![]() To be honest, I was not TOO sure how the "voice" of a woman like that would resonate. Did I mention that she was 8 months pregnant at the time? Anyway, she eventually returned to France, was decorated by Napoleon and, six months later, was back in the front line with her regiment. Oh, and they delivered the baby she was carrying too. ![]() The Russians took her (and her children) prisoner, amputated her arm. She fought the Cossacks off with a sword for more than half an hour, by which time her right arm was shattered and she'd been speared by lances several times. That caused her particular concern because she happened to have her three small children alongside her too - which wasn't hugely unusual. She was cut off by a group of Russian Cossacks. Kintelberger was a cantinière with Napoleon's army (like hundreds of others) serving shots of brandy to the men of her regiment while they were actually in the thick of the fighting at Austerlitz. And I based the character of Marianne on the real-life exploits of a woman called Madeleine Kintelberger. ![]() This is a story about one of the bloodiest battles in history, of course. ![]()
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