This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler
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




