JEAN-LOUIS DE CRABBÉ COLONEL D'EMPIRE, Laissé pour mort à Waterloo.
"JEAN-LOUIS DE CRABBÉ COLONEL OF THE EMPIRE, Left for dead at Waterloo."
François HUE
Bertrand Malvaux Publisher, Editions of the Gunner 2005
304 pages, 256 pages on matte coated 90-gram handmade paper, 48 pages in full color on matte coated 115-gram handmade paper. 36 color illustrations composed of period engravings and rare collection items. 6 uniform plates illustrated by André Jouineau, and 11 geographical maps representing the campaigns of Colonel de Crabbé illustrated by André Jouineau. Cover 300 grams, square spine glued and sewn. Format 14.5 x 20 cm in the French style.
Presented in the form of travel journals, this book allows us to relive the enthusiasms, sufferings, and inner thoughts of Colonel Jean-Louis de Crabbé, who, during a quarter of a century, as a hussar, as a cavalry hunter, or as a staff officer, took part in fourteen campaigns under the Revolution and the Empire including that of Guadeloupe, tirelessly rode across Europe, was "sometimes wounded…” as indicated in his file, and rubbed shoulders with history. He experienced the thrill of victories, but also the hardships and fatigue that he shared with the soldiers of the epic.
Thus passes before the eyes of a French officer, born in Belgium, married to a woman from Piedmont, and deceased in Germany, an entire era marked by illustrious figures and battles: Neewinden, Fleurus, Nimègue, Zurich, Hohenlinden, Ulm, Jena, Dresden, Leipzig, and many more, and eventually, Waterloo from which our hero, wounded, never recovered.
He experienced injustice. He deeply felt the pettiness and betrayals of his contemporaries. Not being precisely "a commoner, an obscure, a nobody…", but a faithful man until death, he could have taken on the altercation that, over a hundred years later, Rostand makes the grenadier Flambeau launch in 'L'Aiglon' at Marshal Marmont:
“We never ceased to march
Except to fight, and to fight one against four
Only to march again, and to march only to fight.
Marching and fighting, thin, bare, black, and cheerful
Perhaps we were not tired?
And without being indebted to him like you with candles,
It was us, however, who remained faithful to him.
At the king's gates, your horse pranced…”
Editions of the Gunner
François HUE
Bertrand Malvaux Publisher, Editions of the Gunner 2005
304 pages, 256 pages on matte coated 90-gram handmade paper, 48 pages in full color on matte coated 115-gram handmade paper. 36 color illustrations composed of period engravings and rare collection items. 6 uniform plates illustrated by André Jouineau, and 11 geographical maps representing the campaigns of Colonel de Crabbé illustrated by André Jouineau. Cover 300 grams, square spine glued and sewn. Format 14.5 x 20 cm in the French style.
Presented in the form of travel journals, this book allows us to relive the enthusiasms, sufferings, and inner thoughts of Colonel Jean-Louis de Crabbé, who, during a quarter of a century, as a hussar, as a cavalry hunter, or as a staff officer, took part in fourteen campaigns under the Revolution and the Empire including that of Guadeloupe, tirelessly rode across Europe, was "sometimes wounded…” as indicated in his file, and rubbed shoulders with history. He experienced the thrill of victories, but also the hardships and fatigue that he shared with the soldiers of the epic.
Thus passes before the eyes of a French officer, born in Belgium, married to a woman from Piedmont, and deceased in Germany, an entire era marked by illustrious figures and battles: Neewinden, Fleurus, Nimègue, Zurich, Hohenlinden, Ulm, Jena, Dresden, Leipzig, and many more, and eventually, Waterloo from which our hero, wounded, never recovered.
He experienced injustice. He deeply felt the pettiness and betrayals of his contemporaries. Not being precisely "a commoner, an obscure, a nobody…", but a faithful man until death, he could have taken on the altercation that, over a hundred years later, Rostand makes the grenadier Flambeau launch in 'L'Aiglon' at Marshal Marmont:
“We never ceased to march
Except to fight, and to fight one against four
Only to march again, and to march only to fight.
Marching and fighting, thin, bare, black, and cheerful
Perhaps we were not tired?
And without being indebted to him like you with candles,
It was us, however, who remained faithful to him.
At the king's gates, your horse pranced…”
Editions of the Gunner
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Only items sold by me are subject to an authenticity certificate, I do not provide any expert reports for items sold by third parties (colleagues or collectors).