Forgetting the French
There's been an interesting suggestion on social media that the French have been written out of the Waterloo narrative. Personally, and this is just my opinion, I find it difficult to see the rationale for this claim, though I think the idea is that Anglo-centricism has downplayed the French narrative. (Even so such an argument completely ignores a wide array of books on the French perspective, most notably those of Andrew Field). Nonetheless, there are no doubt key elements of the French experience that ARE all too often forgotten, so: what are they, and how do they rewrite our understanding of the Waterloo campaign?
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You don't have to blow your trumpet - it was a very refreshing read.