In the canon
La Débâcle
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1892
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 500
A French army marches into the war of 1870 short of everything, is destroyed at Sedan in a week, and surrenders with its emperor. A peasant corporal and the young volunteer he has come to love end up on opposite sides in burning Paris.
But why are they still firing when I have had the white flag hoisted?
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