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village devastated You know the sort of historian who is always ready to denounce myths, legends and folk tales? Some would have you believe that most stories in the oral tradition are pure invention, on the grounds that they are found everywhere - with slight variations - throughout the territory of the Vendée Wars. It's a very slender argument for discounting such testimony. |
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It's a pity the author took this easy route for his source, because he has reproduced other real - even historic - places throughout the book with great accuracy, just as they appeared in 1793 (the entrances to Thouars and Bressuire, for example). As a result, our myth-destroying historians will have great fun claiming that this comic-strip depicts fictitious places where memories are created and invented at every turn, and that memory itself, therefore, is a false sentiment.
