‘My gunners will burn your houses, my soldiers will pillage them’: what French people were singing about when they sang about Napoleon
Fifty years after his death, almost the only song that French people still sung about Napoleon retold his conquest of the city of Mantua in 1797. ‘Le bombardement de Mantoue’ is an example of a popular European folk genre, the siege song. Siege songs use the metaphor of a violent wooer and a relucta...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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