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		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables, Volume 2: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo, Chapter 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right&lt;br /&gt; (Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 18: Recru...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Les Misérables, Volume 2: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo, Chapter 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; (Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 18: Recru...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les Mis&amp;amp;eacute;rables, Volume 2: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo, Chapter 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 18: Recrudescence du droit divin)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==General notes on this chapter==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==French text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Fin de la dictature. Tout un syst&amp;amp;egrave;me d'Europe croula.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
L'empire s'affaissa dans une ombre qui ressembla &amp;amp;agrave; celle du monde romain&lt;br /&gt;
expirant. On revit de l'ab&amp;amp;icirc;me comme au temps des barbares. Seulement la&lt;br /&gt;
barbarie de 1815, qu'il faut nommer de son petit nom, la&lt;br /&gt;
contre-r&amp;amp;eacute;volution, avait peu d'haleine, s'essouffla vite, et resta&lt;br /&gt;
court. L'empire, avouons-le, fut pleur&amp;amp;eacute;, et pleur&amp;amp;eacute; par des yeux&lt;br /&gt;
h&amp;amp;eacute;ro&amp;amp;iuml;ques. Si la gloire est dans le glaive fait sceptre, l'empire avait&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; la gloire m&amp;amp;ecirc;me. Il avait r&amp;amp;eacute;pandu sur la terre toute la lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re que&lt;br /&gt;
la tyrannie peut donner; lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re sombre. Disons plus: lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re obscure.&lt;br /&gt;
Compar&amp;amp;eacute;e au vrai jour, c'est de la nuit. Cette disparition de la nuit&lt;br /&gt;
fit l'effet d'une &amp;amp;eacute;clipse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Louis XVIII rentra dans Paris. Les danses en rond du 8 juillet&lt;br /&gt;
effac&amp;amp;egrave;rent les enthousiasmes du 20 mars. Le Corse devint l'antith&amp;amp;egrave;se du&lt;br /&gt;
B&amp;amp;eacute;arnais. Le drapeau du d&amp;amp;ocirc;me des Tuileries fut blanc. L'exil tr&amp;amp;ocirc;na. La&lt;br /&gt;
table de sapin de Hartwell prit place devant le fauteuil fleurdelys&amp;amp;eacute; de&lt;br /&gt;
Louis XIV. On parla de Bouvines et de Fontenoy comme d'hier, Austerlitz&lt;br /&gt;
ayant vieilli. L'autel et le tr&amp;amp;ocirc;ne fraternis&amp;amp;egrave;rent majestueusement. Une&lt;br /&gt;
des formes les plus incontest&amp;amp;eacute;es du salut de la soci&amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; au dix-neuvi&amp;amp;egrave;me&lt;br /&gt;
si&amp;amp;egrave;cle s'&amp;amp;eacute;tablit sur la France et sur le continent. L'Europe prit la&lt;br /&gt;
cocarde blanche. Trestaillon fut c&amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;egrave;bre. La devise ''non pluribus impar''&lt;br /&gt;
reparut dans des rayons de pierre figurant un soleil sur la fa&amp;amp;ccedil;ade de la&lt;br /&gt;
caserne du quai d'Orsay. O&amp;amp;ugrave; il y avait eu une garde imp&amp;amp;eacute;riale, il y eut&lt;br /&gt;
une maison rouge. L'arc du carrousel, tout charg&amp;amp;eacute; de victoires mal&lt;br /&gt;
port&amp;amp;eacute;es, d&amp;amp;eacute;pays&amp;amp;eacute; dans ces nouveaut&amp;amp;eacute;s, un peu honteux peut-&amp;amp;ecirc;tre de&lt;br /&gt;
Marengo et d'Arcole, se tira d'affaire avec la statue du duc&lt;br /&gt;
d'Angoul&amp;amp;ecirc;me. Le cimeti&amp;amp;egrave;re de la Madeleine, redoutable fosse commune de&lt;br /&gt;
93, se couvrit de marbre et de jaspe, les os de Louis XVI et de&lt;br /&gt;
Marie-Antoinette &amp;amp;eacute;tant dans cette poussi&amp;amp;egrave;re. Dans le foss&amp;amp;eacute; de Vincennes,&lt;br /&gt;
un cippe s&amp;amp;eacute;pulcral sortit de terre, rappelant que le duc d'Enghien &amp;amp;eacute;tait&lt;br /&gt;
mort dans le mois m&amp;amp;ecirc;me o&amp;amp;ugrave; Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; couronn&amp;amp;eacute;. Le pape Pie VII,&lt;br /&gt;
qui avait fait ce sacre tr&amp;amp;egrave;s pr&amp;amp;egrave;s de cette mort, b&amp;amp;eacute;nit tranquillement la&lt;br /&gt;
chute comme il avait b&amp;amp;eacute;ni l'&amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;eacute;vation. Il y eut &amp;amp;agrave; Schoenbrunn une petite&lt;br /&gt;
ombre &amp;amp;acirc;g&amp;amp;eacute;e de quatre ans qu'il fut s&amp;amp;eacute;ditieux d'appeler le roi de Rome.&lt;br /&gt;
Et ces choses se sont faites, et ces rois ont repris leurs tr&amp;amp;ocirc;nes, et le&lt;br /&gt;
ma&amp;amp;icirc;tre de l'Europe a &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; mis dans une cage, et l'ancien r&amp;amp;eacute;gime est&lt;br /&gt;
devenu le nouveau, et toute l'ombre et toute la lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re de la terre ont&lt;br /&gt;
chang&amp;amp;eacute; de place, parce que, dans l'apr&amp;amp;egrave;s-midi d'un jour d'&amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute;, un p&amp;amp;acirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
a dit &amp;amp;agrave; un Prussien dans un bois: passez par ici et non par l&amp;amp;agrave;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Ce 1815 fut une sorte d'avril lugubre. Les vieilles r&amp;amp;eacute;alit&amp;amp;eacute;s malsaines&lt;br /&gt;
et v&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;neuses se couvrirent d'apparences neuves. Le mensonge &amp;amp;eacute;pousa&lt;br /&gt;
1789, le droit divin se masqua d'une charte, les fictions se firent&lt;br /&gt;
constitutionnelles, les pr&amp;amp;eacute;jug&amp;amp;eacute;s, les superstitions et les&lt;br /&gt;
arri&amp;amp;egrave;re-pens&amp;amp;eacute;es, avec l'article 14 au c&amp;amp;oelig;ur, se vernirent de&lt;br /&gt;
lib&amp;amp;eacute;ralisme. Changement de peau des serpents.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
L'homme avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; la fois agrandi et amoindri par Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on. L'id&amp;amp;eacute;al,&lt;br /&gt;
sous ce r&amp;amp;egrave;gne de la mati&amp;amp;egrave;re splendide, avait re&amp;amp;ccedil;u le nom &amp;amp;eacute;trange&lt;br /&gt;
d'id&amp;amp;eacute;ologie. Grave imprudence d'un grand homme, tourner en d&amp;amp;eacute;rision&lt;br /&gt;
l'avenir. Les peuples cependant, cette chair &amp;amp;agrave; canon si amoureuse du&lt;br /&gt;
canonnier, le cherchaient des yeux. O&amp;amp;ugrave; est-il? Que fait-il? ''Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on&lt;br /&gt;
est mort'', disait un passant &amp;amp;agrave; un invalide de Marengo et de&lt;br /&gt;
Waterloo.&amp;amp;mdash;''Lui mort!'' s'&amp;amp;eacute;cria ce soldat, ''vous le connaissez bien!'' Les&lt;br /&gt;
imaginations d&amp;amp;eacute;ifiaient cet homme terrass&amp;amp;eacute;. Le fond de l'Europe, apr&amp;amp;egrave;s&lt;br /&gt;
Waterloo, fut t&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;breux. Quelque chose d'&amp;amp;eacute;norme resta longtemps vide par&lt;br /&gt;
l'&amp;amp;eacute;vanouissement de Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Les rois se mirent dans ce vide. La vieille Europe en profita pour se&lt;br /&gt;
reformer. Il y eut une Sainte-Alliance. Belle-Alliance, avait dit&lt;br /&gt;
d'avance le champ fatal de Waterloo.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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En pr&amp;amp;eacute;sence et en face de cette antique Europe refaite, les lin&amp;amp;eacute;aments&lt;br /&gt;
d'une France nouvelle s'&amp;amp;eacute;bauch&amp;amp;egrave;rent. L'avenir, raill&amp;amp;eacute; par l'empereur,&lt;br /&gt;
fit son entr&amp;amp;eacute;e. Il avait sur le front cette &amp;amp;eacute;toile, Libert&amp;amp;eacute;. Les yeux&lt;br /&gt;
ardents des jeunes g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;rations se tourn&amp;amp;egrave;rent vers lui. Chose singuli&amp;amp;egrave;re,&lt;br /&gt;
on s'&amp;amp;eacute;prit en m&amp;amp;ecirc;me temps de cet avenir, Libert&amp;amp;eacute;, et de ce pass&amp;amp;eacute;,&lt;br /&gt;
Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on. La d&amp;amp;eacute;faite avait grandi le vaincu. Bonaparte tomb&amp;amp;eacute; semblait&lt;br /&gt;
plus haut que Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on debout. Ceux qui avaient triomph&amp;amp;eacute; eurent peur.&lt;br /&gt;
L'Angleterre le fit garder par Hudson Lowe et la France le fit guetter&lt;br /&gt;
par Montchenu. Ses bras crois&amp;amp;eacute;s devinrent l'inqui&amp;amp;eacute;tude des tr&amp;amp;ocirc;nes.&lt;br /&gt;
Alexandre le nommait: mon insomnie. Cet effroi venait de la quantit&amp;amp;eacute; de&lt;br /&gt;
r&amp;amp;eacute;volution qu'il avait en lui. C'est ce qui explique et excuse le&lt;br /&gt;
lib&amp;amp;eacute;ralisme bonapartiste. Ce fant&amp;amp;ocirc;me donnait le tremblement au vieux&lt;br /&gt;
monde. Les rois r&amp;amp;eacute;gn&amp;amp;egrave;rent mal &amp;amp;agrave; leur aise, avec le rocher de&lt;br /&gt;
Sainte-H&amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;egrave;ne &amp;amp;agrave; l'horizon.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Pendant que Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on agonisait &amp;amp;agrave; Longwood, les soixante mille hommes&lt;br /&gt;
tomb&amp;amp;eacute;s dans le champ de Waterloo pourrirent tranquillement, et quelque&lt;br /&gt;
chose de leur paix se r&amp;amp;eacute;pandit dans le monde. Le congr&amp;amp;egrave;s de Vienne en&lt;br /&gt;
fit les trait&amp;amp;eacute;s de 1815, et l'Europe nomma cela la restauration.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Voil&amp;amp;agrave; ce que c'est que Waterloo.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Mais qu'importe &amp;amp;agrave; l'infini? Toute cette temp&amp;amp;ecirc;te, tout ce nuage, cette&lt;br /&gt;
guerre, puis cette paix, toute cette ombre, ne troubla pas un moment la&lt;br /&gt;
lueur de l'&amp;amp;oelig;il immense devant lequel un puceron sautant d'un brin&lt;br /&gt;
d'herbe &amp;amp;agrave; l'autre &amp;amp;eacute;gale l'aigle volant de clocher en clocher aux tours&lt;br /&gt;
de Notre-Dame.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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==English text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away.&lt;br /&gt;
     &lt;br /&gt;
The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as it&lt;br /&gt;
expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; only&lt;br /&gt;
the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the&lt;br /&gt;
counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and&lt;br /&gt;
halted short. The Empire was bewept,&amp;amp;mdash;let us acknowledge the fact,&amp;amp;mdash;and&lt;br /&gt;
bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a&lt;br /&gt;
sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the&lt;br /&gt;
earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say&lt;br /&gt;
more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This&lt;br /&gt;
disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July&lt;br /&gt;
effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the&lt;br /&gt;
antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was&lt;br /&gt;
white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front of&lt;br /&gt;
the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy were&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding day, Austerlitz&lt;br /&gt;
having become antiquated. The altar and the throne fraternized&lt;br /&gt;
majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health of society in&lt;br /&gt;
the nineteenth century was established over France, and over the&lt;br /&gt;
continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was celebrated.&lt;br /&gt;
The device non pluribus impar re-appeared on the stone rays representing a&lt;br /&gt;
sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai d'Orsay. Where there had&lt;br /&gt;
been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red house. The Arc du Carrousel,&lt;br /&gt;
all laden with badly borne victories, thrown out of its element among&lt;br /&gt;
these novelties, a little ashamed, it may be, of Marengo and Arcola,&lt;br /&gt;
extricated itself from its predicament with the statue of the Duc&lt;br /&gt;
d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, a terrible pauper's grave in&lt;br /&gt;
1793, was covered with jasper and marble, since the bones of Louis XVI.&lt;br /&gt;
and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth,&lt;br /&gt;
recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very month&lt;br /&gt;
when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the&lt;br /&gt;
coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the&lt;br /&gt;
fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was a&lt;br /&gt;
little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of Rome.&lt;br /&gt;
And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the&lt;br /&gt;
master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became the new&lt;br /&gt;
regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place,&lt;br /&gt;
because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a&lt;br /&gt;
Prussian in the forest, &amp;quot;Go this way, and not that!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and poisonous&lt;br /&gt;
realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded 1789; the right&lt;br /&gt;
divine was masked under a charter; fictions became constitutional;&lt;br /&gt;
prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with Article 14 in the&lt;br /&gt;
heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the serpent's change of&lt;br /&gt;
skin.&lt;br /&gt;
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Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this&lt;br /&gt;
reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of&lt;br /&gt;
ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future into&lt;br /&gt;
derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of&lt;br /&gt;
the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is he doing?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Napoleon is dead,&amp;quot; said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo and Waterloo.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;He dead!&amp;quot; cried the soldier; &amp;quot;you don't know him.&amp;quot; Imagination distrusted&lt;br /&gt;
this man, even when overthrown. The depths of Europe were full of darkness&lt;br /&gt;
after Waterloo. Something enormous remained long empty through Napoleon's&lt;br /&gt;
disappearance.&lt;br /&gt;
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The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by it to&lt;br /&gt;
undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; Belle-Alliance, Beautiful&lt;br /&gt;
Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance.&lt;br /&gt;
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In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the features&lt;br /&gt;
of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the Emperor had&lt;br /&gt;
rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, Liberty. The&lt;br /&gt;
glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. Singular fact!&lt;br /&gt;
people were, at one and the same time, in love with the future, Liberty,&lt;br /&gt;
and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the vanquished greater.&lt;br /&gt;
Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect. Those who had&lt;br /&gt;
triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by Hudson Lowe, and France&lt;br /&gt;
had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms became a source of&lt;br /&gt;
uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him &amp;quot;my sleeplessness.&amp;quot; This&lt;br /&gt;
terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in&lt;br /&gt;
him. That is what explains and excuses Bonapartist liberalism. This&lt;br /&gt;
phantom caused the old world to tremble. The kings reigned, but ill at&lt;br /&gt;
their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena on the horizon.&lt;br /&gt;
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While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the&lt;br /&gt;
sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly&lt;br /&gt;
rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. The&lt;br /&gt;
Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this the&lt;br /&gt;
Restoration.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is what Waterloo was.&lt;br /&gt;
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But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud,&lt;br /&gt;
that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a moment&lt;br /&gt;
the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from one blade&lt;br /&gt;
of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to belfry on the&lt;br /&gt;
towers of Notre Dame.&lt;br /&gt;
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