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Title: Ninety-three
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Benedict, Frank Lee, 1834-1910
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Publisher: London, New-York : G. Routledge and Sons
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There they were foundin the desert, here in the f( )rest ; the ca,ves of Egypt held dead men, thecaves of Brittany were filled Avith the living. One of the wildest gladesof the wood of Misdon, j hif orated by galleries and cells amid whichcame and went a mysterious society, was called the great city. An-other glade, not less deserted above ground and not less inhaljited))eueath, was styled the place royal. This subterranean life hadexisted in Brittany from time immemorial. From the earliest daysman had there hidden, flying from man. Hence those hiding-places,like the dens of re))tiles, hollowed out below the trees. They dated fromthe era of the Druids, and ceitain of those crypts were as ancient as thecrondechs. The hirvie of legend and the monsters of history all passedacross that sliadowy land. Tentâtes, Cœsar, Hoël, Neomenes, Geoffreyof England, Alain of th< iron glove, Pierre Manclerc, the French houseof Blois, the English house of Montfort, kiiins and dukes, the nine 336
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NIN^HTY-THREE. 239 barons of Brittauy, the judges of the Great Days, the Coiiuts of Nantescontesting with the Counts of Rennes, highwaymen, banditti. FreeLances, René II., Viscount dc Rolian, the governors for the king, thegood Duke of Chaulnes, hanging the peasants under the windows ofMadame de Se vigne ; in the tifteenth century, the butclieries by thenobles ; in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the wars of religion ;in the eighteenth century, the thirty thousand dogs trained to huntmen. Beneath these i)itiless trampliugs the inhabitants made up theirminds to disappear. Each in turn—the Troglodytes to eseajje theCelts, the Celts to escape the Romans, the Bretons to escape the Nor-mans, the Huguenots to escape the Roman Catholics, the smugglers toescape the excise officers—took refuge first in the forests and thenunderground—the resource of hunted animals. It is this to whicht^Tanny reduces nations. During two thousand yeais despotism underall its forms—conquest,

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