Part 1
_ THE DUCHESSE OF LANGEAIS
Translated by Ellen Marriage
PREPARER‘S NOTE:
The Duchesse of Langeais is the second part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part three is The Girl with the Golden Eyes. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The Thirteen.
To Franz Liszt
THE DUCHESSE OF LANGEAIS
In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigor of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was either destroyed or disorganized by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars； but as this island was protected through those times by the English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabitants were secure from the general troubl

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