Thomas Paine’s end was one of the saddest to be inflicted upon any of the founding fathers.  After Age of Reason, all of his former political allies, the men who owed the success of the revolution to his pen, entirely abandoned him, and left him to die in squalor.  Rumford, meanwhile, bounced about as Rumfords magnificently do.

I’ve decided to devote this week to catching up with corners of the Frederickverse we haven’t seen in a while, like, whatever happened to the France that, instead of going through a revolution, put a young Napoleon Bonaparte in charge way back in episode 618?  – Count DvL