Jean-Noël Luc (ed.), Figures de Gendarmes, Sociétés et Représentations
‘Je demande à voir tes papiers’. With these words the retired gendarme brigadier Dussutour, veteran of the Crimea and Napoleon III’s Italian adventures, confronts the Prussian army in 1870, and simultaneously concludes Léon Bloy’s short story Le bon gendarme. Bloy’s Dussutour is courageous, but his...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | ‘Je demande à voir tes papiers’. With these words the retired gendarme brigadier Dussutour, veteran of the Crimea and Napoleon III’s Italian adventures, confronts the Prussian army in 1870, and simultaneously concludes Léon Bloy’s short story Le bon gendarme. Bloy’s Dussutour is courageous, but his intention to halt the Prussian advance in this manner is comic, not to say ridiculous. The story, however, as François Dieu make plain in the conclusion to this illuminating collection of essays, ... |
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