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Title: Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

Author: Henri de Crignelle

Translator: Captain Jesse

Release Date: April 21, 2009 [EBook #28573]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

LE MORVAN,

[A DISTRICT OF FRANCE,]

ITS

WILD SPORTS, VINEYARDS AND FORESTS;

WITH

Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches.

BY

HENRI DE CRIGNELLE,

ANCIEN OFFICIER DE DRAGONS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN FRENCH,

BY

CAPTAIN JESSE,

AUTHOR OF "NOTES OF A HALFPAY;" "LIFE OF BRUMMELL;"
"MURRAY'S HAND-BOOK FOR RUSSIA," ETC., ETC.

SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT-STREET.

1851.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM TYLER,
BOLT-COURT.

PREFACE.

Born in one of the most beautiful provinces of France, in a country of
noble forests and extensive vineyards; brought up in the open air amidst
the blue hills, and ever wandering over the fields and mountains with a
gun on my arm--all the hours of my youth, if I may so say, were spent in
search of partridges and hares in the dewy stubbles, and in the pursuit
of the wild cat and the boar in the shady depths of the woods.

When relating the adventures of these different shooting rambles to a
friend, talking over with him our mode of sporting so different from
that of England, and when in imagination I carried him along with me
into the dells and dark ravine