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

La Guerre des Paysans

Date de l'édition originale de cette édition: 1863.

Le Coureur des grèves, scènes de la vie des pêcheurs flamands

Extrait:Après avoir donné à Daniel une cordiale poignée de main, il le quitta, et continua son chemin le long du quai.

Oeuvres complètes de Henri Conscience

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

Ce roman raconte l'histoire de deux familles flamandes de Gand. D'abord pauvres, l'une reussit a s'elever grace a l'instruction. Un brin didactique, le roman est un plaidoyer pour l'instruction."Extrait:Cette grande maison, avec ses cent fenêtres que l'on voit sur le pont du Moulin, à Gand, est la fabrique de coton de M. Raemdonck. Quoique le jour baisse, tout y est encore en pleine activité. La lourde batisse tremble jusque dans ses fondements, sous le mouvement des mécaniques que fait marcher la vapeur. C'est d'abord le diable, cette puissante machine dans laquelle le coton est battu, secoué et foulé jusqu'a ce qu'il soit expurgé de tout corps étranger. Puis les cordes, les instruments de tension et les lanternes ou pots tournants qui, tous ensemble, changent la laine végétale en flocons de neige,la mêlent, la divisent et la préparent, pour être convertie par les machines à filer en un fil mince comme un cheveu.

Histoire de deux enfants d'ouvriers

Extrait:La loi de nos pères était ferme comme ces l1lq s murailles qui, bleu que sillonnées par de profondes crévasses et couronnées d'une sauvage verdure, ont traversé les siècles et sont encore debout malgré les orages et le soufﬂe de la tempête..

Le Lion de Flandre, Vol. 1

Extrait:Le charpentier étendit la main, et par un geste rapide, fit glisser son pouce sur son index replié.

La Guerre des Paysans

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