Torsade Literary Space Baron Haussmann’s story about George Sand (part one)
From Mémoires de baron Haussmann, 1890 George Sand at Nérac Before I speak of what came next, I must tell a rather curious episode that arose during the last days of my life as a youth. I had been presented by M. le Marquis de Lusignan, […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy-five
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy-five) Readers, this post ends the book (!), and so next week a new Translation Thursday project begins. This time, stories from the Golden Age of mystery, by the author Frédéric Boutet. XLVII Fear […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy-four
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy-four) The rest of the night passed in great anxiety. We saw flames coursing over the hills, illumination enough to see the flight of numerous persons, while others were passing on the main road, announcing they would go to […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy-three
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy-three) Among the establishments worth calling attention to, we cite again the Government House, the Town Hall, the Bank, the Bishop’s Palace, certain rum factories, the Perinelle sugar refinery, the Bethlehem Asylum, the Customs Warehouse, the Navy Barracks, and the Colonial Hospital […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy-two
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy-two) XLIII That Which Was Saint-Pierre In the course of this volume, I have given a few brief indications of what Saint-Pierre had been, before the catastrophe. There is also a very […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy-one
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy-one) Despite all their efforts, the tourists could not approach the crater. For that, they would have needed to cross the lake at one of its widest points, 300 meters. They thought they had found a ford, […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: seventy
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (seventy) XLII The Crater Before the Catastrophe In the course of various interviews I have published, various information has been noted, on the state of the crater of Mount Pelée, between the […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-nine
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-nine) XLI The Catastrophe and the Seers It was to be expected. The catastrophe must have been predicted by the seers, and above all, by one seer. The creoles have […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-eight
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-eight) The bishop had spoken of Sodom. One of his priests, the curé of Point-de-Pitre, pronouncing a sermon on the 10th of May, dared only make allusion to the cursed cities… But what allusion. Here is the sermon, taken […]