He was as beautiful as an angel.
He looked like a child.
They gave him the good Lord without confession.
Vincent Bosse was already 20 years old in 1810 when recruiters from the Napoleonic army roamed the villages of Isère.
To allow him to escape conscription, the priest suggests that he enter the seminary.
Vincent nods.
He will acquiesce to all the prompts of fate.
The priest also celebrates false burials in order to pass off young men as dead and cross them off the conscript lists.
But the recruiting officer finds these sudden deaths suspicious.
He questions Vincent, considering that he must not know how to lie.
Indeed.
The parish priest is arrested and Vincent deemed fit for the service.
His pure face softened the officers.
It is named drum - a post less exposed to fire.
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1812, Battle of Borodino.
Rran rrrran rrrantanplan.
Vincent sounds the charge in the wake of his drum major which will be mown later with a saber.
But he is doing it.
Here it is
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