The Russian campaign, after Minard: a homage in motion

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© 2026 Pascal Thomet. The texts, the drawings and the animation are under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: share them, translate and adapt them, with credit, without commercial use, under the same license. The voice is all rights reserved: listen to it here, do not reuse it. The code is under the MIT license; the texts and the data it holds stay under the terms above. Minard's map, his figures and the paintings are in the public domain. The data tables are Michael Friendly's digitization of Minard's figures (the R package HistData, GPL), fetched from Rdatasets, used with attribution. The music: Chopin's Prelude op. 28 no. 4, played by Ivan Ilić (CC BY 3.0), and his Nocturnes in E minor (op. posth. 72) and in C minor (B. 108, played by Diana Hughes), recorded by Musopen, in the public domain; the wind, a recording in the public domain (CC0); all from Wikimedia Commons.

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