée, Miss Gordon, then raced on horseback toward an abandoned orphanage and encountered a British cavalryman who doubted her efforts to make peace.
• Georgiana watched Watt demonstrate his sidereal clock, gave the wagered dagger to Francis, and met Maria Edgeworth, who discussed Irish education and the failure of his invention to outpace Chappe’s telegraph.
• Bonaparte gave Georgiana a wheat-shaped watch bracelet, and they entered the banquet together before she danced with an unexpected partner who told her to keep dreaming.
• Georgiana and Bonaparte discussed Qing sorcery panics, corrupt officials, salt-tax fraud, and the scapegoating of drifters as stories of investigations and executions unfolded around them.
• Georgiana used a silver fan to lead Bonaparte away from Miss Raucourt, while Bonaparte discussed China’s failed negotiations with Britain and Georgiana rejected silk made through enslaved labor.
• Georgiana followed a fire-like fountain to Clemens Metternich, who told her people admired her, then heard the American Scourer warn her about manipulation and challenge her over her loyalty to Napoleon and inability to bear children.

Georgiana sailed with Napoleon under a Swiss flag while reading Nick Poirot’s account of his work and growing entanglement in China. Nick’s search brought him into a suspected rebellion plot, while Georgiana and Napoleon’s uneasy intimacy continued aboard ship.

• Georgiana watched Napoleon board the Pomona and sailed with him under a Swiss flag, then challenged him over Valais as they crossed the sea.
• Georgiana read Nick’s account of curing the Guangzhou Admiral’s daughter, Wan Ning, and learned that Nick had returned to France rather than marry into the Admiral’s family.
• Nick met a provincial graduate who explained Chinese customs and the Soulstealers case, including Zhang Tingrui’s fabricated rebellion charge and execution sentence.
• Nick accepted work drawing China’s coastline for the British Admiralty, but Captain Yao refused to take him to Xiamen and attackers tried to capture him as a spy.
• Nick showed Cao Xi a paper urging rebellion, and Cao Xi recruited him to investigate suspected rebels gathering at a village temple.
• Nick and Cao Xi entered the temple in disguise and suspected the rebels planned something during the Empress of Heaven Festival, while Georgiana read Bonaparte a passage about a voice at the temple and burned the page.