The Works of Honore ́ De Balzac, Vol. 16

Excerpt from The Works of Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 16: The Chouans; A Passion in the Desert; The Brotherhood of Consolation Z. Marcas Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vende miaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards th close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasant and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougere in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way betwee: Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where traveller along that road are in the habit of resting. This com pany, divided into groups that were more or less nu merous, presented a collection of such fantastic costume and a mixture of individuals belonging to so many an: diverse localities and professions that it will be we to describe their characteristic difl'erences, in order t give to this history the vivid local coloring to which s much value is attached in these days, -though som critics do assert that it injures the representation c sentiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.