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EAN13
9791041983995
Éditeur
CULTUREA
Date de publication
31 janvier 2024
Nombre de pages
94
Dimensions
22 x 17 x 0,7 cm
Poids
179 g
Langue
eng

Over Strand And Field, A Record Of Travel Through Brittany

Gustave Flaubert

CULTUREA

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We walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling of distress at the sight of this poverty which has no grandeur. It is not absolute ruin, with the luxury of blackened and mouldy débris, the delicate embroidery of flowers, and the drapery of waving vines undulating in the breeze, like pieces of damask. It is a conscious poverty, for it brushes its threadbare coat and endeavours to appear respectable. The floor has been repaired in one room, while in the next it has been allowed to rot. It shows the futile effort to preserve that which is dying and to bring back that which has fled. Strange to say, it is all very melancholy, but not at all imposing.
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