“Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!”

— Victor Hugo

L'Expiation http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%27Expiation, from Les Châtiments (1853), Book V

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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