I've been a reconstitueur for many years, or at least 40 years.
For more than 15 years now, I've been doing everything that is between my real and my real self in Belgium.
And since I was 2 years old, I'm currently 42 years old.
And I'm passionate about history, that's why I do this kind of aggravation, this kind of bivouac.
Because it's a different life, it's also an honor to all these people
who are dead for us, for the country, who have given us what we currently have.
When I was little, my aunt used to tell me,
once I put you in there, she put me in there.
And then I was passionate a lot about history.
And it made me stay in there.
I was in love with the time of Napoleon, at the age of 10.
At the 13th centenary of the Frequence Habit in Normandy,
because the National Republic Guard had come,
and a detachment of the National Republic Guard, standing, dressed in empires.
And since I was 10 years old, I've been passionate about the empire.
And I had to wait until 2005 to get back to the 15th century.
It's a part of several generations, like Ligny,
almost a lot of battles.
This kind of bivouac really receives us.
When we spend two days like that, on the weekend, we live in the grand air,
we enjoy it, we're friends, we live this story again.
And it's very hard to leave, I'll say, on Sunday night, when the bivouac is over,
to fall back into a reality that, in short, no longer suits us.
That's why we live in this kind of bivouac.
We don't ignore that a simple battle won by people who, at first,
were soldiers, but not necessarily brave,
who defended themselves to win a battle,
and that the whole history of the empire and its surroundings depended on this battle.
It's still phenomenal.
It was a few guys who came from everywhere, they used batteries here,
and they filled their missions.
That's the most important thing, despite the difficulties, despite the losses,
they filled their missions with things that we're trying to convey today,
by always trusting the post on the day of the ceremony to be present,
in our attitude, in our way of doing, in our outfit and in our rules.
Get out of the way!
On Sunday night, when the bivouac is over,
on Sunday night, when the bivouac is over,
