ABSTRACT
Returning to the issues engaged in the previous chapters, this epilogue considers their renewed urgency—as well as their transformation—during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The discussion opens with the national traumas of 1870–71, which Hugo named l’Année terrible (The Terrible Year). Having addressed the enduring appeal of Napoleon, the epilogue concludes with the harsh, world-weary, fin-de-siècle Catholic revival.
