. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER IV. QUIBERON. N QUIBERON, we breakfasted at oldRohan Belle-Isles, who keeps theHotel Penthifivre. This gentlemanhad his bare feet stuck in oldslippers, on account of the heat,and was drinking with a mason,a fact which does not prevent him from being thedescendant of one of the first families of Europe; anaristocrat of the old stock! a real aristocrat! yiveDieul He immediately set to work to pound a steakand to cook us some lobsters. Our pride was flat-tered to its innermost f
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER IV. QUIBERON. N QUIBERON, we breakfasted at oldRohan Belle-Isles, who keeps theHotel Penthifivre. This gentlemanhad his bare feet stuck in oldslippers, on account of the heat,and was drinking with a mason,a fact which does not prevent him from being thedescendant of one of the first families of Europe; anaristocrat of the old stock! a real aristocrat! yiveDieul He immediately set to work to pound a steakand to cook us some lobsters. Our pride was flat-tered to its innermost fibre. The past of Quiberon is concentrated in a mas-sacre. Its greatest curiosity is a cemetery, which isfilled to its utmost capacity and overflows into thestreet. The head-stones are crowded together and in-vade and submerge one another, as if the corpseswere uncomfortable in their graves and had lifted uptheir shoulders to escape from them. It suggests apetrified ocean, the tombs being the waves, and thecrosses the masts of shipwrecked vessels. In the middle, an open ossuary contains skeletonsthat have
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