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Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany
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9791041983995
ISBN13:
9791041983995
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$16.47
Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany
$16.47
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 d?bris, 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.
| Author: Gustave Flaubert |
| Publisher: Culturea |
| Publication Date: Jan 31, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 94 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: NA |
| ISBN-13: 9791041983995 |
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