| Titre | La Russie et les Russes dans les écrits des prisonniers de la Grande Armée : une approche comparée | |
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| Auteur | Marie-Pierre Rey | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 83, no 4, 2012 1812, la campagne de Russie. Histoire et représentations | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 993-1010 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Russia and the Russians in the Memoirs of Prisoners of Napoleon's Grande Armée A Comparative Approach
In the Russian Campaign, Napoleon took with him almost 600,000 soldiers and officers. In December 1812, only about 60 to 80,000 of them would retreat back across the Niemen River. Between 150 and 200,000 men, often wounded and sick, were made prisoners of war. Given the disorder and the absence of regulations in which these arrests took place, the fate of these prisoners was often tragic : many were immediately executed. However, some were luckier and escaped these executions, to be deported to the East. Survivors of the Russian hell, they returned to France where a handful wrote memoirs that were published during their lifetimes or after their deaths. What do these texts reveal about the way prisoners were treated ? What do they tell us about the Russian Empire and its inhabitants ? What do they tell us about people, their customs, and their government ? These are the questions this article addresses. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2012_num_83_4_8289 |
