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Contents BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC… More...

Contents BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND CHAPTER VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS CHAPTER IX. THE AFTERMATH BOOK II. CHAPTER I. THE TRESPASSERS CHAPTER II. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS CHAPTER II. THE COMIC MUSE CHAPTER IV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS CHAPTER V. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE CHAPTER VI. CLIMENE CHAPTER VII. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM CHAPTER IX. THE AWAKENING CHAPTER X. CONTRITION CHAPTER XI. THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU BOOK III. CHAPTER I. TRANSITION CHAPTER II. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE CHAPTER III. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER CHAPTER IV. AT MEUDON CHAPTER V. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL CHAPTER VI. POLITICIANS CHAPTER VII. THE SPADASSINICIDES CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD CHAPTER IX. TORN PRIDE CHAPTER X. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE CHAPTER XI. INFERENCES CHAPTER XII. THE OVERWHELMING REASON CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRIER CHAPTER XV. SAFE-CONDUCT CHAPTER XVI. SUNRISESCARAMOUCHEBOOK I: THE ROBECHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICANHe was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, althoughthe village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mysterythat hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as tobe deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possessthe virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason,announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence,and thereafter cares for the lad's rearing and education, the mostunsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. Andso the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on thescore of the real relationship between Andre-Louis Moreau--as the lad hadbeen named--and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in thebig grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clusteringbelow.Andre-Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged thewhile with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscalintendant, looked after the affairs of M. de Kercadiou. Thereafter, atthe age of fifteen, he had been packed off to Paris, to the Lycee ofLouis Le Grand, to study the law which he was now returned to practisein conjunction with Rabouillet. All this at the charges of hisgodfather, M. de Kercadiou, who by placing him once more under thetutelage of Rabouillet would seem thereby quite clearly to be makingprovision for his future.Andre-Louis, on his side, had made the most of his opportunities. Youbehold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enoughto produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. Out ofhis zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, fromSeneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable convictionhis earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his ownspecies. Nor can I discover that anything in his eventful life everafterwards caused him to waver in that opinion.In body he was a slight wisp of a fellow, scarcely above middle height,with a lean, astute countenance, prominent of nose and cheek-bones, andwith lank, black hair that reached almost to his shoulders. His mouthwas long, thin-lipped, and humorous. He was only just redeemed fromugliness by the splendour of a pair of ever-questing, luminous eyes, sodark as to be almost black. Of the whimsical quality of his mind andhis rare gift of graceful expression, his writings--unfortunately but tooscanty--and particularly his Confessions, afford us very ample evidence.Of his gift of oratory he was hardly conscious yet, although he hadalready achieved a certain fame for it in the Literary Chamber ofRennes--one of those clubs by now ubiquitous in the land, in which theintellectual youth of France foregathered to study and discuss thenew philosophies that were permeating social life. But the fame he hadacquired there was hardly enviable. He was too impish, too caustic,too much disposed--so thought his colleagues--to ridicule their sublimetheories for the regeneration of mankind. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, SAP Digital >16<

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Contents BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC… More...

Contents BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND CHAPTER VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS CHAPTER IX. THE AFTERMATH BOOK II. CHAPTER I. THE TRESPASSERS CHAPTER II. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS CHAPTER II. THE COMIC MUSE CHAPTER IV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS CHAPTER V. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE CHAPTER VI. CLIMENE CHAPTER VII. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM CHAPTER IX. THE AWAKENING CHAPTER X. CONTRITION CHAPTER XI. THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU BOOK III. CHAPTER I. TRANSITION CHAPTER II. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE CHAPTER III. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER CHAPTER IV. AT MEUDON CHAPTER V. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL CHAPTER VI. POLITICIANS CHAPTER VII. THE SPADASSINICIDES CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD CHAPTER IX. TORN PRIDE CHAPTER X. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE CHAPTER XI. INFERENCES CHAPTER XII. THE OVERWHELMING REASON CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRIER CHAPTER XV. SAFE-CONDUCT CHAPTER XVI. SUNRISESCARAMOUCHEBOOK I: THE ROBECHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICANHe was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, althoughthe village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mysterythat hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as tobe deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possessthe virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason,announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence,and thereafter cares for the lad's rearing and education, the mostunsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. Andso the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on thescore of the real relationship between Andre-Louis Moreau--as the lad hadbeen named--and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in thebig grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clusteringbelow.Andre-Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged thewhile with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscalintendant, looked after the affairs of M. de Kercadiou. Thereafter, atthe age of fifteen, he had been packed off to Paris, to the Lycee ofLouis Le Grand, to study the law which he was now returned to practisein conjunction with Rabouillet. All this at the charges of hisgodfather, M. de Kercadiou, who by placing him once more under thetutelage of Rabouillet would seem thereby quite clearly to be makingprovision for his future.Andre-Louis, on his side, had made the most of his opportunities. Youbehold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enoughto produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. Out ofhis zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, fromSeneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable convictionhis earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his ownspecies. Nor can I discover that anything in his eventful life everafterwards caused him to waver in that opinion.In body he was a slight wisp of a fellow, scarcely above middle height,with a lean, astute countenance, prominent of nose and cheek-bones, andwith lank, black hair that reached almost to his shoulders. His mouthwas long, thin-lipped, and humorous. He was only just redeemed fromugliness by the splendour of a pair of ever-questing, luminous eyes, sodark as to be almost black. Of the whimsical quality of his mind andhis rare gift of graceful expression, his writings--unfortunately but tooscanty--and particularly his Confessions, afford us very ample evidence.Of his gift of oratory he was hardly conscious yet, although he hadalready achieved a certain fame for it in the Literary Chamber ofRennes--one of those clubs by now ubiquitous in the land, in which theintellectual youth of France foregathered to study and discuss thenew philosophies that were permeating social life. But the fame he hadacquired there was hardly enviable. He was too impish, too caustic,too much disposed--so thought his colleagues--to ridicule their sublimetheories for the regeneration of mankind. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, SAP Digital >16<

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