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“When Europe faced the great invasions”
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“When Europe faced great invasions” Le Figaro History
Aragon had us follow, on the muddy roads of Picardy, the sedan which carried Louis XVIII in flight towards the borders of Belgium, as Napoleon approached, flying from bell tower to bell tower, returning from the island of Elba .
He had recounted the beginnings of the useless epic of the Hundred Days from the point of view of the vanquished.
The shadow of Holy Week hangs over The Italian Mistress, the novel in brief form by Jean-Marie Rouart.
It is Napoleon's stay on the island of Elba, from his arrival until his final escape, that we are talking about here, but the methods are the same: evoking by refraction the figure of the great outlaw by unwinding the tangle of schemes of sovereigns, princes, diplomats who conduct their affairs victoriously...
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