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Excerpt from Gerard de Nerval, la Vie Et l'Oeuvre, 1808-1855: Avec un Portrait d'Apres Nadar
Au sein de cet immense paysage, la gloire de l'ancienne France chante encore sa legende doree. Il n'est pas un nom de bourg, au hasard, qui n'ait sa beaute et ne reveille tout un monde de souvenirs. C'est Estrees qui berce dans sa memoire les noms entrelaces d'henri IV et de Gabrielle; c'est la F erte-milon ou Racine enfant ?anait dans les prairies; Chantilly ou Louis XIV et Conde coururent le cerf a travers la foret inondee de clair de lune; Ermenonville' ou Rousseau reva et mourut.
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