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Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871

by Alphonse Daudet

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ALPHONSE DAUDET

Robert Helmont DIARY OF A RECLUSE

1870–1871

TRANSLATED BY

LAURA ENSOR

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICARD AND MONTÉGUT

LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited Broadway, Ludgate Hill MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK 1892

LIST OF PLATES

PAGE

“Read that, Mr. Robert, said the good man”

18

“Seeing me so thoroughly determined, the Keeper pressed my hand”

35

“Colaquet managed to take us tolerably straight”

56

“Old Guillard brought out a large jug of sparkling wine”

68

“They began drinking out of their caps”

74

“He lay sprawling at full length on the stone bench”

79

“At that instant a man rushed across the moonlit orchard”

111

The Watch

128

“It was a balloon”

140

“I found a pigeon”

148

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