Excerpt from The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Whites and the Blues
Neither was the hour of the lad's arrival one which was likely to make Strasbourg seem gay to him. By nine o'clock at night the dark and narrow streets were deserted and left to the patrols of the Civil Guard and the Company of the Propaganda, whose duty it was to keep public order. Nothing could be more lugubrious for a traveller just arriv ing from another city which was neither the scene of war nor a frontier town, than the sound of the nocturnal march ing to and fro of these armed bodies, stopping now and then, with gruff orders and clang of weapons, as they met other bodies, exchanged the pass-word, and went on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.| ISBN: | 9780483573918 |
| Publication date: | 21st January 2018 |
| Author: | Alexandre Dumas |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 396 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
Excerpt from The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Whites and the Blues
Neither was the hour of the lad's arrival one which was likely to make Strasbourg seem gay to him. By nine o'clock at night the dark and narrow streets were deserted and left to the patrols of the Civil Guard and the Company of the Propaganda, whose duty it was to keep public order. Nothing could be more lugubrious for a traveller just arriv ing from another city which was neither the scene of war nor a frontier town, than the sound of the nocturnal march ing to and fro of these armed bodies, stopping now and then, with gruff orders and clang of weapons, as they met other bodies, exchanged the pass-word, and went on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2 features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2 is available in Hardback, Paperback
The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2 was written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd
The First Republic, Vol. 1 of 2 has 396 pages