Category: Historical Novels
I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE UNITED II. NIGHT WITH THE SHIP AND THE PASSENGER III. PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN UNITED IV. TORMENTUM BELLI V. VIS ET VIR VI. THE TWO ENDS OF THE SCALE VII. HE WHO SETS SAIL INVESTS IN A LOTTERY VIII. 9 : 380 IX. SOME ONE ESCAPES X. DOES HE ESCAPE?
The summer of 1792 had been a very rainy one; but that of 1793 was so extremely warm that, although the civil war had gone far towards ruining the roads in Brittany, the people-...
24. BOOK IV.That evening the mother, whom we have seen wandering onward with no settled plan, had walked all day long. This was, to be sure, a matter of every-day occurrence. She kept on he...
15. BOOK II.In the spring of 1793, when France, attacked at one and the same time on all her frontiers, experienced the pathetic diversion of the downfall of the Girondists, the following e...
27. BOOK VII.There was also to be seen a jug of water, a loaf of army bread, and a truss of straw. As the dungeon was cut out of solid rock, any prisoner who conceived the idea of setting th...
20. BOOK III.During its lifetime--an assembly actually lives--one did not realize what it was. Its supreme grandeur was not appreciated by its contemporaries, who were too much terrified to...
19. BOOK II.In the Rue du Paon there was an ale-house called by courtesy a café, and in this café a back-room which has since become famous in history. It was there that from time to time t...
17. BOOK IV.The old man waited until Halmalo was out of sight; then drawing his sea-cloak more closely around him, he started walking slowly, wrapt in thought. He took the direction of Huis...
21. BOOK I.There were in Brittany at that time seven much-dreaded forests. The Vendean war was a rebellion among priests, and the forest was their auxiliary. The spirits of darkness help o...
26. BOOK VI.The oubliette dungeon on the ground-floor of the Tourgue was forthwith reopened under Cimourdain's severe superintendence; a lamp was placed there, a jug of water, and a loaf of...
18. BOOK I.People lived in public; they ate at tables spread outside the doors; women sat on the church steps, making lint to the accompaniment of the Marseillaise; the park of Monceaux an...
23. BOOK III.Georgette, the youngest of the three, who last May was but a nursing infant, and now only twenty months old, lifted her little head, sat up in her cradle, looked at her toes, an...
16. BOOK III.He who had addressed him was about thirty years of age. The tan of the sea was upon his brow; there was something unusual about his eyes, as if the simple pupils of the peasant...
25. BOOK V.When Michelle Fléchard first perceived the tower reddened by the rays of the setting sun, it was more than a league away; and this woman, nothing daunted by the distance, though...
14. BOOK I.During the last days of May, 1793, one of the Parisian battalions introduced into Brittany by Santerre was reconnoitring the formidable La Saudraie Woods in Astillé. Decimated b...
8. BOOK II.I. PLUS QUAM CIVILIA BELLA II. DOL III. SMALL ARMIES AND GREAT BATTLES IV. A SECOND TIME V. A DROP OF COLD WATER VI. A HEALED BREAST, BUT A BLEEDING HEART VII. THE TWO POLES OF...
13. BOOK VII.10. BOOK IV.I. DEATH PASSES II. DEATH SPEAKS III. MUTTERINGS AMONG THE PEASANTS IV. A MISTAKE V. VOX IN DESERTO VI. THE SITUATION VII. PRELIMINARIES VIII. THE SPEECH AND THE ROAR IX. TITANS...
1. BOOK II.I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE UNITED II. NIGHT WITH THE SHIP AND THE PASSENGER III. PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN UNITED IV. TORMENTUM BELLI V. VIS ET VIR VI. THE TWO ENDS OF THE SCALE VII. HE...
3. BOOK IV.I. ON THE TOP OF THE DUNE II. AURES HABET, ET NON AUDIET III. THE USEFULNESS OF BIG LETTERS IV. THE CAIMAND V. WHEN HE AWOKE IT WAS DAYLIGHT VI. THE VICISSITUDES OF CIVIL WAR VI...
7. BOOK I.I. THE FORESTS II. MEN III. CONNIVANCE OF MEN AND FORESTS IV. THEIR LIFE UNDER GROUND V. THEIR LIFE IN WARFARE VI. THE SOUL OF THE EARTH PASSES INTO MAN VII. THE VENDÉE HAS RUIN...
5. BOOK II.11. BOOK V.4. BOOK I.2. BOOK III.12. BOOK VI.9. BOOK III.6. BOOK III.