Les Misérables Volume II Book 1 Chapter 1 - What Is Met with on the Way to Nivelles

In which a pilgrim on a tranquil May morning journeys through the gentle undulations of the Walloon countryside, pausing by a weathered door marked with the solemn vestiges of war and meeting a simple peasant who reveals its grim history. The tranquil charm of the landscape belies the somber memory held within the stones, as the traveller stands upon the hallowed ground of Waterloo.