Nanon - 9 Author:George Sand Volume: 9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Description: " Alors, tout ce que les forces humaines peuvent donner à la volonté, je l'exigeais des miennes, je courus sans plus me soucier de savoir où j'étais. Sourde au vacarme de la foudre qui semblait se précipiter sur les t... more »races de la voiture et que j'attirais aussi en lui ouvrant par ma course folle un courant d'air à suivre, je dévorais l'espace. J'aurais peut-être rejoint la voiture, lorsqu'un réseau de feu m'enveloppa. Je vis tomber à dix pas de moi une boule blanche dont l'éclat m'éblouit au point de me rendre aveugle, et la commotion me renversa violemment sur mon pauvre âne, renversé aussi " Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / European / German Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. Then the doors of the Monastery were opened to a dozen of the most reasonable of the parishioners, and they were shown through all the rooms to prove to them that there were neither cannon, swords, nor muskets there ; but little Anguilloux, who had helped the masons when they repaired the wine-cellar, said that he had seen plenty of arms in the vaults of the Monastery, -- and there in fact our men found a quantity of old arquebuses not fit for service, match-locks of the time of the Wars of Religion, and a number of rusty partisans without their staves. They took possession of all these, and carried them out on to the open space, where everybody appropriated what he pleased. The arquebuses and the muskets were good for nothing, but the pike-heads were perfect, and their new owners began at once to rub them b...« less