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Copyright By P. The translations made especially for this collection are covered by the general copyright. In appeared the charming collection of verses called "Chemin des Bois," which was crowned by the Academy, and which earned for the author the title of "Song Sparrow" from the great critic Sainte-Beuve.
Theuriet received, in , the Vitel prize from the Academy for general literary excellence, and was admitted to that body in His style is sane, fresh, limpid, delicate, and rich in color. He is a lover of nature with a profound feeling for the peasant. Translated by B. One November evening, the eve of Sainte-Catherine's Day, the gate of the Auberive prison turned upon its hinges to allow to pass out a woman of some thirty years, clad in a faded woolen gown and coiffed in a linen cap that framed in a singular fashion a face pale and puffed by that sickly-hued fat which develops on prison regimen.
She was a prisoner whom they had just liberated, and whom her companions of detention called La Bretonne. Condemned for infanticide, it was exactly, day for day, six years ago that the prison van had brought her to the Centrale.
Now, in her former garb, and with her small stock of money received from the clerk in her pocket, she found herself free and with her roadpass stamped for Langres. The courier for Langres, however, had long since gone.
