War and Peace Volume 3 Book 9 Chapter 5

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In which an inspection of the stern and uncompromising Marshal Davout reveals the harsh mechanisms by which power is maintained and shown to those beneath it, even amidst the weariness of war. The arrival of a Russian envoy at the French-occupied town of Vílna brings a moment’s encounter with the great Emperor Napoleon himself, framed by the swift reversals of fortune that war imposes.

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