THE IMMORTAL;
OR, ONE OF THE "FORTY." (L'IMMORTEL.)

By Alphonse Daudet,

Translated From The French By A. W. Verrall
And Margaret D. G. Verrall

Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers - 1889

CONTENTS

IMMORTAL; OR, THE "FORTY." (L'IMMORTEL)

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XV.

CHAPTER XVI.

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Illustrations

At the Corner of The Quai D'orsay

There's My Warrior

A Select Reception, at the Padovani Mansion

Seem As Easy As the Hovering of a Dragon-fly

Pressed Upon Her Half-open Lips a Long, Long Kiss

There, Under the Black-draped Porch

Passed a Tall Figure Bent Double

Well, by Your Schemes I Have Lost a Million

With the Help of Fage The Bookbinder

Good Wine is the Only Real Good in Life.

He Began to Talk of his Love

Danjou Read Like a Genuine 'player'

Down the Cool Gree Paths and Long Avenues

People Were Still Coming in

The Dredgers Found the Body

IMMORTAL; OR, THE "FORTY."
(L'IMMORTEL)

CHAPTER I.

In the 1880 edition of Men of the Day, under the heading Astier-Réhu, may be read the following notice:—

Astier, commonly called Astier-Réhu (Pierre Alexandre Léonard), Member of the Académie Française, was born in 1816 at Sauvagnat (Puy-de-Dôme). His parents belonged to the class of small farmers. He displayed from his earliest years a remarkable aptitude for the study of history. His education, begun at Riom and continued at Louis-le-Grand, where he was afterwards to re-appear as professor, was more sound than is now fashionable, and secured his admission to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, from which he went to the Chair of History at the Lycée of Mende. It was here that he wrote the Essay on Marcus Aurelius, crowned by the Académie Française. Called to Paris the following year by M. de Salvandy, the young and brilliant professor showed his sense of the discerning favour extended to him