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E-kniha A Beleaguered City: Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen byla úspěšně přidána do košíku.
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A Beleaguered City: Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen
Autor: Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret
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ISBN: 9781443209649
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243 Kč
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221 Kč
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Excerpt: A Beleaguered City, being A Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne A Story of the Seen and the Unseen By Mrs. Oliphant 1900 THE AUTHOR inscribes this little Book, with tender and grateful greetings, to those whose sympathy has supported her through many and long years, the kind audience of her UNKNOWN FRIENDS. Contents THE NARRATIVE OF M. LE MAIRE: THE CONDITION OF THE CITY. THE NARRATIVE OF M. LE MAIRE CONTINUED: BEGINNING OF THE LATE REMARKABLE EVENTS. EXPULSION OF THE INHABITANTS. OUTSIDE THE WALLS. THE NARRATIVE OF PAUL LECAMUS. M. LE MAIRE RESUMES HIS NARRATIVE. SUPPLEMENT BY M. DE BOIS-SOMBRE. EXTRACT FROM THE NARRATIVE OF MADAME DUPIN DE LA CLAIRIRE (ne DE CHAMPFLEURIE). THE NARRATIVE of MADAME VEUVE DUPIN (ne LEPELLETIER). M. LE MAIRE CONCLUDES HIS RECORD. THE NARRATIVE OF M. LE MAIRE: THE CONDITION OF THE CITY. I, Martin Dupin (de la Clairire), had the honour of holding the office of Maire in the town of Semur, in the Haute Bourgogne, at the time when the following events occurred. It will be perceived, therefore, that no one could have more complete knowledge of the factsat once from my official position, and from the place of eminence in the affairs of the district generally which my family has held for many generationsby what citizen-like virtues and unblemished integrity I will not be vain enough to specify. Nor is it necessary; for no one who knows Semur can be ignorant of the position held by the Dupins, from father to son. The estate La Clairire has been so long in the family that we might very well, were we disposed, add its name to our own, as so many families in France do; and, indeed, I do not prevent my wife (whose prejudices I respect) from making this use of it upon her cards. But, for myself, bourgeois I was born and bourgeois I mean to die. My residence, like that of my father and grandfather, is at No. 29 in the Grande Rue, opposite the Cathedral, and not far from...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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