Bourbaki Panorama Luzern

About this audio guide

This guide to the Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne follows Edouard Castres, a Red Cross volunteer years before he became the panorama's painter, as eighty-seven thousand exhausted French soldiers crossed into Switzerland in the bitter winter of eighteen seventy-one. It traces the strange, barely edible ration called the Bourbaki biscuit these men carried, and what Swiss villagers did when strangers who had just surrendered their weapons showed up hungry at their doors.