1 It was a sort of symbol of popular force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 2 The popular instinct has never been deceived in it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 3 Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular redoubts abound.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 4 We make a distinction between one popular movement and another popular movement.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 5 The Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed by blue sky.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 6 Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage of the bourgeois.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 7 To make use of a trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked glum.
8 Revolutionary agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular sovereignty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 9 However, Gavroche was well up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his own chirpings.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ... 10 The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU 11 There are reputations which are deceptive; one does not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have been so popular.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 12 There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Siberia.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 13 In this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into contact.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 14 The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular coups d'etat and should be repressed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ... 15 It is a magnificent thing to put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the ocean.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 16 Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut les Quatre-Nations, and the Opera-Comique Feydeau, the precise spot whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called le Petit Picpus.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 17 According as one digs a longer or shorter distance into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provencal, Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic.
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