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The success of his victory at Toulon brings Napoleon to Paris where he is introduced to the decadence and dangers of the Revolution, meeting not only the powerful men of the Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety but also Josephine de Beauharnais, a notorious concubine who becomes his lover, then wife and eventually, his queen. There were two parts built; first, the fortress walls, including a large octagonal guardhouse to be surreptitiously scaled from the rear in a night attack, and second, matching set which was an enormous upper-level parapet deck with gun ports and multiple cannon positions which Napoleon captures and then turns on the British fleet, forcing it to withdraw after destroying several of their ships of the line. These set pieces were digitally grafted onto VFX plates of the actual fortress. For the naval battle scenes, we only had one actual vessel for this sequence but by sampling it in various ways and painting and repainting it as both British D. BRITISH SHIP ON FIRE—FORT ST. ANGELO. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION BY SIMON MCINESS. E. FRIGATE L'ETOILE DE ROI. THE ONLY PRACTICAL SHIP USED FOR THE FILM. REPAINTED AND REDRESSED SEVERAL TIMES TO REPRESENT BOTH FRENCH AND ENGLISH WARSHIPS AND MULTIPLIED AS VFX ELEMENTS. B C D E