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Week 15 Recap: Disillusionment
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Week 15 Recap: Disillusionment

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Napoleon cartoon, 1805, by James Gillray, often titled “The Plumb-pudding in danger”

This week we read the end of Volume II, Part II and started on Part III. At the end of Part II, Rostov is finding the same disillusionment with Napoleon that Bolksonky discovered back in week 9.

When Napoleon met the Russian Czar, there seemed to be a mutual admiration a…

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