Did corruption keep the Temeraire program going?

Did corruption or personal connections help sustain the Temeraire-class procurement program?

Possibly, although the brief exchange gives no detailed evidence and leaves corruption and patronage as tentative explanations.

A viewer asks whether corruption and well-connected friends influenced the Napoleonic French naval procurement system. The reply allows that those factors may have been involved, but offers no detailed evidence. The question follows criticism that France kept building large numbers of the Temeraire design despite repeated operational defeats. It raises patronage as a possible institutional explanation without establishing it as the answer. The exchange leaves that hypothesis unresolved rather than documenting a procurement scandal.