2023-12-06 19:44:00
Bart Van Loo was the guest of RTL info Signatures this Wednesday, December 6. Belgian author whose reputation is well established, he is also a great connoisseur of Napoleon. A work on the emperor, signed by his pen, has just been released. On the RTL info set, the author tried to explain what would have changed for Belgium if Napoleon had won Waterloo.
“Napoleon, the shadow of the revolution”, is the title of the latest book by Bart Van Loo, who made the emperor the hero of his writings. A writer particularly read and appreciated in the French-speaking world, the author was the guest of RTL info Signatures this Wednesday.
Asked about his choices and his lines of work, Bart Van Loo took part in questions from Christophe Deborsu and Luc Gilson. Among these, a crucile, which tickles more than one curiosity among history lovers of the country: what would have happened for Belgium if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815? “Let’s fantasize a little”pleasant Bart Van Loo. “He won at Waterloo, two years later, he defeated Wellington at Oxford, he annexed Great Britain and divided it into 22 departments. America, the United States, Africa, China… We then followed I’m going to speak French from New York to Beijing! I know you’re happy, but this is a dream!” The Belgian writer refers to the book “Napoélon and the Conquest of the World”, a fiction written by Louis Geoffroy in 1836, in which the emperor is the lucky victor. “It’s a dream still shared today, but a useless, phantasmagorical dream…”
What puts Bart Van Loo on this track is the reality of History; notably the weakness of the Napoleonic army, and the failing health of the emperor. “IF he had won Waterloo, if yes and if, there were lots of great armies that were ready to defeat him once and for all”, specifies the author. In other words, Waterloo was indeed in its final battle. “This is the end point, game over.”
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