Derues

by Alexandre Dumas

Overview

One afternoon in September 1751, around five thirty, around twenty young children, chatting, pushing and falling on each other like a team of scholars, issued by one of the religious schools of Chartres. The joy of the small troop that had just escaped from a long and tired captivity was doubly large: a slight accident for one of the masters had caused the class to leave half an hour earlier than usual, and as a consequence of the additional duty thrown into the The brother's teaching staff whose duty it was to examine all the scholars in the safe home was forced to avoid that part of their daily occupation. Therefore, not only thirty or forty minutes of work were stolen, but there was even a rapid and uncontrolled freedom, free from the guard of that black supervisor who carried the mandate in their formations. thirty minutes! to that stage is a century, of laughter and games of the future! Each one had solemnly affirmed, under pain of austere punishment, to return directly to his paternal nest without waiting, nevertheless the air was so fresh and pure, the country smiled everywhere! The academy, or preferably the box, which had just been confessed, lay on the far edge of one of the suburbs, and it only took a few steps to slide down a group of trees near a sparkling stream beyond which it rose. the undulating terrain, breaking the Monotony of a vast and fertile plain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635221738
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Series:	Derues
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	86
File size:	427 KB

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas was born on 24 July 1802, was also called Alexandre Dumas père, and was a French writer. His historic books of high adventure were initially published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Dumas's father's aristocratic rank helped the youthful Alexandre acquire work with Louis- Philippe, Duke of Orléans, as a writer, a career which led to early success. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French province of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an African slave. At 14, his father took Thomas-Alexandre to France, where he studied at a military school and joined the army for what turned out to be a distinguished career. He was known to have had somewhere around four ill-conceived children, but scholars believe it was seven. On 5 December 1870, Alexandre Dumas died at the age of 68. He was buried at his birthplace of Villers-Cotterêts in the branch of Aisne. His death was overlooked by the Franco-Prussian war. The Paris Métro named a station in his honor. In 2002, Alexandre Dumas' remains were re-buried at the Panthéon of Paris. His last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, was published in 2005. It highlighted a fictional character killing Lord Nelson (Nelson was shot and killed by an unknown sharpshooter).