Thiers

Gender

male

First appears

Book 1 · Ch. 196

Books

1

Thiers appears in the novel as a historian whose accounts of Napoleon’s actions in Moscow, the campaign, and the pursuit of the Russian army are repeatedly questioned or invoked. His eloquent narratives— including his treatment of events at the Foundling Hospital and the dead at the gate—stand as examples of the stories historians construct around power and war. Identified as a Bonapartist historian, he remains a textual presence rather than a character with a dramatized personal arc.