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The Military Necessity

novel by Vigny

Also known as: “Servitude et grandeur militaires”

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In Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny: Maturity and disillusionment.
Vigny’s novel Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835; “Servitude and Military Greatness”; Eng. trans. The Military Necessity) is also a consultation. The book’s three stories, linked by personal comment, deal with the dignity and suffering of the soldier, who is obliged by his profession to kill yet who…
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