Les misérables, Volume 2J. Hetzel, 1887 |
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army asked battle battle of Waterloo began Blücher Boulatruelle boulevard breathe bucket called Cambronne candle cemetery CHAPTER child coffin continued convent corner Cosette Cosette's cuirassiers darkness dead doll door dress English entered Eponine and Azelma eyes face fancied Father Madeleine Fauchelevent Fauvent fell felt four francs French Gagny garden gate Genappe gloomy grave-digger ground hand head heard horses Hougomont hour hundred Javert Jean Valjean June 18 La Haye Sainte landlady light little girl Little Picpus looked Louis XVIII Madame Thénardier mistress Mont St Montfermeil mysterious Napoleon night nuns old woman once Paris passed pocket poor prioress reverend mother road Rue Droit-mur Rue Polonceau sabers Sainte seemed seen shadow side silence sleep soul spot stone strange stranger street thing thought took Toulon trees trembled turned voice walked wall watch Waterloo Wellington window wood
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Page 38 - Belgian carbineers; the cuirassiers, attacked on the flank and in front, before and behind, by infantry and cavalry, were compelled to make a front on all sides. But what did they care ? They were a whirlwind ; their bravery became indescribable. In addition...
Page 59 - Rivoli — all this is grand. Wellington was tenacious; that was his merit, and we do not deny it to him, but the lowest of his privates and his troopers was quite as solid as he, and the iron soldier is as good as the iron duke. For our part, all our glorification is offered to the English soldier, the English army, the English nation; and if there must be a trophy, it is to England that this trophy is owing. The Waterloo column would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it raised to...
Page 59 - English nation; and if there must be a trophy, it is to England that this trophy is owing. The Waterloo column would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it raised to the clouds the statue of a people. But this great England will be irritated by what we are writing here; for she still has feudal illusions, after her 1688, and the French 1789. This people believes in inheritance and hierarchy, and while no other excels it in power and glory, it esteems itself as a nation and not as a...
Page 35 - ... their riders. There was no means of escaping ; the entire column was one huge projectile. The force acquired to crush the English, crushed the French, and the inexorable ravine 'would not yield till it was filled up. Men and horses rolled into it pell-mell, crushing each other, and making one large charnel-house of the gulf, and when this grave was full of living men, the rest passed over them. Nearly one-third of the Dubois brigade rolled into this abyss. This commenced the loss of the battle.
Page 35 - No; on account of God. Bonaparte, victor at Waterloo, did not harmonize with the law of the nineteenth century. Another series of facts was preparing, in which Napoleon had no longer a place: the ill will of events had been displayed long previously.
Page 47 - Did this vertigo, this terror, this overthrow of the greatest bravery that ever astonished history, take place without a cause ? No. The shadow of a mighty right hand is cast over Waterloo ; it is the day of destiny, and the force which is above man produced that day. Hence the teiTor, hence all those great souls laying down their swords.
Page 60 - ... from the tomb, the vague clamor of the phantom battle. These shadows are grenadiers ; these flashes are cuirassiers ; this skeleton is Napoleon ; this skeleton is Wellington ; all this is non-existent, and yet still combats, and the ravines are stained purple, and the trees rustle, and there is fury even in the clouds and in the darkness, while all the stern heights — Mont St. Jean, Hougomont, Frischemont, Papelotte, and Plancenoit — seem confusedly crowned by hosts of spectres exterminating...
Page 31 - Moskova by the heavy cavalry : Murat was missing, but Ney was there. It seemed as if this mass had become a monster and had but one soul; each squadron undulated and swelled like the rings of a polyp.
Page 35 - Long live the emperor!" appeared above the crest. The whole of this cavalry debouched on the plateau, and it was like the commencement of an earthquake. All at once, terrible to relate, the head of the column of cuirassiers facing the English left reared with a fearful clamor. On reaching the culminating point of the crest, furious and eager to make their exterminating dash on the English squares and guns, the cuirassiers noticed between them and the English a trench, a grave.
Page 13 - ... moment, a grove, a ravine, can stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its retreat. He who quits the field is beaten, hence the necessity devolving on the responsible leader of examining the most insignificant clump of trees and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, now called the plain of Waterloo.