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| 1e56305 | What was the battle? What were the aims of the romantics? Why was the subject the focus of such violent interest? Hugo and his generation were all 'enfants du siecle', all, give or take a year or two, born with the century. Brought up amidst the dramas of Napoleon's wars, they had reached manhood to the anticlimax of peace and Bourbon rule. Restless and dissatisfied, their dreams of military glory frustrated, they had turned them- sel.. | Linda Kelly |