‘I am here and I am here to stay’: the death and burial of soldiers with cholera during the Crimean War (1854–56)
Journal: Human Remains and Violence An Interdisciplinary Journal
Year: 2019

Based on a study of intersecting French archives (those of the Val de Grâce Hospital, the Service Historique de la Défense and the Archives Diplomatiques), and with the support of numerous printed sources, this article focuses on the handling of the bodies of French soldiers who died of cholera during the Crimean War (1854–56). As a continuation of studies done by historians Luc Capdevila and Danièle Voldman, the aim here is to consider how the diseased corpses of these soldiers reveal both the