The Revolt of the Angels. Anatole France
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Название: The Revolt of the Angels
Автор: Anatole France
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
isbn: 9781420970012
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THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS
By ANATOLE FRANCE
Translated by WILFRID JACKSON
The Revolt of the Angels
By Anatole France
Translated by Wilfrid Jackson
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7000-5
eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7001-2
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Cover Image: a detail of “The Fall of the Rebel Angels”, by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (c. 1525-69), c. 1562 / Bridgeman Images.
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CONTENTS
Chapter I
CONTAINING IN A FEW LINES THE HISTORY OF A FRENCH FAMILY FROM 1789 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Beneath the shadow of St. Sulpice the ancient mansion of the d’Esparvieu family rears its austere three stories between a moss-grown fore-court and a garden hemmed in, as the years have elapsed, by ever loftier and more intrusive buildings, wherein, nevertheless, two tall chestnut trees still lift their withered heads.
Here from 1825 to 1857 dwelt the great man of the family, Alexandre Bussart d’Esparvieu, Vice-President of the Council of State under the Government of July, Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and author of an Essay on the Civil and Religious Institutions of Nations, in three octavo volumes, a work unfortunately left incomplete.
This eminent theorist of a Liberal monarchy left as heir to his name his fortune and his fame, Fulgence-Adolphe Bussart d’Esparvieu, senator under the Second Empire, who added largely to his patrimony by buying land over which the Avenue de l’Impératice was destined ultimately to pass, and СКАЧАТЬ