Saintine: 4 books

Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist... In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poèmes, odes, épîtres. In 1836 appeared Picciola, a novel about the comte de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont,...

Extrait : "Avant d'entreprendre le récit de ces glorieuses campagnes d'Italie dont les résultats furent si importants pour les destinées des peuples et des rois, il nous paraît indispensable de remonter jusqu'aux événements qui secouèrent avec tant de violence le monde civilisé et qui ouvrirent...

In the earliest ages the South of Europe alone was inhabited, while the Northern part was covered with vast forests, as old as the world, and as yetunbroken by the footsteps of men. Dark, dismal solitudes, consisting of ancient woods or wretched morasses, where trees struggled painfully for existence...