How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did by Clarke Stephen

Author:Clarke, Stephen [Clarke, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781448138517
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

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fn1 See my book 1000 Years of Annoying the French to find out how France used this victory at Rocquencourt to win yet another battle over the Anglo-Saxon enemy almost 150 years later.

fn2 After this mission, HMS Bellerophon was converted into a prison ship, and in case its future occupants misinterpreted their status, as Napoleon had done, it was renamed the Captivity.

PART TWO

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ABSENCE MAKES THE (FRENCH) HEART GROW FONDER

‘Napoléon a accru le patrimoine d’héroïsme de la France.’

‘Napoleon increased France’s national stock of heroism.’

– from the review of a book about Waterloo in the magazine Lectures pour Tous (1898)

‘Une défaite est l’expiation d’une gloire passée et souvent le garant d’une victoire pour l’avenir.’

‘A defeat is an atonement for past glory, and often the guarantee of future victory.’

– Ernest Renan, nineteenth-century French philosopher

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