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  1        I|        town of the arrondissement, Montaignac, a charming sub-prefecture
  2        I|          distant.~ ~“And was it at Montaignac that you bought the horse
  3        I|          of the Hotel de France at Montaignac. I was passing the house
  4        I|            the Duc de Sairmeuse at Montaignac matter to us?” he exclaimed. “
  5       II|          distinguish the spires of Montaignac in the distance.~ ~This
  6       II|           took up his residence in Montaignac.~ ~Young, daring, and personally
  7       II|        Lacheneur was the tyrant of Montaignac.~ ~But this metier of public
  8       II|         The Duc de Sairmeuse is at Montaignac; he will soon be here; and
  9      III|         opinion.~ ~On the way from Montaignac to Sairmeuse, the duke,
 10      III|          farmer in the environs of Montaignac, he owed his Latin and tonsure
 11        V|         morning, by his friends in Montaignac of the arrival of the duke,
 12       XI|     plainly, even while we were in Montaignac, Monsieur Lacheneur’s enemies
 13     XIII|           in the arrondissement of Montaignac.~ ~The approach to the castle
 14       XV|           ordered him to gallop to Montaignac and bring a physician without
 15       XV|            that the physician from Montaignac could not arrive until nearly
 16       XV|           and soon the doctor from Montaignac entered.~ ~He examined Maurice
 17      XVI|         the redoubtable citadel of Montaignac, built upon an almost inaccessible
 18    XVIII|        place of the physician from Montaignac.~ ~“I never would have believed
 19      XIX|         the military department of Montaignac.~ ~The Marquis de Courtornieu
 20      XIX|          of the military forces at Montaignac, and the prospective son-in-law
 21      XIX|           interested in matters at Montaignac, and he told her all that
 22      XIX|          windows of the citadel at Montaignac illuminated by a red glare,
 23       XX|    presiding judge of the court at Montaignac, were both obliged to leave
 24       XX|       intend to take possession of Montaignac, dethrone Louis XVIII.,
 25       XX|           gleamed upon every side. Montaignac seemed surrounded by a circle
 26       XX|          and run and order out the Montaignac chasseurs——”~ ~But suddenly
 27      XXI|          them? You hope to capture Montaignac——-”~ ~“What does that matter
 28      XXI|            You have forgotten that Montaignac is a fortified city, protected
 29      XXI|           they are expecting us at Montaignac. You would be as sure of
 30      XXI|            after that! If you take Montaignac, what will you do then?
 31     XXII|          carriage to convey her to Montaignac. Since her father had taken
 32     XXII|         day either Blanche went to Montaignac, or the marquis paid a visit
 33     XXII|      calmly; “and as she can reach Montaignac by the other road, two men
 34     XXII|       Lacheneur of the disaster at Montaignac, the murmurs of dissatisfaction
 35     XXII|            wished to march against Montaignac without Lacheneur, and that,
 36     XXII|   separating the Croix d’Arcy from Montaignac is traversed.~ ~Soon they
 37    XXIII|           and three hundred of the Montaignac chasseurs were under arms.~ ~
 38    XXIII|         Arcy just as the firing at Montaignac began. He listened and waited.
 39    XXIII|        started on a brisk trot for Montaignac.~ ~He was delighted; certainly
 40     XXIV|           Empire were concealed in Montaignac.~ ~Alas! it must be confessed
 41      XXV|            some disguise and go to Montaignac at once.~ ~On hearing these
 42      XXV|     stopped him.~ ~“You must go to Montaignac,” said he, “but it would
 43      XXV|          considerable influence in Montaignac. Maurice and Marie-Anne
 44      XXV|            closed all the gates of Montaignac save one.~ ~Through this
 45      XXV|            stopped when he visited Montaignac, and whose proprietor was
 46      XXV|          at least sixty arrests in Montaignac.~ ~It was generally supposed
 47      XXV|          officers belonging to the Montaignac militia, on returning from
 48      XXV|           air. You forget that the Montaignac militia is composed, for
 49      XXV|          Mlle. Blanche had been at Montaignac that morning. She had confided
 50     XXVI|       night; the other two were in Montaignac.~ ~What were the ladies
 51     XXVI|          they reached the gates of Montaignac did the old soldier forsake
 52     XXVI|           The signals had said:~ ~“Montaignac must be regarded as in a
 53    XXVII|          XXVII~ ~In the citadel of Montaignac, within the second line
 54    XXVII|           duty to have hastened to Montaignac and informed the authorities.
 55    XXVII|          leading from Sairmeuse to Montaignac, I was assailed by a crowd
 56   XXVIII|        that Mme. d’Escorval was in Montaignac; he was equally certain
 57   XXVIII|          his word not to return to Montaignac before two o’clock.~ ~“‘
 58     XXIX|         power. He is omnipotent in Montaignac; the only man who could
 59     XXIX|            of rope at this hour in Montaignac? Will you go about from
 60      XXX|           time of the panic before Montaignac, the Baron d’Escorval had
 61     XXXI|            affixed to the walls of Montaignac, that decree in which he
 62     XXXI|              All that was known in Montaignac was that M. Lacheneur’s
 63     XXXI|          other that he had come to Montaignac to give Mlle. Lacheneur
 64     XXXI|     separate the arrondissement of Montaignac from Savoy. He even mentioned
 65     XXXI|          eight men chosen from the Montaignac chasseurs, who could be
 66     XXXI|           troops were returning to Montaignac after pursuing the rebels
 67     XXXI|            that the authorities of Montaignac promise to give a reward
 68     XXXI|            his cart and bear it to Montaignac. He would go to the authorities
 69     XXXI|          of Rome were concealed in Montaignac, and that this report was
 70     XXXI|           were none other than the Montaignac chasseurs, placed at Chupin’
 71     XXXI|            spoken the truth.~ ~The Montaignac chasseurs were climbing
 72     XXXI|          and the party started for Montaignac.~ ~The great bell was striking
 73    XXXII|            added:~ ~“The people of Montaignac are pleased. They know that
 74   XXXIII|          sorrowful scenes of which Montaignac had been the theatre.~ ~
 75   XXXIII|           following her arrival in Montaignac, she recounted what she
 76   XXXIII|            dyed his cheeks.~ ~“The Montaignac police are at your disposal,”
 77   XXXIII|         night a courier arrived at Montaignac, bearing the following laconic
 78    XXXIV|        surprise the inhabitants of Montaignac in the least.~ ~But spreading
 79    XXXIV|         best to make the people of Montaignac forget the atrocious cruelty
 80    XXXIV|      leader of the conspirators in Montaignac, who had expected to lose
 81     XXXV|            Most assuredly.”~ ~“The Montaignac police will follow us.”~ ~“
 82     XXXV|          of the bloody massacre at Montaignac.~ ~With tears rolling down
 83    XXXVI|           has been some trouble in Montaignac.”~ ~The imminence of the
 84    XXXVI|          the best upholsterer~ ~in Montaignac. I intended it for you.
 85    XXXVI|    troubles across the frontier at Montaignac.”~ ~From crimson Maurice
 86    XXXVI|            leader of the revolt in Montaignac, was~ ~executed. The miserable
 87   XXXVII|        physicians and druggists in Montaignac, in the hope of discovering
 88  XXXVIII|          and rider on their way to Montaignac, that nearly ran over him,
 89  XXXVIII|           belonging to the duke in Montaignac would afford him a refuge.~ ~“
 90  XXXVIII|         Jean Lacheneur had gone to Montaignac during the night to procure
 91  XXXVIII|          Sairmeuse; he returned to Montaignac, and passed the remainder
 92    XXXIX|            motive.~ ~“The order to Montaignac must be sent at once,” she
 93    XXXIX|  instructions for the commander at Montaignac.~ ~Blanche herself gave
 94    XXXIX|           her heart.~ ~Martial, at Montaignac, had ended by going to sleep.~ ~
 95       XL|            making them.~ ~“Come to Montaignac, then, the sooner the better.
 96      XLI|           and the duke had gone to Montaignac.~ ~The abbe’s anxiety on
 97      XLI|            that the authorities of Montaignac had forgotten, and desired
 98      XLI|         Poignot, on returning from Montaignac, reported that the duke
 99      XLI|         this intelligence, for the Montaignac papers mentioned this fact,
100      XLI|           ran between Piedmont and Montaignac, passing through the village
101     XLII|         reports false, reduced the Montaignac revolution to its proper
102     XLII| Piedmontese innkeeper, Chupin left Montaignac and came to beg an asylum
103     XLII|             He was all-powerful in Montaignac; and I was accused of being
104     XLII|           servant was to gallop to Montaignac at once. All was bustle
105     XLII|       Chupin. What was he doing in Montaignac? Was he watching Martial
106     XLII|         neighborhood, concealed in Montaignac, probably. I must know.
107     XLIV|       departed in the direction of Montaignac.~ ~Breathless, with cheeks
108    XLVII|            days to take us back to Montaignac—that is seven days; it will
109    XLVII|           did not take the road to Montaignac. It was toward the Chateau
110   XLVIII|         day.”~ ~As he rode back to Montaignac, Martial’s thoughts were
111     XLIX|            in that bloody drama at Montaignac had, in common parlance, “
112     XLIX|   strolling players who stopped at Montaignac for a few days.~ ~But the
113        L|      arrested, incarcerated in the Montaignac prison, and brought before
114        L|       began.~ ~Officials came from Montaignac charged with investigating
115        L|       good-will of the agents from Montaignac, by making them familiar
116        L|      police agents had returned to Montaignac, she had great difficulty
117     LIII|     connected with the troubles at Montaignac, Blanche knew only four