ludlaw

Updated: May 24, 2025

Cromwell, the oldest of the Bonapartes, when he achieved his Eighteenth Brumaire, encountered scarcely any other resistance than a few imprecations from Milton and from Ludlaw, and was able to say in his boorishly gigantic language, "I have put the King in my knapsack and the Parliament in my pocket." We must go back to the Roman Senate in order to find true Curule chairs.

Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness