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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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fight M at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
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>> Brie Carlisle: Today well be continuing. Les Miserable
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by Victor Hugo
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chapter twelve the guard
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everyone knows the rest. The eruption
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of a third army. The battle broke into pieces,
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86 months of fire thundering
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simultaneously. March I
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coming up with bulow zietens cavalry led by
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Blucher. In person, the French driven
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back marcignet swept from the
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plateau of ohainous derat dislodged from
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Papelotte, Danselot and Quillot
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retreating, Lebau caught on the flank,
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a fresh battle precipitating itself on our dismantled
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regiments. At nightfall, the whole english
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line resuming the offensive and thrust forward.
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The gigantic breach made in the french army,
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the english grapeshot and the prussian grape shot
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aiding each other. The extermination
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disaster in front, disaster on the flank, the
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guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of
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all things conscious that they were
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about to die, they shouted, vive
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l'Emperor. History records nothing
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more touching than that agony bursting forth in
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acclamations. The sky had been
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overcast all day long. All of a
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sudden, at that very moment, it was 08:00
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in the evening. The clouds on the horizon parted
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and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to pass
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through. Athwart the elms on the Niveal
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road, they had seen it rise at
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Austerlitz. Each battalion of the guard
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was commanded by a general for this final catastrophe.
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Friant, Michel, Ruget, Harlot,
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Mallet, poir de Morven were there
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when the tall caps of the grenadiers of the guard,
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with their large plaques bearing the eagle, appeared
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symmetrical in line, tranquil. In
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the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a
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respect for France. They thought they
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beheld 20 victories entering the field of battle
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with wings outspread. And those who were the
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conquerors, believing themselves to be vanquished,
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retreated. But Wellington
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shouted up guards, and aim
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straight. The red regiment of english
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guards lying flat behind the hedges,
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sprang up. A cloud of grapeshot riddled the
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tricoloured flag and whistled round our eagles.
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All hurled themselves forwards, and the final carnage
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began. In the darkness, the imperial
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guard felt the army losing ground around it.
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And in the vast shock of the rout, it heard the desperate
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flight which had taken the place of the vive lemperor.
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And with flight behind it, it continued to
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advance. More crushed, losing more men at
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every step that it took. There were none who
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hesitated. No timid men in
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its ranks. The soldier in that troop was as
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much of a hero as the general. Not a man
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was missing in that suicide. Ney,
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bewildered, great, with all the grandeur of accepted death,
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offered himself to all blows. In that tempest.
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He had his fifth horse killed under him. There,
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perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth with
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uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half
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cut off by a sword stroke from a horse guardhouse. His
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plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet,
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bleeding the mired magnificent. A
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broken sword in his hand. He said, come and
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see how a marshal of France dies on the field of battle.
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But in vain. He did not die. He
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was haggard and angry. At, Druitt d'Erlan,
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he hurled this. Are you not going to get yourself
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killed? In the midst of all that
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artillery, engaged in crushing a handful of men, he
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shouted, so there is nothing for me.
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Oh, I should like to have all these english bullets enter my
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bowels. Unhappy
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man. Thou art reserved for
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french bullets.
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Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while
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we read a.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Bite of one of your favorite classics again.
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My name is Bree carlisle.
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>> Brie Carlisle: And I hope you come back tomorrow for the next
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bite of, les miserable.
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>> Speaker D: take a look and a book and let's
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see what we can find.
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Take it chapter by chapter,
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one at a time
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adventures and mountains we
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can climb
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take your words go word, line.
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>> Speaker A: By line one bite at a time.
