Chapter 26
The French enter Moscow - with a translator, to ask where the army is - and cease being an army and become marauders. Even after leaving Moscow, they are never an army again, after looting Moscow. Tolstoy theories that Moscow is different from other occupied cities because it was abandoned by the inhabitants first, rather than welcoming the invaders, and so it burnt because it was in a position in which a city must burn.
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