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Jean Teulé, may the best lose

The writer Jean Teulé publishes his novel "Agincourt in rainy weather" © Mehdi Benkler

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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After “Crénom, Baudelaire!

Jean Teulé returns with his verve and his humor, this time revisiting one of the greatest defeats in the history of France, the battle of Agincourt.  

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The Battle of Agincourt, which took place on October 25, 1415, is called a stampede.

Or rather a rout, a fiasco or a beating.

A bide, a rouste or a piquette, a debacle, a thaw or a beating, a spanking, a thrashing or a jerk.

The French language is rich when it comes to describing a defeat!

The writer Jean Teulé has chosen to tell us – with his biting verve, his mocking irony and his caustic humor – one of the worst in the history of France.

Face to face, an English army - starved, weakened by dysentery - and on the other a French army - in excess, bloated with sufficiency and weighed down by stupidity.

Against all expectations, the first will dominate the second, thanks to a series of blunders and a muddy ground.

"Agincourt in rainy weather", the new novel by

is published by Miallet-Barrault.

Report: Marjorie Bertin

met the singer Alain Chamfort on the occasion of the release of his album “Dandy Symphonique”.

He will be in concert the same evening at the Grand Rex.

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