La figure de l’ennemi
When the news of the emperor’s defeat in Belgium reaches France, the royalists aim to cut all links between the army and the people. To this end, a figurehead for the “enemy” is created, given physical and moral characteristics that make him alien and dangerous to the society, warmonger and brutal.C...
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2016
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | When the news of the emperor’s defeat in Belgium reaches France, the royalists aim to cut all links between the army and the people. To this end, a figurehead for the “enemy” is created, given physical and moral characteristics that make him alien and dangerous to the society, warmonger and brutal.Captain Barthélemy Bacheville fits perfectly this figure ad a diehard bonapartist, Old Guard officer. Both official reports and his memoirs enable Laurent Nagy to retrace his personal itinerary during the Second Restoration. |
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