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Les Misérables: resumen de Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 2

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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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  1. A traveler enters Hougomont’s courtyard, where ordinary farm life surrounds buildings scarred by French assaults and English resistance.
  2. The ruined château and chapel preserve signs of close fighting, fire, and slaughter.
  3. A disused well contains three hundred bodies, while legend claims that voices sound after their burial.
  4. Guillaume van Kylsom’s granddaughter recalls fleeing into the woods as a small child.
  5. The garden and orchard reveal further killing, including six trapped infantrymen and French attacks against concealed English defenses.
  6. The narrator lists Hougomont’s losses and ends with a peasant offering to explain Waterloo for three francs.

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