title: The Poetics of Prose (English and French Edition)
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  # Immortals Crowned by the French Academy: Cinq Mars, v3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alfred de Vigny
  
  
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  BOOK 3.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. THE SIEGE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. THE RECOMPENSE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI. THE BLUNDERS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII. THE NIGHT-WATCH
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII. THE SPANIARD
  
  
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  ## BOOK 3.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER IX. THE SIEGE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  There are moments in our life when we long ardently for strong
  
  
  excitement to drown our petty griefs—times when the 