title: [The eagle and the louse: typhus in the Grand Army].
abstract: How is it that lice, such a common parasite, have shaken the Napoleonic empire? This paper, based on medical literature and on proven facts, is going to tell the history of such a "war pestilence", a "contagious typhus".
authors.forename: Henri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ducoulombier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history*; D008003:Phthiraptera; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000266:history*