tailieunhanh - Countess de Saint-Geran

About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The heat was excessive, the horses were bathed in sweat, the horsemen covered with dust, and the party seemed on its return from an important expedition. A man left the escort, and asked an old woman who was spinning at her door if there was not an inn in the place. The woman and. | feedboo is Countess de Saint-Geran Dumas Alexandre Published 1840 Categorie s Non-Fiction History Source http 1 About Dumas Alexandre Dumas père born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie July 24 1802 - December 5 1870 was a French writer best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask were serialized and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo 1845 The Three Musketeers 1844 The Man in the Iron Mask 1850 Twenty Years After 1845 The Borgias 1840 Ten Years Later 1848 The Vicomte of Bragelonne 1847 Louise de la Valliere 1849 The Black Tulip 1850 Ali Pacha 1840 Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 About the end of the year 1639 a troop of horsemen arrived towards midday in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men. The heat was excessive the horses were bathed in sweat the horsemen covered with dust and the party seemed on its return from an important expedition. A man left the escort and asked an old woman who was spinning at her door if there was not an inn in the place. The woman and her children showed him a bush hanging over a door at the end of the only street in the village and the escort recommenced its march at a walk. There was noticed among the mounted men a young man of distinguished appearance and richly dressed who appeared to be a prisoner. This discovery redoubled the curiosity of the villagers who followed the cavalcade as far as the door of the wineshop. The host