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Commit neither the error of the naive reader, who is depressed by massacres and legal tortures and who congratulates himself upon living in the twentieth century, nor that of the reader of historical novels, who safely delight in the splendid crimes and scandals of the past—above all, let us note envy the past its stability...

"Ah, Mon Beau Chateau... "

-MARGUERITE YOURCENAR