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Still on my #Doubs Challenge. Tagged book is a play imagining a conversation between Napoléon Bonaparte and Toussaint Louverture right before his death at the Fort de Joux where he was imprisoned following the Haiti Revolution. I wish it had been a bit better. This is the only fiction work I found about Toussaint Louverture in Joux, which is surprising but there you are. Beggars can't be choosers.

September 1944 in a village in Eastern France: nazis are retreating & neverending columns of soldiers pass through Ferdinand's village. One soldier commands him to give him his bicycle. Only he needs it, worked hard for it. In the heat of the moment, he injures & ties up this almost child. The book describes the quandary & subsequent actions. An easy read (linguistically, not psychologically) that makes you think.
1 for the 2025 #Doubs challenge

In 2025, I will be reading books set in, or written by authors with a strong connection to the #Doubs département (nb 25), starting with the tagged title by Louis Pergaud, whose complete works I found on my grandparents' shelves when we emptied their house. In the book was a dedication dated 31-01-1975 I hadn't noticed before 😲

It received the Prix Goncourt in 1910, 5 years before Pergaud's death near Verdun, during the First World War.