Monday, March 21, 2011

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables - 1962

http://hugo-online.org/works/novels/1862-les-miserables/

It took him 17 years to write and he wrote most of it in exile from France on the Channel Island of Jersey.

http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/victor-hugo.htm

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...