August 05, 2022
01:15
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Nicolas Joncker and Simon Spruyt deliver their vision of history through a dragon of the revolution, cowardly, cowardly, cowardly, but crafty, clever and incidentally very, very focused on the buttocks…
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Valmy, September 20, 1792, one of the great feats of arms of the French Revolution and of the newly born republic. One of the first great victories of the new regime, at war against the rest of Europe, raised in particular by the royalist emigrants. A battle where an army of badly armed barefoot defeated the Prussians, one of the greatest military powers of the moment.
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And if this surprising and unexpected victory hid something, or some arrangements between friends, across borders… This is the starting point of this re-reading of the history of France and the first republican steps, made by Nicolas Juncker and Simon Spruyt. A particularly iconoclastic and earthy re-reading, carried out through the intermediary of the dragon (a horseman) Pierre-Marie Dragon.
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