Les Misérables: resumen de Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 2
Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 2 de 365 · 11 min para leer el chapter
In Chapter 2, a traveler explores Hougomont, where ruined buildings, damaged trees, and a well filled with bodies preserve the violence of Waterloo. The account reconstructs French assaults and English resistance, contrasts present farm life with mass death, and ends with a peasant offering a paid explanation of the battle.
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- A traveler enters Hougomont’s courtyard, where ordinary farm life surrounds buildings scarred by French assaults and English resistance.
- The ruined château and chapel preserve signs of close fighting, fire, and slaughter.
- A disused well contains three hundred bodies, while legend claims that voices sound after their burial.
- Guillaume van Kylsom’s granddaughter recalls fleeing into the woods as a small child.
- The garden and orchard reveal further killing, including six trapped infantrymen and French attacks against concealed English defenses.
- The narrator lists Hougomont’s losses and ends with a peasant offering to explain Waterloo for three francs.

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