I have been watching the show on Amazon Prime. It takes place in Paris in 1800 and it is a "biography" of Antonin Carême. . . both Talleyrand Fouche play a prominent role and there is an occasional appearance of Napoleon and Josephine.
It is entertaining and since this is an area I have only basic knowledge on, I will not comment on its accuracy.
I put this comment on Zack’s Youtube chaannel too, where he has put up a video of Dr Graeme Callister - just to find the answer really. I noticed the same thing with Kurt Baird’s PhD on Austrian experiences of military life:
”Is there some weird other universe where academics actually bother to read research by non-academics? Terry Crowdy and I have worked on this for nearly 30 years, the results appearing ads an Osprey first and then a full-sized book. What is all this nonsense about Corps systems, Zack?”
I then listed several examples of major errors, which are all laid out properly in the works by Terry and myself. The account of the Desaix stage from Dr Callister makes no sense at all. The Austrian plan was based on the expectation that Bonaparte would swallow their fake plan and advance down the Sale road - it is in…
Over the past decade the Portuguese Army Archives has placed tens of thousands documents online and are accessible to the public. Many more documents were digitized but the Archives ran out of funds to index them and place them online. Among those not accessible were files on British officers who served in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War and afterwards until the Portuguese Revolution of 1821.
There was a recent fund-raising event to place on line all documents on the British officers who served in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War. Donations were made by the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the Waterloo Association, the Friends of the British Cemetery at Elvis, and the British Historical Society.
Work began in March 2026 and ended in May 2026. The initial estimate that there were files for about 125 of the 375 British officers for a total of…
Thanks! I had trouble using the link, so I typed in the title and the dissertation came up.
From my post of 8th Feb 2025:
Given recent issues around UK celebrity chefs, it was probably best made in French about the original celebrity chef, who cooked for Napoleon and Tsar Alexander. However, looking at internet items about Careme, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine_Car%C3%AAme and https://parisfordreamers.com/2024/03/17/the-incredible-life-and-delicious-legacy-of-antonin-careme-the-original-parisian-celebrity-chef/, it seems he was just a chef and the spy bit has been added to embellish the story. Maybe we will see UK follow-ups like 'The Hairy Spies' and 'Two Fat Spies'?