So this Then is The Battle of Waterloo Author:Victor Hugo Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The wayfarer drew himself up, he walked a few steps, and then looked over the hedge so- He could see on the horizon through the trees a species of mound, and... more » on this mound something which, at a distance, resembled a lion so. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. Hougomont HIS estate was a mournful spot, the beginning of the obstacle, the first resistance which that great woodman of Europe, called Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo; the first knot under the axe-blade. It was a chateau, and is now but a farm. For the antiquarian Hougomont is Hugo-mons; it was built by Hugo, Sire de Sommeril, the same who endowed the sixth chap- elry of the abbey of Villers. The wayfarer pushed open the door, elbowed an old caleche under a porch,« less