Chapter 15
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 1: 1: Waterloo
15: Cambronne
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OUT of respect to the French reader, the finest word, perhaps, that a Frenchman ever uttered cannot be repeated to him. We are prohibited from embalming a sublimity in history.
At our own risk and peril, we violate that prohibition.