Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 581 CHAPTER XV CAMBRONNE If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, on ...

582 Les Miserables gomont, to the sunken road of Ohain, to Grouchy’s delay, to Blucher’s arrival, to be Irony itself in the tomb ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 583 leon, and only Cambronne remains,— only this earthworm is left to protest. He will protest. ...

584 Les Miserables dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formi- dable remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 585 CHAPTER XVI QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to th ...

586 Les Miserables In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men amounts to nothing. If we take Water ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 587 therefore, speak of Waterloo coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is d ...

588 Les Miserables sides some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he d ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 589 In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wel l i ng ton. Waterloo is a bat ...

590 Les Miserables to the English people. If trophy there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of Waterloo wo ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 591 denseness the carnage arose. The following calculation has been made, and the fol- lowing pr ...

592 Les Miserables ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in the clouds and in the shadows; all tho ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 593 CHAPTER XVII IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? There exists a very respectable liberal scho ...

594 Les Miserables order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great re- gret of the conquerors. It is because revolution ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 595 In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Wa- terloo; that which smiled in Wellin ...

596 Les Miserables CHAPTER XVIII A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crum- bled awa ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 597 Hartwell’s pine table took its place in front of the fleur-de- lys-strewn throne of Louis XI ...

598 Les Miserables all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer’s ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 599 The future, which the Emperor had rallied, made its en- try. On its brow it bore the star, L ...

600 Les Miserables CHAPTER XIX THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT Let us return—it is a necessity in this book—to that fatal battle-field ...