Torsade Literary Space Catastrophe (part four)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (four) At Basse-Terre, we were reassured. At Pointe we found a thousand Martiniquais refugees, of whom around five hundred had come not wanting to stay at Fort-de-France, for being told it was rendered uninhabitable by the previous […]
Catastrophe (part three)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (part three) To report… Now, the fact, at Saint-Pierre, is that these inhabitants wanted to go. And if these seems to you too general, absolutely, take that portion of the inhabitants whose example had the chance of being […]
Catastrophe (part two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (two) The fifth of May, when the volcano had ravaged the valley of the Rivière-Blanche, and the approaches to the Prêcheur, he [Mouttet] alerted Paris. The sixth of May, when the volcano, in devastating the valley of the […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique (one)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (notes of a reporter) 1902 To the lost souls of forty thousand of Saint-Pierre I dedicate this work of a reporter. Preface Forty thousand victims… This statistic is not exact […]
Baron Haussmann’s Story of the Murderous Innkeepers
From Mémoires de baron Haussmann, 1890 excerpted from a section called Excursions These events take place in the 1830s, Haussmann on his way to his new job at Nérac, the post he held in our last story of his assisting George Sand. […]