La invasión o El loco Yégof

In the quiet valleys of the Vosges, the hamlet of Charmes clings to the river Sarre, its timber roofs and tangled evergreens painting a picture of rustic serenity. Here lives Juan Claudio Hullin, a stout former soldier with a genial smile, who now tends his modest farm and cares for his adopted daughter Luisa. Through evenings by the sawmill fire, he recounts the grand campaigns of Sambre, the Mosa, Italy and Egypt, keeping the memory of Napoleon alive among the locals.

As winter approaches, rumors of the great 1814 invasion begin to stir the sleepy community, and the looming threat forces Hullin to confront both his past glories and his responsibilities to family and neighbors. His relationships with the aging farmer Catalina Lefèvre and the young farmhand Gaspar, who is also Luisa’s lover, become the emotional core of the story. The narrative blends vivid landscape, folk wisdom, and the tension of an impending war, inviting listeners to experience the lives of ordinary people caught in the sweep of history.