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How the dragon Dragon changed the history of France

August 05, 2022

01:15

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…

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.

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.

The Dragon Dragon is a well-defined, colorful character, more concerned with saving his ass and flattering those of others than with the fate of the Republic. Cowardly, cowardly, cowardly, Dragon passes through drops and bullets with a extraordinary oratorical talent, a cunning foolproof and also, it must be said, thanks to its anal skills that he practices as well with his second as with his captain, or even with one of the sons of Philippe Égalité (the future Louis-Philippe), ephemeral Republican king.

Burlesque

You find it difficult to follow, it is relatively normal, the Dragon Dragon has no equal for confuse the interlocutor. And that’s the driving force behind this particularly funny story, which revisits in a wacky and burlesque way historical facts, and highlights certain theories.




Thus, as a fine tactician, Danton would have bought the victory of Valmy by offering the Duke of Brunswick, the general-in-chief of the Prussian armies, a few French crown jewels fallen. And it is also said that Danton, Brunswigh, Kellerman and Dumouriez, the French generals, were members of the same Masonic lodge.

These theories obviously make historians wink, but there’s plenty to tell the tale for a screenwriter like Juncker who likes to rewrite history. He has just done so in “A General, Generals” on the episode of the Algiers putsch.

Series: Memoirs of the Dragon Dragon

Par
Nicolas Juncker and Simon Spruyt

Edited by The Lombard

64 p. – 15,95€

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The story is lively and hilarious, thanks in particular to the expressiveness of the drawing of the young Flemish author Simon Spruyt. The uniforms and the battlefields, he knows, since he was recently rewarded for “The drum of the Moskva”. In this frankly humorous register, he gives the story all the necessary class and lewdness.

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