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		<title>Historymaker: /* Textual notes */</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;This is the inscription:—&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160;  D. O. M.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; CY A ETE ECRASE&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160;  PAR MALHEUR&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; SOUS UN CHARIOT,&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; MONSIEUR BERNARD&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; DE BRYE MARCHAND&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160;  A BRUXELLE LE [Illegible]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; FEVRIER 1637.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;hapgood&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Hugo, Victor. ''Les Misérables. Complete in Five Volumes.'' Trans. Isabel F Hapgood. Project Gutenberg eBook, 2008.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Citations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Citations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Historymaker: /* English text */</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l405&quot; &gt;Line 405:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637.&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[[8]] &lt;/del&gt;It was so&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637. It was so&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;deep on the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;deep on the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; that is to&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; that is to&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;say, terrible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;say, terrible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translation notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translation notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Historymaker</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://chanvrerie.net/annotations/index.php?title=Volume_2/Book_1/Chapter_7&amp;diff=182&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Historymaker: /* Translation notes */</title>
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 17:53, 2 March 2014&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l426&quot; &gt;Line 426:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Caesar is laughing, Pompey weeping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Caesar is laughing, Pompey weeping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;===Scabra rubigine.===&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rough from rust.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Textual notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Textual notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://chanvrerie.net/annotations/index.php?title=Volume_2/Book_1/Chapter_7&amp;diff=177&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Historymaker: /* Translation notes */</title>
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		<updated>2014-03-02T17:48:27Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;‎&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Translation notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 17:48, 2 March 2014&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l422&quot; &gt;Line 422:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translation notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translation notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;===Ridet Caesar, Pompeius flebit.===&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Caesar is laughing, Pompey weeping.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Textual notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Textual notes==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://chanvrerie.net/annotations/index.php?title=Volume_2/Book_1/Chapter_7&amp;diff=175&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables, Volume 2: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo, Chapter 7: Napoleon in a Good Humor&lt;br /&gt; (Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 7: Napol&amp;eacute;o...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2014-03-02T17:46:15Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Les Misérables, Volume 2: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo, Chapter 7: Napoleon in a Good Humor&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; (Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 7: Napoléo...&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 7: Napoleon in a Good Humor&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Tome 2: Cosette, Livre premier: Waterloo, Chapitre 7: Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on de belle humeur)&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;
 &lt;br /&gt;
L'empereur, quoique malade et g&amp;amp;ecirc;n&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; cheval par une souffrance locale,&lt;br /&gt;
n'avait jamais &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; de si bonne humeur que ce jour-l&amp;amp;agrave;. Depuis le matin,&lt;br /&gt;
son imp&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;trabilit&amp;amp;eacute; souriait. Le 18 juin 1815, cette &amp;amp;acirc;me profonde,&lt;br /&gt;
masqu&amp;amp;eacute;e de marbre, rayonnait aveugl&amp;amp;eacute;ment. L'homme qui avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; sombre &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
Austerlitz fut gai &amp;amp;agrave; Waterloo. Les plus grands pr&amp;amp;eacute;destin&amp;amp;eacute;s font de ces&lt;br /&gt;
contre-sens. Nos joies sont de l'ombre. Le supr&amp;amp;ecirc;me sourire est &amp;amp;agrave; Dieu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
''Ridet Caesar, Pompeius flebit'', disaient les l&amp;amp;eacute;gionnaires de la l&amp;amp;eacute;gion&lt;br /&gt;
Fulminatrix. Pomp&amp;amp;eacute;e cette fois ne devait pas pleurer, mais il est&lt;br /&gt;
certain que C&amp;amp;eacute;sar riait.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
D&amp;amp;egrave;s la veille, la nuit, &amp;amp;agrave; une heure, explorant &amp;amp;agrave; cheval, sous l'orage et&lt;br /&gt;
sous la pluie, avec Bertrand, les collines qui avoisinent Rossomme,&lt;br /&gt;
satisfait de voir la longue ligne des feux anglais illuminant tout&lt;br /&gt;
l'horizon de Frischemont &amp;amp;agrave; Braine-l'Alleud, il lui avait sembl&amp;amp;eacute; que le&lt;br /&gt;
destin, assign&amp;amp;eacute; par lui &amp;amp;agrave; jour fixe sur ce champ de Waterloo, &amp;amp;eacute;tait&lt;br /&gt;
exact; il avait arr&amp;amp;ecirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; son cheval, et &amp;amp;eacute;tait demeur&amp;amp;eacute; quelque temps&lt;br /&gt;
immobile, regardant les &amp;amp;eacute;clairs, &amp;amp;eacute;coutant le tonnerre, et on avait&lt;br /&gt;
entendu ce fataliste jeter dans l'ombre cette parole myst&amp;amp;eacute;rieuse: &amp;amp;laquo;Nous&lt;br /&gt;
sommes d'accord.&amp;amp;raquo; Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on se trompait. Ils n'&amp;amp;eacute;taient plus d'accord.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Il n'avait pas pris une minute de sommeil, tous les instants de cette&lt;br /&gt;
nuit-l&amp;amp;agrave; avaient &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; marqu&amp;amp;eacute;s pour lui par une joie. Il avait parcouru&lt;br /&gt;
toute la ligne des grand'gardes, en s'arr&amp;amp;ecirc;tent &amp;amp;ccedil;&amp;amp;agrave; et l&amp;amp;agrave; pour parler aux&lt;br /&gt;
vedettes. &amp;amp;Agrave; deux heures et demie, pr&amp;amp;egrave;s du bois d'Hougomont, il avait&lt;br /&gt;
entendu le pas d'une colonne en marche; il avait cru un moment &amp;amp;agrave; la&lt;br /&gt;
reculade de Wellington. Il avait dit &amp;amp;agrave; Bertrand: ''C'est l'arri&amp;amp;egrave;re-garde&lt;br /&gt;
anglaise qui s'&amp;amp;eacute;branle pour d&amp;amp;eacute;camper. Je ferai prisonniers les six mille&lt;br /&gt;
Anglais qui viennent d'arriver &amp;amp;agrave; Ostende''. Il causait avec expansion; il&lt;br /&gt;
avait retrouv&amp;amp;eacute; cette verve du d&amp;amp;eacute;barquement du 1er mars, quand il&lt;br /&gt;
montrait au grand-mar&amp;amp;eacute;chal le paysan enthousiaste du golfe Juan, en&lt;br /&gt;
s'&amp;amp;eacute;criant:&amp;amp;mdash;''Eh bien, Bertrand, voil&amp;amp;agrave; d&amp;amp;eacute;j&amp;amp;agrave; du renfort!'' La nuit du 17&lt;br /&gt;
au 18 juin, il raillait Wellington.&amp;amp;mdash;''Ce petit Anglais a besoin d'une&lt;br /&gt;
le&amp;amp;ccedil;on'', disait Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on. La pluie redoublait, il tonnait pendant que&lt;br /&gt;
l'empereur parlait.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;Agrave; trois heures et demie du matin, il avait perdu une illusion; des&lt;br /&gt;
officiers envoy&amp;amp;eacute;s en reconnaissance lui avaient annonc&amp;amp;eacute; que l'ennemi ne&lt;br /&gt;
faisait aucun mouvement. Rien ne bougeait; pas un feu de bivouac n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;teint. L'arm&amp;amp;eacute;e anglaise dormait. Le silence &amp;amp;eacute;tait profond sur la terre;&lt;br /&gt;
il n'y avait de bruit que dans le ciel. &amp;amp;Agrave; quatre heures, un paysan lui&lt;br /&gt;
avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; amen&amp;amp;eacute; par les coureurs; ce paysan avait servi de guide &amp;amp;agrave; une&lt;br /&gt;
brigade de cavalerie anglaise, probablement la brigade Vivian, qui&lt;br /&gt;
allait prendre position au village d'Ohain, &amp;amp;agrave; l'extr&amp;amp;ecirc;me gauche. &amp;amp;Agrave; cinq&lt;br /&gt;
heures, deux d&amp;amp;eacute;serteurs belges lui avaient rapport&amp;amp;eacute; qu'ils venaient de&lt;br /&gt;
quitter leur r&amp;amp;eacute;giment, et que l'arm&amp;amp;eacute;e anglaise attendait la bataille.&lt;br /&gt;
''Tant mieux!'' s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait &amp;amp;eacute;cri&amp;amp;eacute; Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on. ''J'aime encore mieux les culbuter&lt;br /&gt;
que les refouler''.&lt;br /&gt;
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Le matin, sur la berge qui fait l'angle du chemin de Plancenoit, il&lt;br /&gt;
avait mis pied &amp;amp;agrave; terre dans la boue, s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait fait apporter de la ferme&lt;br /&gt;
de Rossomme une table de cuisine et une chaise de paysan, s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait assis,&lt;br /&gt;
avec une botte de paille pour tapis, et avait d&amp;amp;eacute;ploy&amp;amp;eacute; sur la table la&lt;br /&gt;
carte du champ de bataille, en disant &amp;amp;agrave; Soult: ''Joli &amp;amp;eacute;chiquier''!&lt;br /&gt;
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Par suite des pluies de la nuit, les convois de vivres, emp&amp;amp;ecirc;tr&amp;amp;eacute;s dans&lt;br /&gt;
des routes d&amp;amp;eacute;fonc&amp;amp;eacute;es, n'avaient pu arriver le matin, le soldat n'avait&lt;br /&gt;
pas dormi, &amp;amp;eacute;tait mouill&amp;amp;eacute;, et &amp;amp;eacute;tait &amp;amp;agrave; jeun; cela n'avait pas emp&amp;amp;ecirc;ch&amp;amp;eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on de crier all&amp;amp;eacute;grement &amp;amp;agrave; Ney: ''Nous avons quatre-vingt-dix&lt;br /&gt;
chances sur cent''. &amp;amp;Agrave; huit heures, on avait apport&amp;amp;eacute; le d&amp;amp;eacute;jeuner de&lt;br /&gt;
l'empereur. Il y avait invit&amp;amp;eacute; plusieurs g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;raux. Tout en d&amp;amp;eacute;jeunant, on&lt;br /&gt;
avait racont&amp;amp;eacute; que Wellington &amp;amp;eacute;tait l'avant-veille au bal &amp;amp;agrave; Bruxelles,&lt;br /&gt;
chez la duchesse de Richmond, et Soult, rude homme de guerre avec une&lt;br /&gt;
figure d'archev&amp;amp;ecirc;que, avait dit: ''Le bal, c'est aujourd'hui''. L'empereur&lt;br /&gt;
avait plaisant&amp;amp;eacute; Ney qui disait: ''Wellington ne sera pas assez simple&lt;br /&gt;
pour attendre Votre Majest&amp;amp;eacute;''. C'&amp;amp;eacute;tait l&amp;amp;agrave; d'ailleurs sa mani&amp;amp;egrave;re. Il&lt;br /&gt;
badinait volontiers, dit Fleury de Chaboulon. ''Le fond de son caract&amp;amp;egrave;re&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;tait une humeur enjou&amp;amp;eacute;e'', dit Gourgaud. ''Il abondait en plaisanteries,&lt;br /&gt;
plut&amp;amp;ocirc;t bizarres que spirituelles'', dit Benjamin Constant. Ces ga&amp;amp;icirc;t&amp;amp;eacute;s de&lt;br /&gt;
g&amp;amp;eacute;ant valent la peine qu'on y insiste. C'est lui qui avait appel&amp;amp;eacute; ses&lt;br /&gt;
grenadiers &amp;amp;laquo;les grognards&amp;amp;raquo;; il leur pin&amp;amp;ccedil;ait l'oreille, il leur tirait la&lt;br /&gt;
moustache. ''L'empereur ne faisait que nous faire des niches;'' ceci est&lt;br /&gt;
un mot de l'un d'eux. Pendant le myst&amp;amp;eacute;rieux trajet de l'&amp;amp;icirc;le d'Elbe en&lt;br /&gt;
France, le 27 f&amp;amp;eacute;vrier, en pleine mer, le brick de guerre fran&amp;amp;ccedil;ais le&lt;br /&gt;
''Z&amp;amp;eacute;phir'' ayant rencontr&amp;amp;eacute; le brick l'''Inconstant'' o&amp;amp;ugrave; Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on &amp;amp;eacute;tait cach&amp;amp;eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
et ayant demand&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; l'''Inconstant'' des nouvelles de Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on, l'empereur,&lt;br /&gt;
qui avait encore en ce moment-l&amp;amp;agrave; &amp;amp;agrave; son chapeau la cocarde blanche et&lt;br /&gt;
amarante sem&amp;amp;eacute;e d'abeilles, adopt&amp;amp;eacute;e par lui &amp;amp;agrave; l'&amp;amp;icirc;le d'Elbe, avait pris en&lt;br /&gt;
riant le porte-voix et avait r&amp;amp;eacute;pondu lui-m&amp;amp;ecirc;me: ''L'empereur se porte&lt;br /&gt;
bien''. Qui rit de la sorte est en familiarit&amp;amp;eacute; avec les &amp;amp;eacute;v&amp;amp;eacute;nements.&lt;br /&gt;
Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on avait eu plusieurs acc&amp;amp;egrave;s de ce rire pendant le d&amp;amp;eacute;jeuner de&lt;br /&gt;
Waterloo. Apr&amp;amp;egrave;s le d&amp;amp;eacute;jeuner il s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait recueilli un quart d'heure, puis&lt;br /&gt;
deux g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;raux s'&amp;amp;eacute;taient assis sur la botte de paille, une plume &amp;amp;agrave; la&lt;br /&gt;
main, une feuille de papier sur le genou, et l'empereur leur avait dict&amp;amp;eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
l'ordre de bataille.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;amp;Agrave; neuf heures, &amp;amp;agrave; l'instant o&amp;amp;ugrave; l'arm&amp;amp;eacute;e fran&amp;amp;ccedil;aise, &amp;amp;eacute;chelonn&amp;amp;eacute;e et mise en&lt;br /&gt;
mouvement sur cinq colonnes, s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait d&amp;amp;eacute;ploy&amp;amp;eacute;e, les divisions sur deux&lt;br /&gt;
lignes, l'artillerie entre les brigades, musique en t&amp;amp;ecirc;te, battant aux&lt;br /&gt;
champs, avec les roulements des tambours et les sonneries des&lt;br /&gt;
trompettes, puissante, vaste, joyeuse, mer de casques, de sabres et de&lt;br /&gt;
bayonnettes sur l'ho-rizon, l'empereur, &amp;amp;eacute;mu, s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait &amp;amp;eacute;cri&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; deux&lt;br /&gt;
reprises: ''Magnifique! magnifique!''&lt;br /&gt;
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De neuf heures &amp;amp;agrave; dix heures et demie, toute l'arm&amp;amp;eacute;e, ce qui semble&lt;br /&gt;
incroyable, avait pris position et s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait rang&amp;amp;eacute;e sur six lignes,&lt;br /&gt;
formant, pour r&amp;amp;eacute;p&amp;amp;eacute;ter l'expression de l'empereur, &amp;amp;laquo;la figure de six V&amp;amp;raquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
Quelques instants apr&amp;amp;egrave;s la formation du front de bataille, au milieu de&lt;br /&gt;
ce profond silence de commencement d'orage qui pr&amp;amp;eacute;c&amp;amp;egrave;de les m&amp;amp;ecirc;l&amp;amp;eacute;es,&lt;br /&gt;
voyant d&amp;amp;eacute;filer les trois batteries de douze, d&amp;amp;eacute;tach&amp;amp;eacute;es sur son ordre des&lt;br /&gt;
trois corps de d'Erlon, de Reille et de Lobau, et destin&amp;amp;eacute;es &amp;amp;agrave; commencer&lt;br /&gt;
l'action en battant Mont-Saint-Jean o&amp;amp;ugrave; est l'intersection des routes de&lt;br /&gt;
Nivelles et de Genappe, l'empereur avait frapp&amp;amp;eacute; sur l'&amp;amp;eacute;paule de Haxo en&lt;br /&gt;
lui disant: ''Voil&amp;amp;agrave; vingt-quatre belles filles, g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;ral''.&lt;br /&gt;
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S&amp;amp;ucirc;r de l'issue, il avait encourag&amp;amp;eacute; d'un sourire, &amp;amp;agrave; son passage devant&lt;br /&gt;
lui, la compagnie de sapeurs du premier corps, d&amp;amp;eacute;sign&amp;amp;eacute;e par lui pour se&lt;br /&gt;
barricader dans Mont-Saint-Jean, sit&amp;amp;ocirc;t le village enlev&amp;amp;eacute;. Toute cette&lt;br /&gt;
s&amp;amp;eacute;r&amp;amp;eacute;nit&amp;amp;eacute; n'avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; travers&amp;amp;eacute;e que par un mot de piti&amp;amp;eacute; hautaine; en&lt;br /&gt;
voyant &amp;amp;agrave; sa gauche, &amp;amp;agrave; un endroit o&amp;amp;ugrave; il y a aujourd'hui une grande tombe,&lt;br /&gt;
se masser avec leurs chevaux superbes ces admirables &amp;amp;Eacute;cossais gris, il&lt;br /&gt;
avait dit: ''C'est dommage''.&lt;br /&gt;
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Puis il &amp;amp;eacute;tait mont&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; cheval, s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait port&amp;amp;eacute; en avant de Rossomme, et&lt;br /&gt;
avait choisi pour observatoire une &amp;amp;eacute;troite croupe de gazon &amp;amp;agrave; droite de&lt;br /&gt;
la route de Genappe &amp;amp;agrave; Bruxelles, qui fut sa seconde station pendant la&lt;br /&gt;
bataille. La troisi&amp;amp;egrave;me station, celle de sept heures du soir, entre la&lt;br /&gt;
Belle-Alliance et la Haie-Sainte, est redoutable; c'est un tertre assez&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;lev&amp;amp;eacute; qui existe encore et derri&amp;amp;egrave;re lequel la garde &amp;amp;eacute;tait mass&amp;amp;eacute;e dans&lt;br /&gt;
une d&amp;amp;eacute;clivit&amp;amp;eacute; de la plaine. Autour de ce tertre, les boulets ricochaient&lt;br /&gt;
sur le pav&amp;amp;eacute; de la chauss&amp;amp;eacute;e jusqu'&amp;amp;agrave; Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on. Comme &amp;amp;agrave; Brienne, il avait&lt;br /&gt;
sur sa t&amp;amp;ecirc;te le sifflement des balles et des biscayens. On a ramass&amp;amp;eacute;,&lt;br /&gt;
presque &amp;amp;agrave; l'endroit o&amp;amp;ugrave; &amp;amp;eacute;taient les pieds de son cheval, des boulets&lt;br /&gt;
vermoulus, de vieilles lames de sabre et des projectiles informes,&lt;br /&gt;
mang&amp;amp;eacute;s de rouille. ''Scabra rubigine''. Il y a quelques ann&amp;amp;eacute;es, on y a&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;amp;eacute;terr&amp;amp;eacute; un obus de soixante, encore charg&amp;amp;eacute;, dont la fus&amp;amp;eacute;e s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait bris&amp;amp;eacute;e&lt;br /&gt;
au ras de la bombe. C'est &amp;amp;agrave; cette derni&amp;amp;egrave;re station que l'empereur disait&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;agrave; son guide Lacoste, paysan hostile, effar&amp;amp;eacute;, attach&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; la selle d'un&lt;br /&gt;
hussard, se retournant &amp;amp;agrave; chaque paquet de mitraille, et t&amp;amp;acirc;chant de se&lt;br /&gt;
cacher derri&amp;amp;egrave;re lui:&amp;amp;mdash;''Imb&amp;amp;eacute;cile! c'est honteux, tu vas te faire tuer&lt;br /&gt;
dans le dos''. Celui qui &amp;amp;eacute;crit ces lignes, a trouv&amp;amp;eacute; lui-m&amp;amp;ecirc;me dans le&lt;br /&gt;
talus friable de ce tertre, en creusant le sable, les restes du col&lt;br /&gt;
d'une bombe d&amp;amp;eacute;sagr&amp;amp;eacute;g&amp;amp;eacute;s par l'oxyde de quarante-six ann&amp;amp;eacute;es, et de vieux&lt;br /&gt;
tron&amp;amp;ccedil;ons de fer qui cassaient comme des b&amp;amp;acirc;tons de sureau entre ses&lt;br /&gt;
doigts.&lt;br /&gt;
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Les ondulations des plaines diversement inclin&amp;amp;eacute;es o&amp;amp;ugrave; eut lieu la&lt;br /&gt;
rencontre de Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on et de Wellington ne sont plus, personne ne&lt;br /&gt;
l'ignore, ce qu'elles &amp;amp;eacute;taient le 18 juin 1815. En prenant &amp;amp;agrave; ce champ&lt;br /&gt;
fun&amp;amp;egrave;bre de quoi lui faire un monument, on lui a &amp;amp;ocirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; son relief r&amp;amp;eacute;el, et&lt;br /&gt;
l'histoire, d&amp;amp;eacute;concert&amp;amp;eacute;e, ne s'y reconna&amp;amp;icirc;t plus. Pour le glorifier, on&lt;br /&gt;
l'a d&amp;amp;eacute;figur&amp;amp;eacute;. Wellington, deux ans apr&amp;amp;egrave;s, revoyant Waterloo, s'est&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;cri&amp;amp;eacute;: ''On m'a chang&amp;amp;eacute; mon champ de bataille''. L&amp;amp;agrave; o&amp;amp;ugrave; est aujourd'hui la&lt;br /&gt;
grosse pyramide de terre surmont&amp;amp;eacute;e du lion, il y avait une cr&amp;amp;ecirc;te qui,&lt;br /&gt;
vers la route de Nivelles, s'abaissait en rampe praticable, mais qui, du&lt;br /&gt;
c&amp;amp;ocirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; de la chauss&amp;amp;eacute;e de Genappe, &amp;amp;eacute;tait presque un escarpement.&lt;br /&gt;
L'&amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;eacute;vation de cet escarpement peut encore &amp;amp;ecirc;tre mesur&amp;amp;eacute;e aujourd'hui par&lt;br /&gt;
la hauteur des deux tertres des deux grandes s&amp;amp;eacute;pultures qui encaissent&lt;br /&gt;
la route de Genappe &amp;amp;agrave; Bruxelles; l'une, le tombeau anglais, &amp;amp;agrave; gauche;&lt;br /&gt;
l'autre, le tombeau allemand, &amp;amp;agrave; droite. Il n'y a point de tombeau&lt;br /&gt;
fran&amp;amp;ccedil;ais. Pour la France, toute cette plaine est s&amp;amp;eacute;pulcre. Gr&amp;amp;acirc;ce aux&lt;br /&gt;
mille et mille charret&amp;amp;eacute;es de terre employ&amp;amp;eacute;es &amp;amp;agrave; la butte de cent&lt;br /&gt;
cinquante pieds de haut et d'un demi-mille de circuit, le plateau de&lt;br /&gt;
Mont-Saint-Jean est aujourd'hui accessible en pente douce; le jour de la&lt;br /&gt;
bataille, surtout du c&amp;amp;ocirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; de la Haie-Sainte, il &amp;amp;eacute;tait d'un abord &amp;amp;acirc;pre et&lt;br /&gt;
abrupt. Le versant l&amp;amp;agrave; &amp;amp;eacute;tait si inclin&amp;amp;eacute; que les canons anglais ne&lt;br /&gt;
voyaient pas au-dessous d'eux la ferme situ&amp;amp;eacute;e au fond du vallon, centre&lt;br /&gt;
du combat. Le 18 juin 1815, les pluies avaient encore ravin&amp;amp;eacute; cette&lt;br /&gt;
roideur, la fange compliquait la mont&amp;amp;eacute;e, et non seulement on gravissait,&lt;br /&gt;
mais on s'embourbait. Le long de la cr&amp;amp;ecirc;te du plateau courait une sorte&lt;br /&gt;
de foss&amp;amp;eacute; impossible &amp;amp;agrave; deviner pour un observateur lointain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Qu'&amp;amp;eacute;tait-ce que ce foss&amp;amp;eacute;? Disons-le. Braine-l'Alleud est un village de&lt;br /&gt;
Belgique, Ohain en est un autre. Ces villages, cach&amp;amp;eacute;s tous les deux dans&lt;br /&gt;
des courbes de terrain, sont joints par un chemin d'une lieue et demie&lt;br /&gt;
environ qui traverse une plaine &amp;amp;agrave; niveau ondulant, et souvent entre et&lt;br /&gt;
s'enfonce dans des collines comme un sillon, ce qui fait que sur divers&lt;br /&gt;
points cette route est un ravin. En 1815, comme aujourd'hui, cette route&lt;br /&gt;
coupait la cr&amp;amp;ecirc;te du plateau de Mont-Saint-Jean entre les deux chauss&amp;amp;eacute;es&lt;br /&gt;
de Genappe et de Nivelles; seulement, elle est aujourd'hui de plain-pied&lt;br /&gt;
avec la plaine; elle &amp;amp;eacute;tait alors chemin creux. On lui a pris ses deux&lt;br /&gt;
talus pour la butte-monument. Cette route &amp;amp;eacute;tait et est encore une&lt;br /&gt;
tranch&amp;amp;eacute;e dans la plus grande partie de son parcours; tranch&amp;amp;eacute;e creuse&lt;br /&gt;
quelquefois d'une douzaine de pieds et dont les talus trop escarp&amp;amp;eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
s'&amp;amp;eacute;croulaient &amp;amp;ccedil;&amp;amp;agrave; et l&amp;amp;agrave;, surtout en hiver, sous les averses. Des&lt;br /&gt;
accidents y arrivaient. La route &amp;amp;eacute;tait si &amp;amp;eacute;troite &amp;amp;agrave; l'entr&amp;amp;eacute;e de&lt;br /&gt;
Braine-l'Alleud qu'un passant y avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; broy&amp;amp;eacute; par un chariot, comme le&lt;br /&gt;
constate une croix de pierre debout pr&amp;amp;egrave;s du cimeti&amp;amp;egrave;re qui donne le nom&lt;br /&gt;
du mort, ''Monsieur Bernard Debrye, marchand &amp;amp;agrave; Bruxelles'', et la date de&lt;br /&gt;
l'accident, ''f&amp;amp;eacute;vrier 1637 ''. Elle &amp;amp;eacute;tait si profonde sur le plateau du&lt;br /&gt;
Mont-Saint-Jean qu'un paysan, Mathieu Nicaise, y avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;eacute;cras&amp;amp;eacute; en&lt;br /&gt;
1783 par un &amp;amp;eacute;boulement du talus, comme le constatait une autre croix de&lt;br /&gt;
pierre dont le fa&amp;amp;icirc;te a disparu dans les d&amp;amp;eacute;frichements, mais dont le&lt;br /&gt;
pi&amp;amp;eacute;destal renvers&amp;amp;eacute; est encore visible aujourd'hui sur la pente du gazon&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;agrave; gauche de la chauss&amp;amp;eacute;e entre la Haie-Sainte et la ferme de&lt;br /&gt;
Mont-Saint-Jean.&lt;br /&gt;
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Un jour de bataille, ce chemin creux dont rien n'avertissait, bordant la&lt;br /&gt;
cr&amp;amp;ecirc;te de Mont-Saint-Jean, foss&amp;amp;eacute; au sommet de l'es-carpement, orni&amp;amp;egrave;re&lt;br /&gt;
cach&amp;amp;eacute;e dans les terres, &amp;amp;eacute;tait invisible, c'est-&amp;amp;agrave;-dire terrible.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble,&lt;br /&gt;
had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability had&lt;br /&gt;
been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that profound&lt;br /&gt;
soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been gloomy at&lt;br /&gt;
Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of destiny make&lt;br /&gt;
mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme smile is God's&lt;br /&gt;
alone.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ridet Caesar, Pompeius flebit, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix&lt;br /&gt;
Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
certain that Caesar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock&lt;br /&gt;
on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the&lt;br /&gt;
communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the&lt;br /&gt;
long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from&lt;br /&gt;
Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to whom he&lt;br /&gt;
had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to the appointment;&lt;br /&gt;
he stopped his horse, and remained for some time motionless, gazing at the&lt;br /&gt;
lightning and listening to the thunder; and this fatalist was heard to&lt;br /&gt;
cast into the darkness this mysterious saying, &amp;quot;We are in accord.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer in accord.&lt;br /&gt;
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He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked by&lt;br /&gt;
a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting&lt;br /&gt;
here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near the wood&lt;br /&gt;
of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he thought at&lt;br /&gt;
the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. He said: &amp;quot;It&lt;br /&gt;
is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the purpose of&lt;br /&gt;
decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who have just&lt;br /&gt;
arrived at Ostend.&amp;quot; He conversed expansively; he regained the animation&lt;br /&gt;
which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when he pointed&lt;br /&gt;
out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf Juan, and&lt;br /&gt;
cried, &amp;quot;Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!&amp;quot; On the night of&lt;br /&gt;
the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. &amp;quot;That little&lt;br /&gt;
Englishman needs a lesson,&amp;quot; said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in violence;&lt;br /&gt;
the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking.&lt;br /&gt;
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At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; officers&lt;br /&gt;
who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that the enemy was&lt;br /&gt;
not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a bivouac-fire had been&lt;br /&gt;
extinguished; the English army was asleep. The silence on earth was&lt;br /&gt;
profound; the only noise was in the heavens. At four o'clock, a peasant&lt;br /&gt;
was brought in to him by the scouts; this peasant had served as guide to a&lt;br /&gt;
brigade of English cavalry, probably Vivian's brigade, which was on its&lt;br /&gt;
way to take up a position in the village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At&lt;br /&gt;
five o'clock, two Belgian deserters reported to him that they had just&lt;br /&gt;
quitted their regiment, and that the English army was ready for battle.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So much the better!&amp;quot; exclaimed Napoleon. &amp;quot;I prefer to overthrow them&lt;br /&gt;
rather than to drive them back.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an angle&lt;br /&gt;
with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's chair&lt;br /&gt;
brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a truss of&lt;br /&gt;
straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart of the&lt;br /&gt;
battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, &amp;quot;A pretty checker-board.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of&lt;br /&gt;
provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by&lt;br /&gt;
morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This&lt;br /&gt;
did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, &amp;quot;We have&lt;br /&gt;
ninety chances out of a hundred.&amp;quot; At eight o'clock the Emperor's breakfast&lt;br /&gt;
was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During breakfast, it&lt;br /&gt;
was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights before, in&lt;br /&gt;
Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough man of war,&lt;br /&gt;
with a face of an archbishop, said, &amp;quot;The ball takes place to-day.&amp;quot; The&lt;br /&gt;
Emperor jested with Ney, who said, &amp;quot;Wellington will not be so simple as to&lt;br /&gt;
wait for Your Majesty.&amp;quot; That was his way, however. &amp;quot;He was fond of&lt;br /&gt;
jesting,&amp;quot; says Fleury de Chaboulon. &amp;quot;A merry humor was at the foundation&lt;br /&gt;
of his character,&amp;quot; says Gourgaud. &amp;quot;He abounded in pleasantries, which were&lt;br /&gt;
more peculiar than witty,&amp;quot; says Benjamin Constant. These gayeties of a&lt;br /&gt;
giant are worthy of insistence. It was he who called his grenadiers &amp;quot;his&lt;br /&gt;
grumblers&amp;quot;; he pinched their ears; he pulled their mustaches. &amp;quot;The Emperor&lt;br /&gt;
did nothing but play pranks on us,&amp;quot; is the remark of one of them. During&lt;br /&gt;
the mysterious trip from the island of Elba to France, on the 27th of&lt;br /&gt;
February, on the open sea, the French brig of war, Le Zephyr, having&lt;br /&gt;
encountered the brig L'Inconstant, on which Napoleon was concealed, and&lt;br /&gt;
having asked the news of Napoleon from L'Inconstant, the Emperor, who&lt;br /&gt;
still wore in his hat the white and amaranthine cockade sown with bees,&lt;br /&gt;
which he had adopted at the isle of Elba, laughingly seized the&lt;br /&gt;
speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, &amp;quot;The Emperor is well.&amp;quot; A man&lt;br /&gt;
who laughs like that is on familiar terms with events. Napoleon indulged&lt;br /&gt;
in many fits of this laughter during the breakfast at Waterloo. After&lt;br /&gt;
breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an hour; then two generals seated&lt;br /&gt;
themselves on the truss of straw, pen in hand and their paper on their&lt;br /&gt;
knees, and the Emperor dictated to them the order of battle.&lt;br /&gt;
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At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons&lt;br /&gt;
and set in motion in five columns, had deployed&amp;amp;mdash;the divisions in two&lt;br /&gt;
lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as&lt;br /&gt;
they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets,&lt;br /&gt;
mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on the&lt;br /&gt;
horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, &amp;quot;Magnificent!&lt;br /&gt;
Magnificent!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it&lt;br /&gt;
may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines,&lt;br /&gt;
forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, &amp;quot;the figure of six V's.&amp;quot; A&lt;br /&gt;
few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of that&lt;br /&gt;
profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, which&lt;br /&gt;
precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as he&lt;br /&gt;
beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders from&lt;br /&gt;
the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the action by&lt;br /&gt;
taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection of the&lt;br /&gt;
Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, &amp;quot;There are four and&lt;br /&gt;
twenty handsome maids, General.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before him,&lt;br /&gt;
the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed to&lt;br /&gt;
barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. All&lt;br /&gt;
this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty pity;&lt;br /&gt;
perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large tomb,&lt;br /&gt;
those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing&lt;br /&gt;
themselves, he said, &amp;quot;It is a pity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for his&lt;br /&gt;
post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of the&lt;br /&gt;
road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during the&lt;br /&gt;
battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the&lt;br /&gt;
evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; it&lt;br /&gt;
is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the guard&lt;br /&gt;
was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls rebounded&lt;br /&gt;
from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at Brienne, he&lt;br /&gt;
had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the heavy artillery.&lt;br /&gt;
Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless projectiles, eaten up&lt;br /&gt;
with rust, were picked up at the spot where his horse' feet stood. Scabra&lt;br /&gt;
rubigine. A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and&lt;br /&gt;
with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed. It was at&lt;br /&gt;
this last post that the Emperor said to his guide, Lacoste, a hostile and&lt;br /&gt;
terrified peasant, who was attached to the saddle of a hussar, and who&lt;br /&gt;
turned round at every discharge of canister and tried to hide behind&lt;br /&gt;
Napoleon: &amp;quot;Fool, it is shameful! You'll get yourself killed with a ball in&lt;br /&gt;
the back.&amp;quot; He who writes these lines has himself found, in the friable&lt;br /&gt;
soil of this knoll, on turning over the sand, the remains of the neck of a&lt;br /&gt;
bomb, disintegrated, by the oxidization of six and forty years, and old&lt;br /&gt;
fragments of iron which parted like elder-twigs between the fingers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the plains,&lt;br /&gt;
where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, are no&lt;br /&gt;
longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this mournful field&lt;br /&gt;
the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief has been taken&lt;br /&gt;
away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her bearings there. It&lt;br /&gt;
has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying it. Wellington, when he&lt;br /&gt;
beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, exclaimed, &amp;quot;They have altered&lt;br /&gt;
my field of battle!&amp;quot; Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the&lt;br /&gt;
lion, rises to-day, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope&lt;br /&gt;
towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side&lt;br /&gt;
of the highway to Genappe. The elevation of this escarpment can still be&lt;br /&gt;
measured by the height of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which&lt;br /&gt;
enclose the road from Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on&lt;br /&gt;
the left; the other, the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French&lt;br /&gt;
tomb. The whole of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the&lt;br /&gt;
thousands upon thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one&lt;br /&gt;
hundred and fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the&lt;br /&gt;
plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day&lt;br /&gt;
of battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and&lt;br /&gt;
difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English cannon&lt;br /&gt;
could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, which was&lt;br /&gt;
the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains had still&lt;br /&gt;
farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the problem of the&lt;br /&gt;
ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast in the mire.&lt;br /&gt;
Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose presence it was&lt;br /&gt;
impossible for the distant observer to divine.&lt;br /&gt;
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What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian&lt;br /&gt;
village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in&lt;br /&gt;
curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a half&lt;br /&gt;
in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, and often&lt;br /&gt;
enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which makes a ravine&lt;br /&gt;
of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present day, this road cut&lt;br /&gt;
the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between the two highways from&lt;br /&gt;
Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level with the plain; it was&lt;br /&gt;
then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been appropriated for the&lt;br /&gt;
monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, a trench throughout the&lt;br /&gt;
greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, sometimes a dozen feet in&lt;br /&gt;
depth, and whose banks, being too steep, crumbled away here and there,&lt;br /&gt;
particularly in winter, under driving rains. Accidents happened here. The&lt;br /&gt;
road was so narrow at the Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was&lt;br /&gt;
crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the&lt;br /&gt;
cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye,&lt;br /&gt;
Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637.[[8]] It was so&lt;br /&gt;
deep on the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise,&lt;br /&gt;
was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on&lt;br /&gt;
another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of&lt;br /&gt;
clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on the&lt;br /&gt;
grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and the&lt;br /&gt;
farm of Mont-Saint-Jean.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way&lt;br /&gt;
indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the summit&lt;br /&gt;
of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; that is to&lt;br /&gt;
say, terrible.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Citations==&lt;br /&gt;
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