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1799, fin du Directoire. Dans une Bretagne empreinte de traditions, le marquis de Montauran, surnommé « le Gars », coalise des paysans royalistes en vue de rétablir los angeles monarchie. Afin d’éradiquer cette oppo-sition chouanne, le ministre Fouché envoie Marie de Verneuil lui tendre un piège. Mais los angeles belle espionne va tomber amou¬reuse de celui qui aurait dû être son pire ennemi…
Avec Les Chouans, à los angeles fois roman historique à l. a. Walter Scott et roman d’amour, Balzac signe le most suitable grand texte de l. a. Comédie humaine. Il y décrit l. a. France instable de l. a. Révolution et s’applique autant à restituer l’ambiance d’une époque que les paysages de landes désolées, où de frustes paysans s’allient à des aristocrates frondeurs pour défendre des coutumes ancestrales.

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Experience first—language second. How can I tell how I felt? I saw things around me with a curious double vision, as if I stared at them through rippling water—yet I felt no surprise and no curiosity about this. I moved like a sleepwalker, unaware of what I was about to do—but I was wide awake, fully aware of who I was, where I was, what my job at the Section had been. There was no amnesia; my full memories were available to me at any moment. And, although I did not know what I was about to do, I was always aware of what I was doing and sure that each act was the necessary, purposeful act at that moment.

I mean to say she was to me still old Lady Haines, the spinster secretary to the boss, the one who bawled me out for poor grammar in my reports. In the second place, if she was carrying a parasite I did not want to risk burning it, not after what we had been told. I am not the world's best shot, anyhow. She ducked into a room; I came up to it and again I hesitated— sheer habit; it was the ladies' room. But only a moment. I slammed the door open and looked around, gun ready. Something hit me back of my right ear.

Greenberg, could you come up for a moment? " He fussed, but agreed to do so. When we entered the loft I closed the door behind us and led him over to the open crate. "Here," I said, "if you will just lean over there, you will see what I mean. If I could just—" I got him around the neck with a grip that cut off his wind, ripped his jacket and shirt up, and, with my free hand, transferred a master from the cell to his bare back, then held him tight for a moment until his struggles stopped. Then I let him up, tucked his shirt back in and dusted him off.

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