The Last Vendée; or, the She-Wolves of Machecoul. Alexandre Dumas

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      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,