Derues (Annotated) #615968

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top.
• For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter.
• With a picture of Alexandre Dumas
, a detailed biography of him is added.


Around half-past five on a September afternoon in 1751, around a score of tiny boys, talking, pushing, and tumbling over one another like a covey of partridges, issued from one of Chartres' religious schools. The joy of the small troop who had just escaped from a long and exhausting captivity was doubled: a minor accident to one of the teachers had caused the class to be dismissed half an hour earlier than usual, and as a result of the extra work thrown on the teaching staff, the brother whose duty it was to see that all the scholars arrived safely was forced to omit that part of his daily task.