Les Misérables: resumen de Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 1
Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 1 de 365 · 3 min para leer el chapter
In Chapter 1, the traveler who tells the story follows a country road and examines marks beside a closed doorway, where a peasant woman identifies damage from a French cannonball and an iron bullet. Her naming of Hougomont, followed by his sight of a distant shape resembling a lion, reveals that he stands on the battlefield of Waterloo.
Qué sucede
- On a May morning in 1861, the traveler walks from Nivelles toward La Hulpe through green countryside.
- He leaves the road beside an inn and follows a rough path to an old stone doorway.
- He examines a circular hollow in the stone as a peasant woman emerges through the door.
- The woman explains the cannonball and bullet marks, then names the place Hougomont.
- The traveler sees a distant shape resembling a lion and recognizes the battlefield of Waterloo.
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En qué fijarte
The final sentence identifies the landscape. It connects the quiet walk and the damaged doorway to a battlefield.
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What does the peasant woman say made the hollow in the stone?
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