Title: how the French were polarized and Napoleonic dream lost through only a few generations
Review: The proud nation had stringent laws with disproportinate penaltiy for petty offense illustrated in the case of Jean Valjean, the victim of the system. Fearing to be identified and returned to the galley, he became so humble and passive as to be at the mercy of the most advanced of scheming and blackmail and threat of exposure. One love was left to him - Cosette - yet even she was kept away from him - by a jealousworthless lover who relented only too late; the ultimately high-minded man of great physical strength expired and passed to the realm of the angels, divested of the will to save himself.Victor Hugo was a writer who detailed both sides of each dilemma and his use of vocabulary appropriately fits to clarify his point.At times the writng becomes repetitive and the reading is tedious. Such, however, is the price extracted for this experience of the writng of this literary seer, a genius of his time.
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