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		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables,  Volume 3: Marius, Book First: Paris Studied in its Atom, Chapter 11: To Scoff, to Reign&lt;br /&gt; (Tome 3: Marius, Livre premier: Paris &amp;eacute;tudi&amp;eacute...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Les Misérables,  Volume 3: Marius, Book First: Paris Studied in its Atom, Chapter 11: To Scoff, to Reign&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; (Tome 3: Marius, Livre premier: Paris étudi&amp;amp;eacute...&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 3: Marius, Book First: Paris Studied in its Atom, Chapter 11: To Scoff, to Reign&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Tome 3: Marius, Livre premier: Paris &amp;amp;eacute;tudi&amp;amp;eacute; dans son atome, Chapitre 11: Railler, r&amp;amp;eacute;gner)&lt;br /&gt;
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==General notes on this chapter==&lt;br /&gt;
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==French text==&lt;br /&gt;
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De limite &amp;amp;agrave; Paris, point. Aucune ville n'a eu cette domination qui&lt;br /&gt;
bafoue parfois ceux qu'elle subjugue. ''Vous plaire, &amp;amp;ocirc; Ath&amp;amp;eacute;niens!''&lt;br /&gt;
s'&amp;amp;eacute;criait Alexandre. Paris fait plus que la loi, il fait la mode; Paris&lt;br /&gt;
fait plus que la mode, il fait la routine. Paris peut &amp;amp;ecirc;tre b&amp;amp;ecirc;te si bon&lt;br /&gt;
lui semble, il se donne quelquefois ce luxe; alors l'univers est b&amp;amp;ecirc;te&lt;br /&gt;
avec lui; puis Paris se r&amp;amp;eacute;veille, se frotte les yeux, dit: Suis-je&lt;br /&gt;
stupide! et &amp;amp;eacute;clate de rire &amp;amp;agrave; la face du genre humain. Quelle merveille&lt;br /&gt;
qu'une telle ville! Chose &amp;amp;eacute;trange que ce grandiose et ce burlesque&lt;br /&gt;
fassent bon voisinage, que toute cette majest&amp;amp;eacute; ne soit pas d&amp;amp;eacute;rang&amp;amp;eacute;e par&lt;br /&gt;
toute cette parodie, et que la m&amp;amp;ecirc;me bouche puisse souffler aujourd'hui&lt;br /&gt;
dans le clairon du jugement dernier et demain dans la fl&amp;amp;ucirc;te &amp;amp;agrave; l'oignon!&lt;br /&gt;
Paris a une jovialit&amp;amp;eacute; souveraine. Sa ga&amp;amp;icirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; est de la foudre et sa farce&lt;br /&gt;
tient un sceptre. Son ouragan sort parfois d'une grimace. Ses&lt;br /&gt;
explosions, ses journ&amp;amp;eacute;es, ses chefs-d'&amp;amp;oelig;uvre, ses prodiges, ses &amp;amp;eacute;pop&amp;amp;eacute;es,&lt;br /&gt;
vont au bout de l'univers, et ses coq-&amp;amp;agrave;-l'&amp;amp;acirc;ne aussi. Son rire est une&lt;br /&gt;
bouche de volcan qui &amp;amp;eacute;clabousse toute la terre. Ses lazzis sont des&lt;br /&gt;
flamm&amp;amp;egrave;ches. Il impose aux peuples ses caricatures aussi bien que son&lt;br /&gt;
id&amp;amp;eacute;al; les plus hauts monuments de la civilisation humaine acceptent ses&lt;br /&gt;
ironies et pr&amp;amp;ecirc;tent leur &amp;amp;eacute;ternit&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; ses polissonneries. Il est superbe;&lt;br /&gt;
il a un prodigieux 14 juillet qui d&amp;amp;eacute;livre le globe; il fait faire le&lt;br /&gt;
serment du Jeu de Paume &amp;amp;agrave; toutes les nations; sa nuit du 4 ao&amp;amp;ucirc;t dissout&lt;br /&gt;
en trois heures mille ans de f&amp;amp;eacute;odalit&amp;amp;eacute;; il fait de sa logique le muscle&lt;br /&gt;
de la volont&amp;amp;eacute; unanime; il se multiplie sous toutes les formes du&lt;br /&gt;
sublime; il emplit de sa lueur Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, Botzaris,&lt;br /&gt;
Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; il est partout o&amp;amp;ugrave;&lt;br /&gt;
l'avenir s'allume, &amp;amp;agrave; Boston en 1779, &amp;amp;agrave; l'&amp;amp;icirc;le de L&amp;amp;eacute;on en 1820, &amp;amp;agrave; Pesth en&lt;br /&gt;
1848, &amp;amp;agrave; Palerme en 1860; il chuchote le puissant mot d'ordre: ''Libert&amp;amp;eacute;'',&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;agrave; l'oreille des abolitionnistes am&amp;amp;eacute;ricains group&amp;amp;eacute;s au bac de Harper's&lt;br /&gt;
Ferry, et &amp;amp;agrave; l'oreille des patriotes d'Anc&amp;amp;ocirc;ne assembl&amp;amp;eacute;s dans l'ombre aux&lt;br /&gt;
Archi, devant l'auberge Gozzi, au bord de la mer; il cr&amp;amp;eacute;e Canaris; il&lt;br /&gt;
cr&amp;amp;eacute;e Quiroga; il cr&amp;amp;eacute;e Pisacane; il rayonne le grand sur la terre; c'est&lt;br /&gt;
en allant o&amp;amp;ugrave; son souffle les pousse que Byron meurt &amp;amp;agrave; Missolonghi et que&lt;br /&gt;
Mazet meurt &amp;amp;agrave; Barcelone; il est tribune sous les pieds de Mirabeau et&lt;br /&gt;
crat&amp;amp;egrave;re sous les pieds de Robespierre; ses livres, son th&amp;amp;eacute;&amp;amp;acirc;tre, son&lt;br /&gt;
art, sa science, sa litt&amp;amp;eacute;rature, sa philosophie, sont les manuels du&lt;br /&gt;
genre humain; il a Pascal, R&amp;amp;eacute;gnier, Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques,&lt;br /&gt;
Voltaire pour toutes les minutes, Moli&amp;amp;egrave;re pour tous les si&amp;amp;egrave;cles; il fait&lt;br /&gt;
parler sa langue &amp;amp;agrave; la bouche universelle, et cette langue devient verbe;&lt;br /&gt;
il construit dans tous les esprits l'id&amp;amp;eacute;e de progr&amp;amp;egrave;s; les dogmes&lt;br /&gt;
lib&amp;amp;eacute;rateurs qu'il forge sont pour les g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;rations des &amp;amp;eacute;p&amp;amp;eacute;es de chevet,&lt;br /&gt;
et c'est avec l'&amp;amp;acirc;me de ses penseurs et de ses po&amp;amp;egrave;tes que sont faits&lt;br /&gt;
depuis 1789 tous les h&amp;amp;eacute;ros de tous les peuples; cela ne l'emp&amp;amp;ecirc;che pas de&lt;br /&gt;
gaminer; et ce g&amp;amp;eacute;nie &amp;amp;eacute;norme qu'on appelle Paris, tout en transfigurant&lt;br /&gt;
le monde par sa lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re, charbonne le nez de Bouginier au mur du temple&lt;br /&gt;
de Th&amp;amp;eacute;s&amp;amp;eacute;e et &amp;amp;eacute;crit ''Cr&amp;amp;eacute;deville voleur'' sur les Pyramides.&lt;br /&gt;
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Paris montre toujours les dents; quand il ne gronde pas, il rit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tel est ce Paris. Les fum&amp;amp;eacute;es de ses toits sont les id&amp;amp;eacute;es de l'univers.&lt;br /&gt;
Tas de boue et de pierres si l'on veut, mais, par-dessus tout, &amp;amp;ecirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
moral. Il est plus que grand, il est immense. Pourquoi? parce qu'il ose.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oser; le progr&amp;amp;egrave;s est &amp;amp;agrave; ce prix.&lt;br /&gt;
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Toutes les conqu&amp;amp;ecirc;tes sublimes sont plus ou moins des prix de hardiesse.&lt;br /&gt;
Pour que la r&amp;amp;eacute;volution soit, il ne suffit pas que Montesquieu la&lt;br /&gt;
pressente, que Diderot la pr&amp;amp;ecirc;che, que Beaumarchais l'annonce, que&lt;br /&gt;
Condorcet la calcule, qu'Arouet la pr&amp;amp;eacute;pare, que Rousseau la pr&amp;amp;eacute;m&amp;amp;eacute;dite;&lt;br /&gt;
il faut que Danton l'ose.&lt;br /&gt;
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Le cri: ''Audace!'' est un ''Fiat Lux''. Il faut, pour la marche en avant du&lt;br /&gt;
genre humain, qu'il y ait sur les sommets en permanence de fi&amp;amp;egrave;res le&amp;amp;ccedil;ons&lt;br /&gt;
de courage. Les t&amp;amp;eacute;m&amp;amp;eacute;rit&amp;amp;eacute;s &amp;amp;eacute;blouissent l'histoire et sont une des grandes&lt;br /&gt;
clart&amp;amp;eacute;s de l'homme. L'aurore ose quand elle se l&amp;amp;egrave;ve. Tenter, braver,&lt;br /&gt;
persister, pers&amp;amp;eacute;v&amp;amp;eacute;rer, s'&amp;amp;ecirc;tre fid&amp;amp;egrave;le &amp;amp;agrave; soi-m&amp;amp;ecirc;me, prendre corps &amp;amp;agrave; corps&lt;br /&gt;
le destin, &amp;amp;eacute;tonner la catastrophe par le peu de peur qu'elle nous fait,&lt;br /&gt;
tant&amp;amp;ocirc;t affronter la puissance injuste, tant&amp;amp;ocirc;t insulter la victoire ivre,&lt;br /&gt;
tenir bon, tenir t&amp;amp;ecirc;te; voil&amp;amp;agrave; l'exemple dont les peuples ont besoin, et&lt;br /&gt;
la lumi&amp;amp;egrave;re qui les &amp;amp;eacute;lectrise. Le m&amp;amp;ecirc;me &amp;amp;eacute;clair formidable va de la torche&lt;br /&gt;
de Prom&amp;amp;eacute;th&amp;amp;eacute;e au br&amp;amp;ucirc;le-gueule de Cambronne.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which&lt;br /&gt;
sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians!&lt;br /&gt;
exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the fashion;&lt;br /&gt;
Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris may be&lt;br /&gt;
stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; then the&lt;br /&gt;
universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs its eyes,&lt;br /&gt;
says: &amp;quot;How stupid I am!&amp;quot; and bursts out laughing in the face of the human&lt;br /&gt;
race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this&lt;br /&gt;
grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all&lt;br /&gt;
this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and&lt;br /&gt;
that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day,&lt;br /&gt;
and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign joviality. Its&lt;br /&gt;
gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre.&lt;br /&gt;
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Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days,&lt;br /&gt;
its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of the&lt;br /&gt;
universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the mouth&lt;br /&gt;
of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. It&lt;br /&gt;
imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest&lt;br /&gt;
monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity&lt;br /&gt;
to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious 14th of July,&lt;br /&gt;
which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take the oath of&lt;br /&gt;
tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three hours a thousand&lt;br /&gt;
years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle of unanimous will; it&lt;br /&gt;
multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of the sublime; it fills with&lt;br /&gt;
its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin,&lt;br /&gt;
Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is everywhere where the future is being&lt;br /&gt;
lighted up, at Boston in 1779, at the Isle de Leon in 1820, at Pesth in&lt;br /&gt;
1848, at Palermo in 1860, it whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in&lt;br /&gt;
the ear of the American abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's&lt;br /&gt;
Ferry, and in the ear of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow,&lt;br /&gt;
to the Archi before the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it&lt;br /&gt;
creates Quiroga; it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it&lt;br /&gt;
was while proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at&lt;br /&gt;
Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under the&lt;br /&gt;
feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; its books,&lt;br /&gt;
its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its philosophy, are the&lt;br /&gt;
manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Regnier, Corneille, Descartes,&lt;br /&gt;
Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Moliere for all centuries; it&lt;br /&gt;
makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language&lt;br /&gt;
becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the&lt;br /&gt;
liberating dogmas which it forges are for the generations trusty friends,&lt;br /&gt;
and it is with the soul of its thinkers and its poets that all heroes of&lt;br /&gt;
all nations have been made since 1789; this does not prevent vagabondism,&lt;br /&gt;
and that enormous genius which is called Paris, while transfiguring the&lt;br /&gt;
world by its light, sketches in charcoal Bouginier's nose on the wall of&lt;br /&gt;
the temple of Theseus and writes Credeville the thief on the Pyramids.&lt;br /&gt;
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Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is laughing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A&lt;br /&gt;
heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is&lt;br /&gt;
more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring.&lt;br /&gt;
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To dare; that is the price of progress.&lt;br /&gt;
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All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In order&lt;br /&gt;
that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that&lt;br /&gt;
Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that&lt;br /&gt;
Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that&lt;br /&gt;
Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is&lt;br /&gt;
necessary that Danton should dare it.&lt;br /&gt;
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The cry: Audacity! is a Fiat lux. It is necessary, for the sake of the&lt;br /&gt;
forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons of&lt;br /&gt;
courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and are&lt;br /&gt;
one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. To&lt;br /&gt;
attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's self,&lt;br /&gt;
to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear&lt;br /&gt;
that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to insult drunken&lt;br /&gt;
victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; that is the&lt;br /&gt;
example which nations need, that is the light which electrifies them. The&lt;br /&gt;
same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch of Prometheus to&lt;br /&gt;
Cambronne's short pipe.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Translation notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Textual notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Citations==&lt;br /&gt;
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