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I have just conquered Waterloo!

What Hugo seems to be trying to say in these chapters, as best I can tell (in that he says it outright over and over in slightly different words, although this being Hugo he also says many other things some of which are contradictory) is that the outcome of the battle was due, not to one general being better than another or one army being stronger, but due to the fact that Fate had turned against Napoleon (fate/destiny/luck/the will of God/natural law/the Force/narrative causality/the balance of the universe/whatever you want to call it.)

And ignoring if I can the question of actual reality - which apparently has only a loose relationship to Hugo's Waterloo anyway - I am fascinated by this argument, and especially the way we get it right after Valjean's desperate ride to Arras. )

Anyway! I have many thoughts on Waterloo! Does anyone have any thoughts on Waterloo to share?

(Also other people should post other stuff to this comm or else it'll just be me going on about Waterloo until I'm worse than Victor Hugo! I can post on Waterloo all week if you make me. I HAVE THE MATERIAL.)
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This comm is officially open for posts!

Come one, come all. The hope is that this will be a broad-ranging home for Les Mis fandom on DW, since we don't seem to have one; we can split off side comms if it gets enough traffic to warrant it (and anyone who wants to make a side comm should always feel free to, obviously), but at the moment pretty much anything goes, within the loose guidelines mentioned on the profile. (Basically: don't be a jerk to anybody on the comm, and link to fanworks rather than posting the whole thing here.)

I'm [personal profile] genarti, and I'm the mod in that I'm the one who started the comm, but I'm hoping this isn't going to be the kind of community that really needs much modding work. If you've joined the comm, you can post to it, so please do!

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