Extrait:Au 1815, par une belle après-midi, j'etfie alle me promener au bois de la\ Cambre en compagnie de quelques amis.

Le Remplaçant: La Famille du marin

Voilà Mieken, la jolie enfant blonde, qui s’en retourne à la maison avec son ardoise sous le bras. Son voisin Janneken, tête frisée aux cheveux noirs, marche à côté d’elle1. Chemin faisant, ils cueillent dans le seigle des bluets bleus et des coquelicots rouges. Ils s’assoient sur le seuil de pierre fruste à l’entrée du cimetière. Janneken tresse une couronne avec les fleurs. La petite fille trouve que cela dure trop longtemps et témoigne son impatience de posséder la couronne...Extrait :Il y eut aussi beaucoup de personnes qui parurent admirer mon œuvre, et qui m'encouragèrent en me disant que j'étais prédestiné à faire une révolution dans l'école, et à élever l'art chrétien au-dessus de l'art païen ; mais plus je trouvai de défenseurs, plus je vis s'élever contre moi d'ennemis acharnés. Si la lutte s'était bornée à la discussion des défauts et des mérites de ma statue, je n'y eusse point succombé ; mais mes adversaires, aveuglés par la passion, se mirent à chercher dans mon passé des prétextes pour me livrer à la risée du public. Ils firent, sans le vouloir, saigner mon cœur par de profondes blessures, et profanèrent des souvenirs qui m'étaient plus chers que la vie. Depuis ce moment, j'ai eu peur de la publicité, et je n'ai plus jamais rien exposé.

La Tombe de fer

Oeuvres complètes, Volume 12...

Premier Western en Néerlandais. Véritables aventures de trois Flamands qui partent en 1849 vers l'Eldorado pour faire fortune.Extrait:Victor regarda son camarade avec des yeux etin celants. Ce qu'il entendait le frappait de stupeur.

Le Pays de l'or

The story of The Poor Gentleman is one of the series in which M. Conscience has delineated various grades of female character in positions of trial. In The Village Innkeeper he has shown the weaker traits of woman distracted between an inborn sense of propriety and a foolish ambition for high, life. In The Conscript his heroine displays the nobler virtues of uncorrupted humble life; and, with few characters, taken from the lowest walks, he shows the triumph of honest, straightforward earnestness and pertinacious courage, even when they are brought in conflict with authority. The Poor Gentleman closes the series; and, selecting a heroine from the educated classes of his country-people M. Conscience has demonstrated how superior a genuine woman becomes to all the mishaps of fortune, and how successfully she subdues that imaginary fate before which so many are seen to fall.Excerpt 1:Near the end of July, 1842, an open caleche might have been seen rolling along one of the three highways that lead from the frontiers of Holland toward Antwerp. Although the vehicle had evidently been cleaned with the utmost care, everything about it betokened decay. Its joints were open, discolored, and weather-beaten, and it swung from side to side on its springs like a rickety skeleton. Its patched leathers shone in the sunshine with the oil that had been used to freshen them, but the borrowed lustre could not hide the cracks and repairs with which they were defaced. The door-handles and other parts of the vehicle that were made of copper had been carefully polished, and the vestiges of silver-plating, still visible in the creases of the ornaments, denoted a former richness which had been almost entirely worn out by time and use. The caleche was drawn by a stout, heavy horse, whose short and lumbering gait intimated very clearly that he was oftener employed in the plough and cart than in carrying his owner toward the capital."Excerpt 2:As Monsieur De Vlierbeck entered Antwerp, where he knew he would be an object of notice, he assumed a jaunty, self-satisfied air. Anyone seeing him which might have deceived into believing him the happiest man on earth . . . even while he suffered from the profoundest agony.He was, he feared, about to suffer abject humiliation. This would cut him to the very heart! But there was a being in the world whom he loved better than his life or honor -- his only child, his daughter. For her, how frequently had he sacrificed his pride -- how frequently had he suffered the pangs of martyrdom!

Le Gentilhomme pauvre

Extrait:En novembre 1792, la bataille de Jemmapes livra notre patrie, sans défense et abandonnée de tous, à la plus terrible oppression.

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