Conscript of 1813 and Waterloo (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Conscript of 1813 and Waterloo The task of alloting to Mm. Erckmann-Chatrian their proper position in the literature of Europe is simplified by the fact that their more serious work (with which we are now concerned) is quite unique. They portray the position of the humbler classes in France towards the Napoleonic cult; they indicate in plain yet convincing language the inherent weakness of that cult after Napoleon began his wild career of attempted conquest for the sake of "glory"; and they do not forget to show the follies of the Bourbons, which resulted in the French nation, despite its terrible losses between 1789 and 1814, welcoming back the great warrior from Elba. They also tell us with the convincing fervour of truth rather than the noise of the enthusiast, of the real causes of the Revolution, and those later causes which swept it away. Every student of history is more or less acquainted with the plain facts thus dealt with, but nobody else has related with such photographic exactitude the feelings, the flexibility, even the fickleness of the French people. Great deeds of high courage are not despised, but are taken rather as a matter of course. The horror of conscription is vividly shown, and so are the hardships of the soldier´s life. Historically, the account of Waterloo is not reliable. Patriotism has usurped the place of impersonal truth. But that is of no great importance, inasmuch as we do not read Erckmann-Chatrian for tactical exactitude, but rather to discover what was the mind of the people of France - that fascinating and volatile race, whose glories are to be found in peace as well as in war; a race which, when it fights, will fight with equal readiness among its own folk as it did in defence of invasion, or for those "rights of man" which were used by Napoleon to dazzle his Empire and to plunge it into dire disaster. Mm. Erckmann-Chatrian were both born in 1822, and of course their youthful minds were filled with the wonders of imagination following on the relation of deeds taken part in by nearly all the older men around them. M. Erckmann was a clever lawyer, and his collaborateur was at one time a glass worker and afterwards a schoolmaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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