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Afterwords
Did you miss the meeting? Or did we fail to discuss all the questions? Perhaps something slipped your mind, or only occurred to you later. If so, here's your chance to continue the conversation. For the time being, this blog is open for comment only to registered members of the book group. Other readers may contact me at hcrane@cambridgema.gov. Please, no flaming or cussing.
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2 comments:
Possibly Hugo wanted to assuage his conscience, since he had helped to put down the 1848 rebellion, by writing a respectful description of its participants. Also, he might simply have included it because it was an outcome of the 1832 barricade, such an important part of the story. It is yet another manifestation of the spirit of revolution against the privileged, which the whole book is about.
I'm with Jane on this one,on both counts, but I tend to weigh more strongly her first reason, that he wanted to atone for his own actions in 1848.
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