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Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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1 There were still Prussians in France.
2 The whole of that plain is a sepulchre for France.
3 Zieten putting France to the sword at its leisure.
4 Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in a scabbard.
5 Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was menaced, I offered my breast.
6 Myriel was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy convened at Paris.
7 In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the features of a new France were sketched out.
8 Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study.
9 The quarrel over the valley of Dappes was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, afterwards General Dufour.
10 He created at his own expense an infant school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old and infirm workmen.
11 As he had not voted for the death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and had been able to remain in France.
12 Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: a certain Lord Baron.
13 One of the most undisputed forms of the health of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and over the continent.
14 He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the remnant of Gaspard Bes's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his way to Piedmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity of Barcelonette.
15 It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action.
16 My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door.
17 The flower-beds of Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds.
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