The Sea (La Mer)

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The Sea (La Mer) is presented as translated from the latest Paris edition. The text says that wherever and whenever one looks upon the Ocean, one finds her the same grand and terrible teacher of the hardest of all the lessons man has to learn. The text says that when the Crustaceæ are large they are the tyrants and the terror of both land and sea.

The text says it is related that, on some desert isle, several of Drake's sailors were attacked and devoured by greedy creatures. The text says that, according to the old Celtic custom, every vessel that runs in there must be hauled up to the Quay by the cable and the capstan, the capstan bars being handled by the women, for the lads are all at sea.

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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet brought a historian's imagination to Joan Of Arc, a compact narrative drawn from his larger History of France. Writing in nineteenth-century France, he presented Joan as a figure of courage whose mission, military success, abandonment, imprisonment, and martyrdom revealed tensions among monarchy, church authority, and the people.

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Author: Jules Michelet
Pages: 179
Language: English
Genre: Popular Science
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