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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:
This encomium to the working class is set during a political period (the early years of the restoration of the monarchy) which was like a Sunday idyll for France, after the violence of the Revolutionary years. The report on the faubourg residents which Hugo mentions underestimates them as "Carefree and indolent as cats," "small men," but Hugo warns that cats can turn into lions. Sunday idylls are brief.
This encomium to the working class is set during a political period (the early years of the restoration of the monarchy) which was like a Sunday idyll for France, after the violence of the Revolutionary years. The report on the faubourg residents which Hugo mentions underestimates them as "Carefree and indolent as cats," "small men," but Hugo warns that cats can turn into lions.
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