Recaps

Joseph used his mathematical brilliance and police reforms to win a place in government, then began reshaping France’s finances, military plans, and public institutions. The arc ended with him establishing a Paris police leadership, planning a Police Academy and intelligence agency, and preparing to sell salicin-based cosmetics.

• Joseph impressed Lagrange with his mathematical examination, then asked Queen Mary for a role in government and was assigned to City Hall.
• Joseph investigated Viscount Lenotre’s suspicious death and became Police Commissioner of the Saint-Antoine District after the Duke of Orléans arranged the appointment to undermine him.
• Joseph reorganized the district police, trained civilian patrol members, and used Crown Prince Guards to suppress gang violence.
• Joseph and his allies exposed Guizot’s role in financing attacks and bribery, arrested him, and carried out a district-wide crackdown.
• Joseph returned to Versailles, recovered from pneumonia after taking willow-bark salicin, and received the appointment of Assistant Minister of Finance.
• Joseph argued for naval spending cuts while defending aid to the Dutch Patriot Party, and Louis XVI offered his own money to support it.
• Joseph proposed a Police Academy, recruited Besançon as Paris Police Commissioner and Friant to lead academic affairs, and secured spies for an intelligence agency.
• Joseph arranged funding for police reform and the academy, then ordered ingredients and packaging for his salicin-based cosmetics, Angel Water.

Joseph expanded Paris Angel into a luxury brand and used its success to launch a bank after France’s lenders refused the Government a loan. As the Netherlands campaign ended, he began building support for police and military reforms while Paris Angel prepared its public share sale.

• Joseph revised the Tax Law, backed Perna’s ambition to become a doctor, and developed Angel Water, which quickly became popular among noblewomen.
• Joseph opened the Paris Angel boutique, expanded its product line, and signed franchise contracts with investors across France.
• After major banks refused to lend the Government money, Joseph planned the France Reserve Bank and secured investments from ministers, nobles, Louis XVI, and Queen Mary.
• Joseph strengthened the Paris police and ordered Friant to expand the Police Academy, while rejecting Lavier Bank and Laborde Bank after they delayed loan negotiations.
• Diboa and Andre Davout described the Dutch campaign to Joseph, who learned that Berthier had helped plan the fighting and began recruiting military talent.
• Joseph proposed unified army management, expanded noncommissioned officer training, and new tactics, and Diboa and Andre agreed to help him develop the reforms.
• Brent rushed to open new Paris Angel stores, while the former homeless boy grew his chair-rental business and hundreds gathered to await the company’s share sale.

Joseph built the France Reserve Bank, an intelligence division, and a newspaper operation while countering political attacks on the royal family and the Tax Law. The arc left him developing a new rifle with Louis XVI as a crowd gathered for the stage adaptation of his story.

• Joseph opened Paris Angel Company’s public share offering, raised more than 1.55 million Livre, and directed Brent to keep selling shares until the funds reached 6 million Livre.
• Joseph acquired Serto Bank, renamed it the France Reserve Bank, and used it to provide a government loan, prompting the Duke of Orléans to see Joseph’s growing financial power as a political threat.
• The Duke of Orléans and banking leaders plotted against Brienne and the France Reserve Bank, while Joseph opened the Paris Police Academy and began building an intelligence division under Fouche.
• Joseph backed André Davout’s engagement to Emily Villar, tasked him with restoring her family’s holdings, and ordered Fouche to investigate schemes against the government and police.
• Joseph opposed attacks on the Tax Law and the royal family, bought the Paris Business Daily, and introduced lithographic printing to produce his new paper, News and Pictures.
• Joseph hired writers to create serialized stories, and the low-priced newspapers sold out as their coverage weakened the Duke of Orléans’s campaign against the Tax Law.
• Joseph advised Therese to stop bloodletting, helped Louis XVI develop a lithographic press, and proposed a rifle using a copper percussion cap and fulminate of mercury.
• Joseph arranged work on the rifle and new medicines, then arrived at the Comédie-Française to find a dense crowd waiting for the adaptation of Refining the Firmament.

Joseph defended Brienne’s financial reforms, exposed corruption in the High Court, and helped secure laws that curbed its authority. He then took charge of industrial planning as France faced a grain shortage and financial crisis, while Anna Soleil revealed intrigue around Philip’s British dealings.

• Joseph negotiated lower British tariffs with Hartley and persuaded Queen Mary to keep Brienne as Minister of Finance while the Tax Law faced opposition.
• Joseph recruited Nicoé to support Brienne, then enlisted Marat and Fouche to expose the High Court’s corruption through pamphlets and public demonstrations.
• Joseph persuaded Mirabeau to consider an alliance with the Crown and showed him a cheaper papermaking method, while the High Court blocked Brienne’s Tax Law.
• Joseph and Fouche arranged a bribery trap for Weijinie, and Danton exposed the judge’s corruption during Lunache’s trial.
• The Royal Plenipotentiary Court convicted Weijinie, overturned his earlier rulings, and gained authority to supervise the High Court and remove its control over news censorship.
• Queen Mary dismissed Sumiyar, appointed Brienne’s proposed reforms, and approved renewed trade negotiations as Joseph began establishing an Industrial Planning Bureau.
• Joseph captured Anna Soleil in his carriage, learned of Philip’s debts and British investments, and arrived at his bureau to review France’s industrial situation.