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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing les miserable by Victor

Hugo chapter

four a.

Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the

Battle of Waterloo have only to place

mentally, on the ground, a capital a.

The left limb of the a is the road to nival.

The right limb is the road to Genappe. The

tie of the a is the hollow road to Ohain from

Bran Laode. The top of the a is Mont M,

Saint Jean, where Wellington is. The

lower left tip is Hougoumont, where rail

is stationed with Jerome Bonaparte. The right

tip is the Belle alliance, where Napoleon was

at. The center of this court is the precise

point where the final word of the battle was pronounced.

It was there that the lion has been placed,

the involuntary symbol of the supreme heroism of the imperial

guard. The triangle included

in the top of the a between the two limbs and the

tie, is the plateau of Mont Saint Jean.

The dispute over this plateau constituted the whole

battle. The wings of the two armies

extended to the right and left of the two roads to

Dienappe and Nevay. Dirlon facing

Picton, rail facing hill.

Behind the tip of the a, behind the plateau of Mont Saint

Jean is the forest of soignes.

As for the plain itself, let the reader

picture to himself a vast, undulating sweep of

ground. Each rise commands the next

rise, and all the undulations mount

towards Mont Saint John. And their end

in the forest, two hostile troops on

a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is

a question of seizing the opponent round the waist.

The one seeks to trip up the other.

They clutch at everything. A bush is a

point of support. An angle of the wall offers

them a rest to the shoulder for the lack of a

hovel under whose cover they can draw up. a regiment yields its

ground. An unevenness in the ground,

a chance turn in the landscape. A

crosspath encountered at the right moment, a

grove, a ravine can stay the heel of that

colossus which is called an army and prevent its

retreat. He who quits the field

is beaten. Hence the necessity, devolving

on the responsible leader, of examining the most

insignificant clump of trees and of studying deeply

the slightest relief in the ground. The two

generals had attentively studied the plain of Mount St. John,

now called the plain of Waterloo. In the

preceding year, Wellington, with a sagacity of

foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of a great

battle upon this spot. And

for this duel on the 18 June,

Wellington had the good post, Napoleon

had the bad post. The english army was stationed

above, the french army below.

It is almost superfluous here to sketch the

appearance of Napoleon on horseback, glass in

hand, upon the heights of Ross Homme at daybreak

on June 18, 1815.

all the world has seen him before. We can show him

that calm profile under the little three cornered hat

of the school of brain, that green

uniform, the white rivers concealing the star of

the Legion of Honor. His greatcoat hiding

his epaulettes. The corner of red ribbon

peeping from beneath his vest. His leather

trousers. The white horse with the saddle

cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners, crowned

ends and eagles, hessian boots

over silk stockings, silver spurs.

The sword of Marengo. That whole figure of the

last of the Caesars is present to all imaginations,

saluted with acclamations by some,

severely regarded by others.

That figure stood for a long time, wholly in the

light. This arose from a certain

legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes,

and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter

time. But today, history and

daylight have arrived. That light called

history is pitiless. It possesses this

peculiar and divine quality, that

pure light. As it is, and precisely because

it is holy light, it often casts a shadow

and places where people had hitherto beheld rays

from the same man. It constructs two different

phantoms, and the one attacks the other

and executes justice on it. And the shadows of the

despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader.

Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive

judgments of nations. Babylon

violated lessons Alexander Rome in

chained lessons Caesar Jerusalem murdered

lessons Titus Tyranny follows the

tyrant. It is a misfortune for a man to

leave behind him the night which bears his form.

Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while we

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Again, my name is Bree Carlisle, and I

hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite

of Les Miserable.

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>> Speaker D: Take a look and a poke and let's

see what we can find

take a chapter by chapter,

one at a.

>> Speaker A: Time.

>> Speaker D: Mountains we can climb.

>> Speaker A: Take your.

>> Speaker D: Word for word line by line.

>> Speaker A: One bite at a time.