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Chargement... 1812 Napoleon in Moscow (1995)par Paul Britten Austin
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At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia.After the fires died down the army settled in the ruins of Moscow; for f Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The narrative lifts a heavy velvet curtain on what happened there in great details to intimately understand the misconception of a mission of civilization gone wrong. As the French Emperor's "coalition of the willing" march to Moscow was seen by Kutusov and the Russians as "a marauding force of Tartars under a Genghis Khan". Paul Britten Austin's writings convey something truly Neronian in the depiction of Napoleon watching, from the towers of the Kremlin , the fires lit all over Moscow by Rostopchin's agents. Yet his demoniac genius finds the time, concentration or perhaps the escape in writing the regulations of the Comedie-Francaise, Moliere's French National Theater founded by his illustrious predecessor - equally unlucky as to his legacy of a war impoverished Nation - Louis XIV.
But destiny would have that Napoleon did not end his luminous passage on our Earth trampled in the snow by the horses of Platov's 6,000 Cossaks... ( )