Les Français de Moscou en 1812

Today, evoking the year 1812, keeps in memory a dramatic picture of the Napoleonic epic: the entire city of Moscow in flames, an exhausted and hungry army, courageously facing the great cold Russian winter. The writers of yesterday and today have mostly built this history on the testimony of the soldiers of the Grande Armee. After the war, officers seized their pens to justify, explain and to better understand the defeat. With the celebration of the bicentenary of 1812, Hasquenoph provides the point of view of four witnesses from the French colony in Moscow: a clergyman, two artists from the theater, and an aristocrat in business. This narrative presents a new illumination on the French turmoil of history, that of Napoleon, France and Europe.