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continuing.

Les Miserables by Victor

Hugo chapter

17 is Waterloo to be

considered good? There

exists a very respectable liberal school which

does not hate Waterloo. We do not belong to

it. To us, Waterloo is but the

stupefied date of liberty. That such an

eagle should emerge from such an egg is certainly

unexpected if one

places oneself at the culminating point of view of the

question. Waterloo is

intentionally a counterrevolutionary victory.

It is Europe against France. It is

Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna against

Paris. It is the stata quo against the

initiative. It is the 14 July

1789 attacked through the 20 March

1815. It is the monarchies

clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French

rioting the final extinction of that

vast people which had been an eruption for 26

years. Such was the dream.

The solidarity of the Brunswicks, the Nassaus,

the Romanovs, the Hohenzollerns, the

Habsburgs, the Bourbons. Waterloo

bears divine right on its kupper.

It is true that the empire, having been

despotic the kingdom, by the natural reaction

of things, was forced to be liberal. And that a

constitutional order was the unwilling result of

Waterloo. To the great regret of the

conquerors. It is because

revolution cannot be really conquered. And

that, being providential and absolutely fatal, it is

always cropping up afresh. Before

Waterloo, in Bonaparte, overthrowing

the old thrones. After Waterloo, in

Louis XVIII, granting and conforming to the

charterhouse, Bonaparte places a

postilion on the throne of Naples. And a

sergeant on the throne of Sweden. Employing

inequality to demonstrate equality.

Louis XVIII at Saint Wen

countersigns the declaration of the Rights of man.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is,

call it progress. And if you wish to

acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it

tomorrow. Tomorrow fulfills its

work irresistibly. And it is already fulfilling

it today. it always reaches its goal. Strangely,

it employs Wellington to make a foy, who was only

a soldier and orator. Foy falls

at Hougoumont and rises again in the tribune.

Thus does progress proceed.

There is no such thing as a bad tool for that

workmande. It does not become

disconcerted, but adjusts to its

divine work. The man who has bestridden the alps.

And the good old tottering invalid of Father Liesy. it

makes use of the Gaudi man as well as of the conqueror.

Of the conqueror without. Of the gaudy man within.

Waterloo, by cutting short the demolition of european

thrones by the sword had no other

effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued

in another direction. The slashers

have finished. It was the turn of the

thinkers. The sentry that Waterloo was

intended to arrest has pursued its march.

That sinister victory was vanquished by

liberty. In short and

incontestably. That which triumphed at

Waterloo. That which smiled in

Wellingtons rear. That which brought him all the

marshal staffs of Europe, including, it is said,

the staff of a marshal of France. That which

joyously trundled the barrows full of bones to erect the knoll

of the lion. That which

triumphantly inscribed on that pedestal the date June 18,

1815. That which

encouraged Blucher as he put the flying army to the

sword. That which from the heights of the

plateau of Mont Saint John hovered over France as over its

prey was the counter revolution.

It was the counter revolution which murmured that infamous

word, dismemberment. On arriving

in Paris, it beheld the crater close at hand.

It felt those ashes which scorched its feet

and it changed its mind. It

returned to the stammer of a charter.

Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is

in Waterloo of intentional

liberty, there is none. The counter

revolution was involuntarily liberal in the

same manner as by a corresponding phenomenon.

Napoleon was involuntarily revolutionary.

On the 18 June 1815,

the mounted robespierre was hurled from his

saddle.

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