![]() ![]() But what about the other battles fought by the French armies over the same four or five days? At Charleroi, Gilly, Genappe and Wavre? Barely a word.Īnd I love this story. For one thing, even the best of our English-language historians pay scant regard to anything except the three “main” battles, at Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo itself. ![]() I was personally intrigued by this too, and it didn’t take me long to realise that the perspective is very different indeed. ![]() And yes, I know that this will probably invite a whole pile of brick-bat responses to correct my ignorance, but such was my perspective – that there was a “gap” for readers wanting to know how the Hundred Days campaign might look from a French viewpoint. So it became instantly obvious to me that, while there have been several famous novels with Waterloo settings written by foreign writers ( Les Misérables and The Charterhouse of Parma, to mention just a couple), I wasn’t really aware of any English-language tales of the battle from a French perspective. ![]()
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