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VOL. I.
Portrait of Dumas Frontispiece
Portrait of Louis XVIII.
Portrait of Dermoncourt
VOL. II.
Portrait of Louis Philippe
Cathedral of Nantes
Chateau of Nantes
THE LAST VENDÉE;
OR,
THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL
VOLUME I.
THE LAST VENDÉE;
OR,
THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL
I.
CHARETTE'S AIDE-DE-CAMP.
If you ever chanced, dear reader, to go from Nantes to Bourgneuf you must, before reaching Saint-Philbert, have skirted the southern corner of the lake of Grand-Lieu, and then, continuing your way, you arrived, at the end of one hour or two hours, according to whether you were on foot or in a carriage, at the first trees of the forest of Machecoul.
There, to left of the road, among a fine clump of trees belonging, apparently, to the forest from which it is separated only by the main road,