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I Crossed the Beresina

on BBC Radio 3

The journal of a French singer, Madame Fusil , who escaped from Russia with Napoleon's Grande Armee.
Read by Jill Balcon
Compiled and translated by ANTONY BRETT-JAMES
Narrator Garard Green
Of the 120,000 who left Moscow on 19 October 1812 a mere 20,000 reached Poland. Madame Fusil was one of the few women among the survivors. She kept a diary of her experiences which has never before been translated into English.
' If I had not been abandoned as though suffocated on the snow. I should never have been rescued by Marshal Lefebvre and I should certainly have perished in the Beresina.' Producer HALLAM TENNYSON followed by an interlude

Contributors

Singer:
Madame Fusil
Read By:
Jill Balcon
Translated By:
Antony Brett-James
Producer:
Hallam Tennyson

BBC Radio 3

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