Summary[]
The Grande Armée is the main antagonist of the 3rd book of the Land of Stories: The Grimm Warning. They are a fictionalized potrayal of the Grande Armée that existed during the Napoleonic Wars. In the Land of Stories, a small fraction of the Grande Armée that got trapped in time is now in the Land of Stories, planning to conquer the kingdoms for France.
History[]
The Grande Armée was founded in 1805 and was the more organized version of the armies during the French Revolutionary Wars. It became the most powerful army in Europe as it defeated the Holy Romans/Prussians, Austrians, Italians, and Russians during victories like the famous Battle of Austerlitz and Jena. It reached the height of its power in 1812, and by then, the ambitions were reaching to new heights. The Grande Armée was planning to invade Russia, Austria, and even Egypt (Note: This is historically inaccurate). However, a general named General Marquis was planning to invade somewhere far beyond the wildest dreams to get glory and fame, the Land of Stories.
Invasion of the Land of Stories[]
To learn how to access the portal which takes them to the Land of Stories. The Grand Armée under General Marquis kidnapped the Brothers Grimm (As well as Mother Goose), and tried to extract the portal location from the Brothers Grimm. Out of fear of getting killed, the Brothers Grimm told General Marquis the location of the portal, but they told the Grande Armée a portal that would take hundreds of years for them to escape it. And as a warning, the Brothers Grimm made a secret story as a riddle, warning anybody who understood it that the Grande Armée were going to invade the Land of Stories.
200 years later, the Grande Armée entered the Land of Stories, and decided to go to Pinocchio Prison for recruiting. Conner Bailey, who saw the return of the Armée, warned the Happily Ever Assembly of their return. In response, the royal families were put into a carriage that never left a trail and was secret and only people who saw it leaving can find its location. At Pinocchio Prison, they recruited most of the violent criminals, as well as a person named the Masked Man, who instructed them to go to the Northern Kingdom and get a dragon egg. The Grande Armée followed his advice. After collecting the egg from the Northern Kingdom, the Grande Armée invaded the Eastern Kingdom, killing many people and kidnapping many others so they can dig the canyon for the dragon to live in. While the Armée was raising the young dragon. The Grande Armée invaded the rest of the kingdoms. This led to both the civilians and the soldiers to band together and repel the invasions.
The invasion wasn't over yet however, The Armée found the royals due to a traitor named Rook Robins who informed about their location. The Armée went to the Fairy Kingdom to force the fairies into submission by burning the royals alive. However, Conner, his sister Alex, the Soldiers of the kingdoms, and the Fairies defeated the Armée as well as the the dragon and rescued the royal family. Most of the soldiers of the Grande Armée either died or got arrested, but some escaped with the Masked Man.
Ultimate fate of the Grande Armée[]
The Grande Armée remnants were with the Masked Man when he tried to convince the witches to join him on his war against humanity. However, they were soon rounded up by Alex and Conner and sent to Pinocchio Prison. While it was said that these remnants joined the Literary Army and the Masked Man when they destroyed the Land of Stories. They most likely got defeated by Conners Army of book characters along with the rest of the Literary Army.
While it is unknown on what happened to the rest of Grande Armee that stayed on Earth. They most likely shared the same fate of their Real Life counterparts who were finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo along with Napoleon himself.