Recaps

Joseph helped Younis escape Algiers, then led France’s seizure of Bizerte and backed a revolt that toppled the Algiers Guard Corps in Tunis. After French victories against Algerian forces, Haji Bey petitioned to join France, and Louis XVI formally incorporated Tunis as provinces while military aristocrats plotted against Berthier.

• Joseph agreed to support Younis’s return as Bey of Tunis in exchange for an end to raids, French-aligned trade, and French administration of Bizerte, then helped him escape Algiers.
• Younis’s rebellion suffered heavy losses, but the Crown Prince’s Guard Legion captured Bizerte and advanced on Tunis after Hamud Ali refused French demands.
• Haji and French agents killed Hamud Ali, and Haji took power as French forces occupied Tunis City and began securing the territory.
• Joseph returned to Tunis and used pamphlets, staged omens, and weapons to encourage a revolt, while Ishaq and Zhemile led rebels against the Guard Corps.
• The Royal Guard Legion supported the rebels with artillery and officers, and Zhemile’s forces captured Tunis and pledged loyalty to Haji.
• Joseph led the Royal Guard Legion to defeat the Albanian mercenaries and then ambush the Algiers Guard Corps, forcing both armies to surrender.
• Haji petitioned Louis XVI to make Tunis part of France, and Louis XVI incorporated Bizerte, Susa, Kairouan, and Sfax as French provinces.
• Queen Mary honored Joseph and the campaign’s participants, while military aristocrats plotted to curb Berthier’s influence and the Ottoman Empire received news of Tunis’s departure.

Joseph used the food riots and a staged military rebellion to break the power of hostile officers and nobles while pushing reforms through Versailles. The unrest spread across western and southern France, and Fouche located the Duke of Orléans in Armor.

• Joseph uncovered the Duke of Orléans’s role in the plots and riots, then secured authority to quell the unrest and persuaded the church to distribute its grain.
• Joseph mobilized troops and recalled senior officers to Versailles as church grain and police arrests weakened the riots, while Bonaparte scattered rioters near Valence.
• Joseph staged an attack on Berthier’s forces, defeated Marquis of Saint-Viran’s army, and obtained the marquis’s confession that the Duke of Orléans had masterminded the conspiracy.
• Joseph imposed centralized military reforms on Marquis of Luckner and other generals, gaining control over more than ten armies.
• Mirabeau helped reformist nobles rally support for abolishing noble privileges, and Queen Mary promised to make the proposal law despite opposition from the Old Nobles.
• Joseph ordered Mirabeau’s operation against the Old Nobles to begin, while Scarface and police agents stirred crowds to attack noble estates in Nice.
• The mob looted Duke of Dourfo’s estate, riots spread across western and southern France, and Fouche learned that the Duke of Orléans was still in Armor.

Joseph used the end of the riots to expand police and economic reforms, develop French industry, and reshape agriculture. In Tunis, he countered resistance with propaganda and political inducements as British and Ottoman maneuvers threatened to draw France into a wider conflict, then returned to Paris at Queen Mary’s summons.

• Fouche killed the wounded Duke of Orléans during the assault on Count of Thiol’s villa, while Queen Mary approved the abolition of noble privileges.
• Joseph secured nationwide Police Reform, and new police helped restore order as the Star of France competition and public trials shifted attention from the riots.
• Joseph organized the Royal Guard Legions, while the High Court approved the Duke of Chartres’s inheritance and Danton imposed fines that threatened to leave the estate deeply insolvent.
• Joseph pushed plans for gas lighting, higher agricultural yields, Automatic Looms, steam engines, and improved ironmaking to expand France’s economy and industry.
• After learning that British-backed conspirators had helped stage a coup in Tripoli, Joseph went to Tunis and ordered French forces to secure the Algiers border while seeking reinforcements.
• Joseph answered Tunisian resistance with the Star of France competition and a popular epic, then arranged to win over tribal leaders with titles and lavish entertainment.
• As Ottoman troops entered Tripoli and Britain maneuvered to pressure Tunis, Joseph avoided a major campaign, sent captured spies to Paris, and departed for Paris after Queen Mary summoned him.

Joseph expanded France’s influence through diplomacy and trade while the Brabant Rebellion grew into a war between Austria and Prussia. After Würmser’s defeat, Joseph prepared France for the widening conflict and learned that Joseph II was gravely ill as Queen Mary proposed he marry Clementine.

• Marion du Fresne established New Marseille Port and negotiated land agreements with Chief Tuai, while Joseph recruited Napoleon and prepared support for Mysore against Britain.
• Joseph developed plans to expand Paris, staged the Star of France finals, and persuaded Queen Mary to prioritize France’s interests in the Brabant crisis.
• Joseph secured Carlos IV’s cooperation on Gibraltar and Portugal, then arranged covert Polish resistance and expanded French engine sales into Britain and German markets.
• In Vienna, Joseph offered Austria logistical support and negotiated favorable trade terms, while Talleyrand proposed that Austria exchange the Southern Netherlands for Bavaria.
• Würmser led Austrian and Bavarian troops against the Brabant rebels, but Prussian forces joined the fighting near Rochefort and defeated the Austrians after the Netherlands rebels held their line.
• Eman reported Würmser’s losses and growing Dutch support for the rebels, so Joseph ordered preparations for France’s army and logistics inspections.
• Queen Mary summoned Joseph and proposed that he marry Clementine after reporting that Joseph II’s health was failing, but Joseph objected to the risks of marriage between close relatives.