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100 1 _aClaretie, Jules,
_d1840-1913
245 1 0 _aRécits héroïques
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-09
505 0 _aLe drapeau -- Le volontaire -- L'invalide -- La vision.
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)
520 _a"Récits héroïques" by Jules Claretie is a collection of historical short stories written in the late 19th century. It likely gathers episodes of courage and patriotic sacrifice, with the first tale focusing on Napoleonic veterans—especially two aging captains—whose lives revolve around honor, memory, and the regimental flag. The opening story, Le Drapeau, portrays Captain Fougerel in the quiet town of Vernon exalting the sacred meaning of the tricolor. He and his friend Captain Malapeyre, old comrades of the Imperial Guard, once saved their regiment’s banner at Waterloo by breaking the staff and burying the silk under fire. Years later they read a Berlin notice claiming the Prussians unearthed and display that very flag at Potsdam, shattering their solace. Silent and resolute, they renounce small comforts, save every coin, and set out to retrieve or destroy the trophy. On the road Malapeyre falls gravely ill, dies in Cologne after a lucid plea that Fougerel finish the mission, and is buried far from home. Grief-stricken but bound by his oath, Fougerel presses on to Berlin and then to Potsdam, aflame with the single purpose of reclaiming the honor tied to the lost standard. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Hachette, 1923
653 _aFrench fiction
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aWar stories, French
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/d2b9378c-a6f5-4560-88b0-3a83a078bc9d
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77202
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