Lance Mannion: The price of Waterloo

Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, fire, slaughter, carnage, a stream of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the regiment of Brunswick wiped out, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the English Guards savaged, twenty French battalions, besides the forty from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say today to the traveller: “Monsieur, give me three francs, and I will tell you the story of Waterloo!”

---from “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo.

Lance Mannion on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 in Bedtime Reading, First as tragedy, then as farce | Permalink

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