Robert Helmont Diary Of A Recluse 1870 1871 PDF Download

Excerpt from Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 During that hot summer, so exceptionally stormy and scorching, this inaction full of agitation was dreadful, and my anxiety, increased by the accounts of the public disasters which filled the papers that covered my bed, added to my restlessness and sleeplessness. At night the rumble of the distant trains disturbed me like the tread of endless battalions. And by day, pale and sad faces, scraps of conversations overheard in the road or at the neighbour's, through my Open window: The Prussians are at Chalons, mother Jean, and the vans at every moment raising clouds of dust in the quiet little village, lent a mundane and sinister echo to my perusal of the news of the war. Soon we were the only Parisians left at Champrosay, left alone with the peasants, obstinately attached to the land, and still refusing to admit the idea of an invasion. Directly I could leave my couch and be moved, our departure was decided. 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.