Ninety-Three

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Victor Hugo. Ninety-Three

PART I. AT SEA

BOOK I. THE FOREST OF LA SAUDRAIE

BOOK II. THE CORVETTE "CLAYMORE."

I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE UNITED

II. NIGHT WITH THE SHIP AND THE PASSENGER

III. PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN UNITED

IV. TORMENTUM BELLI

V. VIS ET VIR

VI. THE TWO ENDS OF THE SCALE

VII. HE WHO SETS SAIL INVESTS IN A LOTTERY

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IX. SOME ONE ESCAPES

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

II. AURES HABET, ET NON AUDIET

III. THE USEFULNESS OF BIG LETTERS

IV. THE CAIMAND

V. WHEN HE AWOKE IT WAS DAYLIGHT

VI. THE VICISSITUDES OF CIVIL WAR

VII. NO MERCY!5NO QUARTER!6

PART II. AT PARIS

BOOK I. CIMOURDAIN

I. THE STREETS OF PARIS AT THAT TIME

II. CIMOURDAIN

III. A CORNER NOT DIPPED INTO THE STYX

BOOK II. THE POT-HOUSE OF THE RUE DU PAON

I. MINOS, ÆACUS, AND RHADAMANTHUS

II. MAGNA TESTANTUR VOCE PER UMBRAS

III. A QUIVERING OF THE INMOST FIBRES

BOOK III. THE CONVENTION

I. THE CONVENTION

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

II. MARAT IN THE GREEN-ROOM

PART III. IN THE VENDÉE

BOOK I. THE VENDÉE

I. THE FORESTS

II. MEN

III. CONNIVANCE OF MEN AND FORESTS

IV. THEIR LIFE UNDER GROUND

V. THEIR LIFE IN WARFARE

VI. THE SOUL OF THE EARTH PASSES INTO MAN

VII. THE VENDÉE HAS RUINED BRITTANY

BOOK II. THE THREE CHILDREN

I. PLUS QUAM CIVILIA BELLA

II. DOL

III. SMALL ARMIES AND GREAT BATTLES

IV. A SECOND TIME

V. A DROP OF COLD WATER

VI. A HEALED BREAST, BUT A BLEEDING HEART

VII. THE TWO POLES OF TRUTH

VIII. DOLOROSA

IX. A PROVINCIAL BASTILE

I. LA TOURGUE

II. THE BREACH

III. THE OUBLIETTE

IV. THE BRIDGE-CASTLE

V. THE IRON DOOR

VI. THE LIBRARY

VII. THE GRANARY

X. THE HOSTAGES

XI. TERRIBLE AS THE ANTIQUE

XII. THE RESCUE PLANNED

XIII. WHAT THE MARQUIS IS DOING

XIV. WHAT THE IMÂNUS IS DOING

BOOK III

I. THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

BOOK IV. THE MOTHER

I. DEATH PASSES

II. DEATH SPEAKS

III. MUTTERINGS AMONG THE PEASANTS

IV. A MISTAKE

V. VOX IN DESERTO

VI. THE SITUATION

VII. PRELIMINARIES

VIII. THE SPEECH AND THE ROAR

IX. TITANS AGAINST GIANTS

X. RADOUB

XI. THE DESPERATE

XII. THE DELIVERER

XIII. THE EXECUTIONER

XIV. THE IMÂNUS ALSO ESCAPES

XV. NEVER PUT A WATCH AND KEY IN THE SAME POCKET

BOOK V. IN DÆMONE DEUS

I. FOUND, BUT LOST

II. FROM THE DOOR OF STONE TO THAT OF IRON

III. WHERE THE SLEEPING CHILDREN WAKE

BOOK VI. AFTER VICTORY, STRUGGLE BEGINS

I. LANTENAC TAKEN

II. GAUVAIN MEDITATING

III. THE COMMANDER'S HOOD

BOOK VII. FEUDALITY AND REVOLUTION

I. THE ANCESTOR

II. THE COURT-MARTIAL

III. THE VOTES

IV. AFTER CIMOURDAIN THE JUDGE, CIMOURDAIN THE MASTER

V. THE DUNGEON

VI. STILL THE SUN RISES

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During the last days of May, 1793, one of the Parisian battalions introduced into Brittany by Santerre was reconnoitring the formidable La Saudraie Woods in Astillé. Decimated by this cruel war, the battalion was reduced to about three hundred men. This was at the time when, after Argonne, Jemmapes, and Valmy, of the first battalion of Paris, which had numbered six hundred volunteers, only twenty-seven men remained, thirty-three of the second, and fifty-seven of the third, – a time of epic combats. The battalion sent from Paris into La Vendée numbered nine hundred and twelve men. Each regiment had three pieces of cannon. They had been quickly mustered. On the 25th of April, Gohier being Minister of Justice, and Bouchotte Minister of War, the section of Bon Conseil had offered to send volunteer battalions into La Vendée; the report was made by Lubin, a member of the Commune. On the 1st of May, Santerre was ready to send off twelve thousand men, thirty field-pieces, and one battalion of gunners. These battalions, notwithstanding they were so quickly formed, serve as models even at the present day, and regiments of the line are formed on the same plan; they altered the former proportion between the number of soldiers and that of non-commissioned officers.

On the 28th of April the Paris Commune had given to the volunteers of Santerre the following order: "No mercy, no quarter." Of the twelve thousand that had left Paris, at the end of May eight thousand were dead. The battalion which was engaged in La Saudraie held itself on its guard. There was no hurrying: every man looked at once to right and to left, before him, behind him. Kléber has said: "The soldier has an eye in his back." They had been marching a long time. What o'clock could it be? What time of the day was it? It would have been hard to say; for there is always a sort of dusk in these wild thickets, and it was never light in that wood. The forest of La Saudraie was a tragic one. It was in this coppice that from the month of November, 1792, civil war began its crimes; Mousqueton, the fierce cripple, had come forth from those fatal thickets; the number of murders that had been committed there made one's hair stand on end. No spot was more terrible.

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The first drank and made a grimace.

The second drank and spit it out

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