1799: L'année la plus longue

TEXT IN FRENCH The year 1799 began just as 1798 ended, in the calm that precedes all storms. France now had six “sister republics” (Batavian, Cisalpine and Ligurian, Helvetic, Roman and Neapolitan) and was preparing to face the Second Coalition—aided, this time by Russia— in Egypt, in Italy and in Helvetia. Napoleon Bonaparte being far from Europe,...