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Ninety – Three. French writer Victor Hugo

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Ninety – Three. Written by the great French writer Victor Hugo

 

Contents

 
    Part I. At sea
    Book I. The forest of la saudraie.
    Book II. The corvette “claymore.”
  I.  England and france united VI.  The two ends of the scale
  II.  Night with the ship and the passenger VII.  He who sets sail invests in a lottery
  III.  Patrician and plebeian united VIII.  9 : 380
  IV.  Tormentum belli IX.  Some one escapes
  V.  Vis et vir X.  Does he escape?
 
    Book III. Halmalo
  I.  Speech is word II.  A peasant’s memory is worth as much as the captain’s science
 
    Book IV. Tellmarch.
  I. On the top of the dune V.  When he awoke it was daylight
  II.  Aures habet, et non audiet VI.  The vicissitudes of civil war
  III.  The usefulness of big letters VII.  No mercy! No quarter!
  IV.  The caimand    
 
    Part II. At paris
    Book I. Cimourdain.
  I.  The streets of paris at that time III.  A corner not dipped into the styx
  II Cimourdain    
 
    Book II. The pot-house op the rue du paon
  I.  Minos, æacus, and rhadamanthus III.  A quivering of the inmost fibres
  II  Magna testantur voce per umbras    
 
  Book III. The convention
  I.  The convention II  Marat in the green-room
 
    Part III. In the vendée
    Book I. The vendée.
  I  The forests V.  Their life in warfare
  II.  Men VI  The soul of the earth passes into man
  III.  Connivance of men and forests VII.  The vendée has ruined brittany
  IV  Their life under ground    
 
  Book II. The three children.
  I.  Plus quam civilia bella VIII  Dolorosa
  II  Dol IX.  A provincial bastile
  III.  Small armies and great battles X.  The hostages
  IV  A second time XI  Terrible as the antique
  V.  A drop of cold water XII  The rescue planned
  VI  A healed breast, but a bleeding heart XIII  What the marquis is doing
  VII.  The two poles of truth XIV  What the imânus is doing
         
  Book III. The massacre of saint bartholomew.
  I  The massacre of saint bartholomew    
 
  Book IV. The mother
  I.  Death passes IX.  Titans against giants
  II.  Death speaks  X   Radoub
  III.  Mutterings among the peasants XI.  The desperate
  IV.  A mistake XII.  The deliverer
  V  Vox in deserto XIII.  The executioner
  VI.  The situation XIV  The imânus also escapes
  VII  Preliminaries XV.  Never put a watch and key in the same pocket
  VIII.  The speech and the roar    
 
  Book V. In dæmone deus
  I.  Found, but lost III.  Where the sleeping children wake
  II.  From the door of stone to that of iron    
 
  Book VI. After victory, struggle begins
  I  Lantenac taken III  The commander’s hood
  II.  Gauvain meditating    
 
  Book VII. Feudality and revolution
  I  The ancestor IV.  After cimourdain the judge, cimourdain the master
  II.  The court-martial V.  The dungeon
  III.  The votes VI.  Still the sun rises
 

 



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