A lengthy digression in one novel devoted to describing this event explains it with a capital letter placed over the ground in a chapter titled “A.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event, after which a dying man attempts to give his valuables to a “night prowler.” The protagonist of another novel, who kills a man during this event before later killing Giletti, becomes obsessed over the question of whether he participated in this event while returning home using fake passports.
ANSWER: Battle of Waterloo [prompt on the Napoleonic Wars]
[10m] The Contessa sends fake passports to assist her nephew in this novel. Priore Blanès compares the prison of Waterloo to the future imprisonment of this novel’s protagonist, during which he falls in love with Clélia Conti.
ANSWER: The Charterhouse of Parma
[10e] This author and contemporary of Stendhal detailed the events of Waterloo and the death of Colonel Baron Pontmercy in the “Cosette” volume of his historical epic Les Misérables.
ANSWER: Victor Hugo
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