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The Forty-Five Guardsmen

by DUMAS, Alexandre

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London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press. Good+/None. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Paul Hardy. 712 pages. No date. Burgundy soft leather. Gilt design and lettering on spine, top page edge gilt, burgundy endpapers, duotone frontis and illustrations. Head and tail of spine chipped and worn, corners worn, 3" tear on front edge of spine from bottom up, owners signature on half-title page.

Synopsis

Etiamsi omnes !Le 26 octobre de l'an 1585, les barrieres de la porte Saint- Antoine se trouvaient encore, contre toutes les habitudes, fermees a dix heures et demie du matin.A dix heures trois quarts, une garde de vingt Suisses, qu'on reconnaissait a leur uniforme pour etre des Suisses des petits cantons, c'est-a-dire des meilleurs amis du roi Henri III, alors regnant, deboucha de la rue de la Mortellerie et s'avanca vers la porte Saint-Antoine qui s'ouvrit devant eux et se referma derriere eux ; une fois hors de cette porte, ils allerent se ranger le long des haies qui, a l'exterieur de la barriere, bordaient les enclos epars de chaque cote de la route, et, par sa seule apparition, refoula bon nombre de paysans et de petits bourgeois venant de Montreuil, de Vincennes ou de Saint-Maur pour entrer en ville avant midi, entree qu'ils n'avaient pu operer, la porte se trouvant fermee, comme nous l'avons dit. S'il est vrai que la foule amene naturellement le desordre avec elle, on eut pu croire que, par l'envoi de cette garde, M. le prevot voulait prevenir le desordre qui pouvait avoir lieu a la porte Saint-Antoine. En effet, la foule etait grande ; il arrivait par les trois routes convergentes , et cela a chaqueinstant, des moines des couvents de la banlieue, des femmes assises de cote sur les bats de leurs anes, des paysans dans leurs charrettes, lesquelles venaient s'agglomerer a cette masse deja considerable, que la fermeture inaccoutumee des portes arretait a la barriere, et tous par leurs questions plus ou moins pressantes, formaient une espece de rumeur faisant basse continue, tandis que parfois quelques voix, sortant du diapason general, montaient jusqu'a l'octave de la menace ou de la plainte. On pouvait encore remarquer, outre cette masse d'arrivants qui voulaient entrer dans la ville, quelques groupes particuliers qui semblaient en etre sortis. Ceux-la, au lieu de plonger leurs regards dans Paris par les interstices des barrieres, ceux-la devoraient l'horizon, borne par le couvent des jacobins, le prieure de Vincennes et la Croix-Faubin, comme si, par quelqu'une de ces trois routes formant eventail, il devait leur arriver quelque Messie.

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Bookseller
Zoar Books & Gallery US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
000681
Title
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Author
DUMAS, Alexandre
Illustrator
Paul Hardy
Book Condition
Used - Good+
Jacket Condition
None
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Collins Clear-Type Press
Place of Publication
London & Glasgow
Keywords
Dumas, Guardsmen, Forty
Bookseller catalogs
Literature;
Size
16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

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About Zoar Books & Gallery

(From the History of Rowe)The story has it that a man from Boston, in trying to hide out from his wife, came to a beautiful place by a river in Western Massachusetts. He thought this was the end of the earth and his wife would not find him here. He named this place Zoar because it was mentioned in the Bible and it was the last letter in the alphabet. It was the last place in the world where she would look. We are a general used book store located on the banks of the beautiful Deerfield River in Charlemont, MA. You can reach the store by coming north or south on Route 91. Take exit 26 to Rt.2W. Follow Rt.2W for about 18 miles. You will pass through the center of Charlemont. Keep going west through 2 \"S\" curves. At the end of the second \"S\" curve you will come to bridge with an indian head on it. Take the right turn just before the bridge (Zoar Road) and go 2 miles. After you pass a big grey wall on the right you will see a house on the left right after the wall. It\'s a White house with a red barn. Store hours: Wed.-Thurs.(10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Fri.-Sun. (10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) Closed for the Winter (November 1st to April 15th)

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