A young Italian nobleman wanders onto the field at Waterloo without understanding a thing he sees, and spends the rest of the book in the intrigues of a small court. Stendhal dictated it in fifty-two days at fifty-five; Balzac wrote a seventy-page review calling it a masterpiece and nobody else noticed for sixty years.
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