Napoleon's Switzerland triumph, 1802-3 (w/Biancamaria Fontana)

Bonaparte's decision to intervene in Switzerland in 1802 after years of unrest with the French-imposed Helvetic Republic led to a return to the kind of localist, cantonal government which the Swiss had always been more comfortable with. This bonus episode with Biancamaria Fontana of the University of Lausanne tells the story all the way up to the Act of Mediation, which features in episode 45 of this podcast - a positive story which, seen in isolation instead of the context of European affairs at the time, seems to reflect itself much more positively towards Napoleon than the British would have liked - or accepted.