The Road to Brussels
“History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.”
— Henry Kissinger, quoted in
Drama of the Diagonal, Part Deux
racontent la même comédie….“
— Alain Boublil
Drama of the Diagonal, Part Deux
“Les livres d’histoire et la vie
racontent la même comédie….“
— Alain Boublil
“Along the road from Ohain to Braine-l’Alleud that hemmed in the plain of Mont-St-Jean and cut at right angles the road to Brussels, which the Emperor wished to take, he [Wellington] had placed 67,000 men and 184 cannons.”
The Emperor’s Welcome
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“Les livres d’histoire et la vie
racontent la même comédie…
Wa wa wa wa Waterloo;
il est arrivé mon Waterloo.”
— Dominique de Villepin