 deadhead  | 09 Apr 2019 8:06 a.m. PST |
…..of the Fighting after Waterloo" By Paul L Dawson. A few recent publications have covered this, but I can never get too many books about 1815. No idea of the content though, as we will have to wait until September 2019 (at least I suspect).
"On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General R mi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defence of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day of 18 June, when Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his last battle, abdicating his throne on 22 June. So why was Exelmans still fighting for Paris? Surely the fighting had ended on 18 June? Not so. Waterloo was not the ….etc" quoth the blurb
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| BillyNM | 09 Apr 2019 10:13 a.m. PST |
Nothing in the blurb is untold, is there actually anything that hasn't been published before? |
| JimDuncanUK | 09 Apr 2019 11:01 a.m. PST |
Within the last year or so I have read a book about the post Waterloo fighting but I can't remember the books title. It may have been a kindle version and I will have removed it from my library. I will try and backtrack it. |
| JimDuncanUK | 09 Apr 2019 11:18 a.m. PST |
It was probably this one. link
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| MaggieC70 | 09 Apr 2019 12:14 p.m. PST |
It has been my experience, and that of several other folks, that any book with "untold story," "the truth about…," "never-before-published," "never=before-seen archival documents," and similar bits of unvarnished--and fallacious--hyperbole plastered on the cover, the blurb on the back, or in any publicity releases is almost always not worth one's money or time. And a few of them are frauds, cobbled together from cherry-picked sources to sustain the author's fevered theory of whatever lives in his imagination. |
 Mserafin | 09 Apr 2019 1:33 p.m. PST |
""Within the last year or so I have read a book about the post Waterloo fighting" Possibly Andrew Field's "Waterloo – Rout and Retreat?" |
 ColCampbell | 09 Apr 2019 1:43 p.m. PST |
John G. Gallaher's 1976 biography of Louis Davout, The Iron Marshal, A Biography of Louis N. Davout, has a small section in the penultimate chapter "The Minister of War" about the actions around Paris immediately after Napoleon's final abdication. That is the only time I've heard of such operations, always thinking that the French army basically dissolved after Waterloo. If the original poster's book reference is any good, then it could fill in more details about those operations. Only time will tell. Jim |
| deadhead | 09 Apr 2019 2:09 p.m. PST |
Mserafin is absolutely right. Field's book covers this in great detail. The remarkable thing is how the army did manage to rally, probably to some degree around the significant nucleus preserved by Grouchy. |
| Dave Jackson | 09 Apr 2019 2:58 p.m. PST |
There are 2 which cover this "race to Paris": 1) the battle of wavre and Grouchy's retreat by W.Hyde Kelly 2) Waves, Plancenoit and the race to Paris by Hofshroer |
| 15th Hussar | 09 Apr 2019 7:14 p.m. PST |
Well, there was Daumesnil's Stubborn if almost completely bloodless defense of Vincenne's and environs until Davout intervened via despatched orders. |
| Musketballs | 09 Apr 2019 9:02 p.m. PST |
link Le Blocus de Vincennes en 1815 |
| 15th Hussar | 10 Apr 2019 4:46 p.m. PST |
Great find, Musketballs, it compliments my Daumesnil biographies quite nicely! |
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