Vilnius, Lithuania/vilnius334
Previous | Home | NextBoth in Lithuanian (top) and in French (bottom), this plaque tells how author Stendal (pen name of Henri-Marie Beyle (1783-1842), who participated in the ill-fated Napoleonic campaign of 1812, stayed briefly in this house. In December of that year, Napoleon's tattered army in retreat from Moscow stumbled into Vilnius for rest before proceeding on to Paris. Recently mass graves have been unearthed in Vilnius of French soldiers who survived the frozen march from Russia but succumbed to exhaustion.
