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19 lis 2016 · In Napoleon’s Army After the Fall of Moscow, Victor Hugo reveals the catastrophic carnage of Napoleon’s 1812 Campaign in Russia through the eyes of the soldiers. Hugo often criticized Napoleon’s leadership of French armies in the newspapers, journals and his literature, which provoked heated debate in France with his contemporaries Balzac ...
Victor Hugo: "L'expiation" Selection: The Moscow Campaign Hugo’s long poem was written after his exile because of the coup d’état of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew, who would become Emperor Napoleon III.
The Expiation: I; By Victor Hugo. 1966. The humility of Napoleon as he retreats from Russia in 1812 is told of by Hugo with the accompaniment of cold terror, variously. What Napoleon liked least — confusion — is now his lavishly. Hugo was, it is said, excessively ready to hail Dieu, Temps, Mort, Espace, Moi, but here he is detailed enough.
Victor Hugo portrayal of Napoleon’s army’s defeat in “The Expiation” showed that the French army was fighting much more than the Russians. “The Expiation” focuses on the unpreparedness of Napoleon’s army that forced them to fight Nature and the Cossacks at the same time. Napoleon’s army was utterly crushed by the Russians in 1812.
Translated by Robert Lowell. An excerpt from Hugo's long poem "The Expiation". Depicts the long, tragic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Army following their unsuccessful invasion of Russia in 1812.
31 lip 2014 · Russia 1812. Victor Hugo Translated by Robert Lowell. The snow fell, and its power was multiplied. For the first time the Eagle bowed its head– dark days! Slowly the Emperor returned– behind him Moscow! Its onion domes still burned. The snow rained down in blizzards–rained and froze.
Hugo used it for Napoleon Bonaparte to show his respect. But then, in another part of the poem, he used the informal you when speaking of Napoleon III, who followed Napoleon Bonaparte to the throne of France.
