The case is most singular. During the epic of the imperial wars, these years of "universal carnage",two cavalry officers who only know each other from afar will engage in a long private quarrel. Lieutenants of hussars, Féraud and d'Hubert come from distant regions of France and do not serve in the same regiment. It all begins when they find themselves garrisoned in Strasbourg and the second has received from his general the order to put the first to arrest. But don't count on us to tell you how it ends. Just that there is no shortage of fighting sword duels. That the blood spreads regularly in one as in the other, which very often fail to pass away. That these gentlemen will sometimes have the opportunity to unite and fight side by side to repel the Cossacks with a gun during the retreat from Russia…
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Although fervent defenders of Emperor Napoleon I and although devoted body and soul to the glory and salvation of
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