The Invasion or Insane Yégof
the Invasion or Insane Yégof is a novel of Erckmann-Chatrian of 1862.
The novel is a village Fresque Populiste and Partisan E. In 1814, the Alliés beat Napoleon and penetrate in France, in particular while passing the Rhine. The resistance to the oppressor is organized in the the Vosges, where the armies have more evil to pass. And, in fact, this resistance obtains some successes. Composed of savage villagers, brigands and poachers, organized enough and patriotic to be able to take actions (not very expensive as men), these armed groups pose some problems with the invaders. But the treason of Insane Yégof will carry out resistance to its loss.
Erckmann and Chatrian wrote this novel more than fifty years after the defeat of Napoleon, and made this Vosgean resistance a stage of the Napoleonean epopee. The fanatic Patriotisme of these Village ois Alsaciens (being opposed to the Cossack S, with the Prussian , presented as of the monsters) is undoubtedly exaggerated compared to the reality of 1814. This Romance answers in fact a request of the Public of 1862, and constitutes an example of the “Napoleonean Littérature” (just as the work of Victor Hugo) which made it possible the reader S French to feel the heirs to a epopee, as well as Rome or the ancient Greece for example. In that, this novel is a Historical novel very in favor.
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