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HOUGOMONT this was the fatal spot, the beginning of the resistance, the first check encountered at Waterloo by this great butcher of Europe, called Napoleon; the first knot under the axe.
It was a chateau; it is now nothing more than a farm. Hougomont, to the antiquary, is Hugomons. This manor was built by Hugo, sire de Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplainship of the abbey of Villiers.