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The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 By: Eugène Sue (1804-1857) |
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THE FULL SERIES OF
The Mysteries of the People
OR
History of a Proletarian Family
Across the Ages By EUGENE SUE Consisting of the Following Works: THE GOLD SICKLE; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen .
THE BRASS BELL; or, The Chariot of Death .
THE IRON COLLAR; or, Faustina and Syomara .
THE SILVER CROSS; or, The Carpenter of Nazareth .
THE CASQUE'S LARK; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps .
THE PONIARD'S HILT; or, Karadeuoq and Ronan .
THE BRANDING NEEDLE; or, The Monastery of Charolles .
THE ABBATIAL CROSIER; or, Bonaik and Septimine .
THE CARLOVINGIAN COINS; or, The Daughters of Charlemagne .
THE IRON ARROW HEAD; or, The Buckler Maiden .
THE INFANT'S SKULL; or, The End of the World .
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL; or, Fergan the Quarryman .
THE IRON PINCERS; or, Mylio and Karvel .
THE IRON TREVET; or Jocelyn the Champion .
THE EXECUTIONER'S KNIFE; or, Joan of Arc .
THE POCKET BIBLE; or, Christian the Printer .
THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER; or, The Peasant Code .
THE SWORD OF HONOR; or, The Foundation of the French Republic .
THE GALLEY SLAVE'S RING; or, The Family Lebrenn . Published Uniform With This Volume By
THE NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.
28 CITY HALL PLACE NEW YORK CITY
THE
GALLEY SLAVE'S RING
OR
THE FAMILY OF LEBRENN A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 By EUGENE SUE TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH
By DANIEL DE LEON NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY. 1911 Copyright, 1911, by the
NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.
INDEX
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE I CHAPTER I GILDAS AND JEANIKE 1 II GEORGE DUCHENE 19 III MARIK LEBRENN 40 IV PRADELINE 60 V CARDINAL AND COUNT 70 VI JOEL AND NEROWEG 82 VII "THE SWORD OF BRENNUS" 103 VIII ON THE EVE OF BATTLE 113 IX POPULAR JUSTICE 127 X ON THE BARRICADE 139 XI LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! 161 XII THE GALLEY SLAVE AND THE GENERAL 168 XIII HOME AGAIN 181 XIV SACROVIR'S BIRTHDAY 190 XV THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER 198 EPILOGUE 219
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
With this story, The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn ,
closes the series of the nineteen historic novels comprised in Eugene
Sue's monumental work The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a
Proletarian Family Across the Ages . They who have read the preceding eighteen stories will agree that from
the moment they began the first volume of the series, The Gold Sickle;
or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen , down to the eighteenth, The
Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic , they enjoyed
a matchless promenade as they followed Sue through the Ages of History,
from the time of the invasion of Gaul by Julius Caesar, shortly before
Christ, down to the great epoch marked by the French Revolution. Nor
will their expectations concerning this closing story be disappointed. The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn is staged on the
Age that witnessed the downfall of Louis Philippe the last of the
Bourbon line and the aspirations that raised the Second Republic. While
several of the figures are historic, in this story historic characters
step forth less pronouncedly than historic principles. In this story are
found the Principles, the old and the newest, that have since occupied
the stage of man's history, and the clash of which, down to our own
days, occupies man's attention. Inestimable as the previous stories are to the understanding of the Age
of the present story, the present story, enlivened with the vein of
romance, is inestimable to the understanding of our own Age... Continue reading book >>
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