Recaps

Georgiana took on the Seine River Police Department, confronted Bessières over his relationship with Virginie, and became increasingly entangled in Napoleon’s political and personal decisions. After Napoleon accused her of inciting rebellion and restricted her movements, she secretly copied a map of American land suited for cotton cultivation and planned to send it out.

• Georgiana urged Augustin de La Fayette to join the proposed Seine River Police Department, while Bougainville warned that the effort would put them against Fouché.
• Georgiana confronted Bessières over his relationship with Virginie, struck and healed him, and told him to make his marriage to Virginie official.
• Georgiana announced that she would write and stage a play about the witch trials in Switzerland, then destroyed the room with her wand alongside Joker.
• Georgiana told Napoleon that the Land Registry and Paris Agricultural Society belonged to the nation, then studied the challenges of surveying France and its territorial waters.
• Georgiana copied Napoleon’s old essay and later worked with him on geometry problems as the government prepared a cadastral survey of France, northern Italy, and Belgium.
• Georgiana confronted Bonaparte after finding him with Miss Georgina, but Fouché dismissed her questioning and escorted Georgina away.
• Georgiana criticized Bonaparte for sleeping with a sixteen-year-old girl, and Fouché told her they would be colleagues.
• Napoleon confined Georgiana within fifty meters of her residence, and she copied a map of American areas suitable for cotton cultivation and hid it upstairs.

Georgiana weighed France’s plans for Louisiana and the demands of her ties to Bonaparte while preparing for a journey to Italy. The stretch left her inspecting a mansion with the First Consul, who invited her to dance.

• Georgiana rejected Bonaparte’s advances at Saint-Cloud, then told him she would sponsor Robert Barker’s panoramas and travel with Princess Polina toward Italy.
• Georgiana discussed Louisiana’s sale with Sir Merry, Sieyès, and Cambacérès, proposing shared buyers and considering a lease as France weighed its trade losses.
• Georgiana argued with Bonaparte about her loyalty and his claim that she was his wife, while Matilda warned her that pamphlets were inciting war with Britain.
• Georgiana met Catherina and clarified that the handsome husband someone had demanded for her was the Earl of Aberdeen, then admitted she still wanted family life but would not marry again.
• Georgiana wrote Bonaparte a letter explaining her earlier reply and warning him of a sea monster near the Bahamas, then asked Aligi to deliver it.
• Georgiana weighed the financing and legal risks of Louisiana, tore off her garnet necklace, and chose yellow-green tourmaline instead.
• Georgiana assigned Bougainville surveying work and asked him to escort her to Italy, then inspected a former hotel in the Marais District with him, Aligi, and Julian Ouvrard.
• Bonaparte appeared at the mansion, asked Georgiana whether she liked it, and led her upstairs to dance.

Georgiana tried to balance her reforms in Paris with growing political unrest in Italy, while threats and assassination attempts made her journey increasingly dangerous. Bonaparte gave her authority over the Southern Alps Republic and ordered her to secure a stable government in Italy.

• Georgiana argued with Bonaparte over Louisiana, Malta, and his treatment of Italy, then chose the name Vulcan for their new residence and began planning its rooms.
• Georgiana visited Pauline and Dermide, but after Pettigrew’s Cruciatus Curse struck her, she was revived by Granville Sharp and later refused to live with a slave owner.
• Georgiana proposed hydrological stations and a communications network, redirected sand for flood-control sandbags, and eventually left Paris after settling her affairs.
• Georgiana warned John that his meeting was a trap and that the Spaniards planned to seize Gibraltar, then commissioned new designs and prepared to travel to the Mediterranean.
• When Milan rebelled, Georgiana considered the risks of intervening, renamed the planned Châtelet Opera House, and chose to continue to Italy with Polina.
• Georgiana met Alexander von Humboldt, learned about his South American research, and later discussed communications and security with Polina and Augereau.
• Bonaparte sent Georgiana orders to secure a stable government in Italy and authority over the Southern Alps Republic’s Council of State and police.
• Three assassins attacked Georgiana outside a jewelry shop, but Augereau fought them off and the gendarmes captured them before Georgiana questioned the attackers and left with Laplace.

Georgiana traveled from Paris toward Italy while managing political correspondence, trade questions, and her companions. In the Alps, she confronted bandits with a Mountain-Moving Charm, took a strange red stone from an underground cave, and left the mountains as wizards disputed a treasure cavern.

• Georgiana said goodbye to Bonaparte, received his letter and clothes, and set out with Polina and Dermide toward Italy.
• Georgiana funded work in Sens and Alfort, then read Cheroni’s letter urging Moreau to help Italians resist Napoleon and wrote to Leon about her plans.
• Georgiana questioned Bougainville about Gibraltar, then continued through the Alps despite the threat of war and Catherina’s altitude sickness.
• Bandits stopped Georgiana’s party near Aosta and demanded two hundred thousand francs, then threatened to kidnap them for ransom.
• Georgiana rode with the Chasseurs and cast a Mountain-Moving Charm that sent an avalanche across the charging bandits, then ordered help for the buried survivors.
• Georgiana found a strange red stone in an underground lake, took a piece, concealed the chamber, and left to seek Nicolas Flamel’s help.
• Georgiana agreed to let Dermide adopt an old rescue dog, then wrote to Bonaparte before Catherina interrupted her.
• The International Confederation of Wizards examined the mountain site as Lombard goblins claimed the ice-sealed cavern as an ancestral city and French wizards claimed its contents, before Georgiana and Feilier reached a broad plain.