The two women become lovers, meeting while the woman’s husband is away. The daughter a boatman born with webbed feet, Villanelle cross-dresses for a living at the casino. Meanwhile in Venice, androgynous beauty Villanelle falls in love with a mysterious woman she meets at a casino. Now 20 years old, Henri rings in the New Year of 1805 riddled with guilt over the mass deaths and questioning his faith.
In 1804, after 2,000 men are killed in an avoidable accident, Henri begins to doubt Napoleon’s motives. While camped at Boulogne, Henri befriends a horse keeper, Domino, and Patrick, a defrocked priest removed from the church for spying on naked women. Looking back, Henri notes the rising support of Napoleon and how he symbolized France’s ambition for itself.
Enthralled by Napoleon’s charisma, Henri ignores Napoleon’s despotic behavior. Henri becomes responsible for quelling Napoleon’s great appetite for chicken. After coming to the rescue when the head cook is too drunk to perform his duties, Napoleon commends Henri’s skill and demands that Henri wait on him personally. The Passion begins in Henri’s voice he’s a young, bright-eyed soldier in Napoleon’s army who dreamed of being a drummer but is assigned to cook instead.
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