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1814 to 1814 opens onto 1 life, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows.
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Early Modern
1750 to 1825
Private lives inside state collapse, military ambition, and the remaking of legitimacy.
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15 place stories active in the same years
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1814 CE to 1814 CE
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1814 - Malmaison
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Displacement, memory, and a life being arranged for other people's comfort.
At Malmaison, with Europe rearranging itself, an empress who was discarded sets down what Napoleon never acknowledged.
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1814 - Malmaison
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1814 - Malmaison
Empress Josephine stands at 1814 - Malmaison, with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
Exile, legacy control, and command surviving defeat.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Exiled to a rock in the Atlantic, a fallen emperor dictates the version of events his enemies will never be able to answer.
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30 BCE - Alexandria
monarchy-and-court
A contrasting life shaped by monarchy and court.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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1825 - Monticello
Reputation, contradiction, debt, and the politics of being made quotable.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Monticello, an architect of liberty confronts the contradictions he built into the foundations of a nation.
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1805 - London
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With his body failing faster than his office, Britain's youngest prime minister reflects on the weight of leading a nation at war.
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1804 - New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the summer before the duel, the architect of American finance sets down what the republic he built will never credit him for.
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1819 - Heathfield Hall, Handsworth
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With his hands no longer steady enough for a compass, the engineer whose steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution sets down what the machines concealed.
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
Exile, legacy control, and command surviving defeat.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Exiled to a rock in the Atlantic, a fallen emperor dictates the version of events his enemies will never be able to answer.
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30 BCE - Alexandria
monarchy-and-court
A contrasting life shaped by monarchy and court.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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1825 - Monticello
Reputation, contradiction, debt, and the politics of being made quotable.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Monticello, an architect of liberty confronts the contradictions he built into the foundations of a nation.
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1805 - London
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With his body failing faster than his office, Britain's youngest prime minister reflects on the weight of leading a nation at war.
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