The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour by David Ebsworth

Thackeray states in Chapter XXX 'We do not claim to rank among the military novelists. William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair takes place during the 1815 Napoleonic War – one of its protagonists dies at the Battle of Waterloo.He has the battle and their separation reenacted, hoping the memory will heal her state. Years later after imprisonment, the husband returns to find his wife still in a state of utter shock and amnesia. Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo takes place against the backdrop of the Napoleonic War and subsequent decades, and in its unabridged form contains an epic telling of the Battle of Waterloo.Stendhal's novel The Charterhouse of Parma opens with a ground-level recounting of the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent chaotic retreat of French forces.Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace recounts Napoleon's wars between 18 (especially the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat) from a Russian perspective.In January 1826 The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror magazine published an account by Arna Cano of Moustache, a dog who had participated in various campaigns of the French army.

Napoleon himself wrote Clisson et Eugénie (1795), a romantic novella about a soldier and his lover, widely acknowledged as being a fictionalised account of his own relationship with Eugénie Désirée Clary.The Napoleonic Wars were a defining event of the early 19th century, and inspired many works of fiction, from then until the present day. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture.

The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour by David Ebsworth