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Title: The Revolt of the Angels

Author: Anatole France

Editor: Frederic Chapman

Translator: Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32596]

Language: English

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THE WORKS OF ANATOLE FRANCE
IN AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
EDITED BY FREDERIC CHAPMAN

THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS

[Illustration]

THE REVOLT
OF THE ANGELS

BY ANATOLE FRANCE

A TRANSLATION BY
MRS. WILFRID JACKSON

[Illustration]

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

MCMXXIV

Copyright, 1914,
by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN U. S. A

THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS

THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS

CHAPTER I

CONTAINING IN A FEW LINES THE HISTORY OF A FRENCH FAMILY
FROM 1789 TO THE PRESENT DAY

Beneath the shadow of St. Sulpice the ancient mansion of the d'Esparvieu
family rears its austere three stories between a moss-grown fore-court
and a garden hemmed in, as the years have elapsed, by ever loftier and
more intrusive buildings, wherein, nevertheless, two tall chestnut trees
still lift their withered heads.

Here from 1825 to 1857 dwelt the great man of the family, Alexandre
Bussart d'Esparvieu, Vice-President of the Council of State under the
Government of July, Member of the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, and author of an _Essay on the Civil and Religious
Institutions of Nations_, in three octavo volumes, a work unfortunately
left incomplete.

This eminent