The Field Physician

In 1829, on a pretty spring morning, a man about fifty years old was riding a mountainous path that led to a large village near the Grande-Chartreuse. This man, Commander Genestas is looking for another one: Mr. Benassis, country doctor and mayor of this village. The meeting is taking place, but why is the commander presenting himself under a false identity? Why did a man as brilliant as the doctor, a stranger to this region, come here to bury himself? As these two men develop an unwavering friendship, each will eventually reveal themselves and tell the story of their lives. Balzac makes us here one of his most beautiful rural and economic frescoes. Emotions and feelings are there.Back cover of the bookletThe infantryman stood up from above his haystack, staring at the assembly with that dark look, full of misery, events and suffering that distinguishes the old soldiers... After pushing his grey hair back on one side of his forehead to discover it, he carried his head to the sky in order to rise to the height of the gigantic story he was about to tell. - You see, my friends, Napoleon was born in Corsica, which is a French island, heated by the Italian sun, where everything boils like in a furnace, and where people kill each other, from father to son, about nothing: an idea they have. To start you the extraordinary of the thing...