Lourdes (Literary Classics)
Contributors: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Translator)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9781573928281
Subjects: Classic fiction; Lourdes (France); Fiction; French Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literature: Classics; Classics; Christian pilgrims and pilgrim; General; Catholics; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Clergy; France; Lourdes; Travel
First sentence: THE pilgrims and patients, closely packed on the hard seats of the third-class carriage, were just finishing the ' Ave maris Stella,' which they had begun to chant on leaving the terminus of the Orleans line, when Marie, slightly raised on her couch of misery and restless with feverish impatience, caught sight of the Paris fortifications through the window of the moving train.