This week at 52fs, slightly later than usual: Napoleon!

Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be digging into ballad writers' curious fascination with Napoleon - who was, after all, a serious enemy of Britain.

FS09 is the Grand Conversation on Napoleon: a slab and a half of broadside verbiage set to a multi-modal dance tune (I've appended a quick run-through of a variant of "The cuckoo's nest" for comparison). It also name-checks at least three other songs about Napoleon.

Also this week: I take on Plains of Waterloo. Wish me luck.

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