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Review - Tale of the Miserables
by: Faroghe Azzam
Indeed Victor Hugo's masterpiece 'The Miserables' tells a story of "a saint, a man,
a woman, and a child,". The story covers a large portion of Revolutionary French
history. The battle of Waterloo, the revolving door of governments, and the numerous
street barricade rebellions of the city of Paris during the 1830s all serve as a
background for the story. The French word "miserables" means both poor wretches
and scoundrels or villains.
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