Chapter 74: Chapter 74

III The Eighteenth of June, 1815 Let us turn back—that is one of the storyteller’s rights—and put ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took place. If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that Providence required in order to make Wa…