#i mis 1964

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Hindrances, LM 1.7.5 ( I miserabili 1964)

“Monsieur,” said the woman, “my boy tells me that you wish to hire a cabriolet.”

These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready to seize him once more.

He answered:—

“Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire.”

And he hastened to add:—

“But there is none in the place.”

“Certainly there is,” said the old woman.

“Where?” interpolated the wheelwright.

“At my house,” replied the old woman.

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other , LM 1.3.6 ( I miserabili 1964)

Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:—

“So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?”

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The Unexpected, LM 2.1.9 (I miserabili 1964)

Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God.

Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had declared itself long before.

It was time that this vast man should fall.

The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man,—this would be mortal to civilization were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,—these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.

Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on.

He embarrassed God.

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The Last Square, LM 2.1.14 (I miserabili 1964)

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Four O'Clock in the Afternoon, LM 2.1.6 (I miserabili 1964) 

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430, LM 2.2.1 (I miserabili 1964)

These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence.

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow, LM 2.1.11 (I miserabili 1964)

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, LM 2.1.10 (I miserabili 1964)