by Patrick Ramabaud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253146469
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«La Bataille» is the historical novel by Patrick Rambaud, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (284 pages, in French).
Historical novel about the Battle of Essling (1809), between the Austrians and Napoleon's Grande Armée, an episode Balzac planned to novelize without succeeding. Rambaud reconstructs thirty hours of combat with soldiers, surgeons, actresses and spies, alongside Stendhal and Marshals Lannes and Masséna, while fortune abandons Napoleon.
First installment of Patrick Rambaud's «Fin d’Empire» series. Awarded in 1997 the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française and the Prix Goncourt.
For readers of historical fiction and Napoleonic war fiction, interested in contemporary French literature.
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
