Redoubt
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER II WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE
Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but it was formidable for that [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XI THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
The assailants’ fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated,but without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of the Corinthe facade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaiens, were slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XV GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XVII MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of cartridges; Marius bore the child. “Alas!” he thought, “that which the father had done for his father,he was requiting to the son; only, Thenardier had brought back his father alive; he was [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XXI THE HEROES
All at once, the drum beat the charge. The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness,the barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, the army [...]
Les Miserables 5 Jean Valjean BOOK FIRST. THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER XXII FOOT TO FOOT
When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, had made a rather large hollow in the [...]
Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK FOURTEENTH. THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR CHAPTER V END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE
All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. “Here you are!” “What luck!” said Combeferre. “You came in opportunely!” ejaculated Bossuet. “If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!”began Courfeyrac again. “If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!”added Gavroche. Marius asked:– “Where is [...]
Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK THIRTEENTH. MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW CHAPTER II AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS
A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. All that old quarter of the Hales, which is like a city within a city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a thousand lanes [...]
Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK TWELFTH. CORINTHE CHAPTER V PREPARATIONS
The journals of the day which said that that nearly impregnable structure, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was built in [...]
Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK TWELFTH. CORINTHE CHAPTER VI WAITING
During those hours of waiting, what did they do? We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on [...]