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The Bird

Jules Michelet

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . time in possession of a true garden, a large establishment, a thousand domestic occupations with which we had previously dispensed. A wild Breton girl rendered help only in the coarser tasks. Save one weekly journey to the town, we were very lonely, but in an extremely busy solitude; rising very early in the morning, at the first awakening of the birds, and even before the day. It is true that we retired to rest at a good hour, and almost at the same time as the birds.

This profusion of fruits, vegetables, and plants of every kind, enabled us to keep numerous domestic animals: only the difficulty was, that nourishing them, knowing each of them, and well-known by [Pg 46] them, we could not make up our minds to eat them. We planted, and here we met with quite a distinct kind of inconvenience—our plantations were nearly always devoured beforehand.

This earth, fertile in vegetables, was equally or more prolific of destructive animals; enormous capac. . . Read More

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2.00
- Dusty - Jan 25, 2011

"Man, bird, all nature, utter the same desire", Michelet says, and that's more or less this book encapsulated in one sentence. As I understand it, The Bird is a sort of side project -- a distraction -- to the other, heavier work the author was doing concurrently into the history of France. Buried in

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