1 La Vendee is a grand, catholic uprising.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 2 An uprising being given, we examine it by itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 3 These pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 4 The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 5 We do not inquire whether an uprising costs as much as a battle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 6 For our parts, we reject this word uprisings as too large, and consequently as too convenient.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 7 That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 8 Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 9 Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 10 Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of the rebellious quarters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 11 Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 12 There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the wrong, the other is in the right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 13 Thus they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings into the balance its flaming archangel's sword.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 14 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 15 At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and normal Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 16 No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 17 It has been calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty ships of the line.
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