But he deceived them a third time; when he made them think he was dead; and had done nothing.
In spite of the unbridled verse of Hugo and the even more unbridled prose of Kinglake, Napoleon III.

is really and solely discredited in history because of the catastrophe of 1870.

Hugo hurled any amount of lightning on Louis Napoleon; but he threw very little light on him.

Some passages in the "Chatiments" are really caricatures carved in eternal marble.

They will always be valuable in reminding generations too vague and soft, as were the Victorians, of the great truth that hatred is beautiful, when it is hatred of the ugliness of the soul.