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The night of the adventurers, by Nicolas Chaudun: is Paris burning?

2021-10-27T14:20:50.525Z


THE CHRONICLE OF ÉTIENNE DE MONTETY - The author writes the story of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état on December 2, 1851, with mocking glee.


In the eyes of posterity, a fact of history always appears limpid, led by courageous men, and determined, when it is not by the actions of one does not know which god eager to make bend the history of the world under his will.

Historians are well aware that this is not always the case and that uncertainty or luck, the character of the protagonists play their part.

This climate, gray, blurry pleases novelists, it allows them to draw the fresco as they wish, or almost.

Thus Nicolas Chaudun seized on December 2, 1851, when Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the President of the Second Republic, became Emperor of the French, under the cheers of some and the sarcasm of Victor Hugo.

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Source: lefigaro

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