He had obtained for one of his political friends the prefecture of Troyes, and for a farmer at Gondreville the exemption of his son from the draft; in fact, he had done services to many.

Consequently, the sale met with no opposition in the neighborhood where Malin then reigned, and where he still reigns supreme.
The Empire was just dawning.

Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no conception of the vast spaces which public thought traversed between events which now seem to have been so near together.

The strong need of peace and tranquillity which every one felt after the violent tumults of the Revolution brought about a complete forgetfulness of important anterior facts.

History matured rapidly under the advance of new and eager interests.