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0 | {
"en": "The Wanderer",
"fr": "Le grand Meaulnes"
} |
1 | {
"en": "Alain-Fournier",
"fr": "Alain-Fournier"
} |
2 | {
"en": "First Part",
"fr": "PREMIÈRE PARTIE"
} |
3 | {
"en": "I",
"fr": "CHAPITRE PREMIER"
} |
4 | {
"en": "THE BOARDER",
"fr": "LE PENSIONNAIRE"
} |
5 | {
"en": "He arrived at our home on a Sunday of November, 189-.",
"fr": "Il arriva chez nous un dimanche de novembre 189-…"
} |
6 | {
"en": "I still say 'our home,' although the house no longer belongs to us.",
"fr": "Je continue à dire « chez nous », bien que la maison ne nous appartienne plus."
} |
7 | {
"en": "We left that part of the country nearly fifteen years ago and shall certainly never go back to it.",
"fr": "Nous avons quitté le pays depuis bientôt quinze ans et nous n’y reviendrons certainement jamais."
} |
8 | {
"en": "We were living in the building of the Higher Elementary Classes at Sainte-Agathe's School.",
"fr": "Nous habitions les bâtiments du Cours Supérieur de Sainte-Agathe."
} |
9 | {
"en": "My father, whom I used to call M. Seurel as did other pupils, was head of the Middle School and also of the Higher Elementary classes where pupils worked for the preliminary teacher's examination.",
"fr": "Mon père, que j’appelais M. Seurel, comme les autres élèves, y dirigeait à la fois le Cours Supérieur... |
10 | {
"en": "My mother taught the infants.",
"fr": "Ma mère faisait la petite classe."
} |
11 | {
"en": "At the extreme end of the small town, a long red house with five glass doors and a Virginia creeper upon its walls ; an immense courtyard with shelters, a washhouse and a huge gateway, on the side looking towards the village; on the north side, a small gate opening on the road leading to the station three ki... |
12 | {
"en": "At the time of some new 'appointments,' a whim of fate, due to some inspector or to the Prefect, had led us there.",
"fr": "Le hasard des « changements », une décision d’inspecteur ou de préfet nous avaient conduits là."
} |
13 | {
"en": "Towards the end of the summer holidays, a long time ago, a peasant cart, preceding our household goods, deposited my mother and myself before the little rusty gate.",
"fr": "Vers la fin des vacances, il y a bien longtemps, une voiture de paysan, qui précédait notre ménage, nous avait déposés, ma mère et mo... |
14 | {
"en": "Urchins who were stealing peaches in the garden silently escaped through holes in the hedge . . . My mother, whom we used to call Millie and who was the most methodical housekeeper I ever knew, had at once gone into the rooms full of dusty straw, and had declared with much consternation - as was her custom a... |
15 | {
"en": "She had come out to impart her trouble to me. While speaking she had, with her handkerchief, gently wiped my face blackened by the journey.",
"fr": "Tout en me parlant, elle avait essuyé doucement avec son mouchoir ma figure d’enfant noircie par le voyage."
} |
16 | {
"en": "Then she had gone back to consider what doors and windows would have to be blocked to make the place habitable ... As for me, wearing a big straw hat with streamers, I was left alone on the gravel of that strange playground, waiting for her, prying shyly around the well and under the cart-shed.",
"fr": "Pu... |
17 | {
"en": "Thus to-day I picture our arrival.",
"fr": "C’est ainsi, du moins, que j’imagine aujourd’hui notre arrivée."
} |
18 | {
"en": "For as soon as I wish to bring back the distant memory of that first evening when I waited in out playground at Sainte-Agathe, at once it is another kind of waiting which I recall, at once I see myself again, both hands pressed to the bars of the front gate, anxiously watching for some one who will soon come... |
19 | {
"en": "If I try to imagine that first night which I must have spent in my attic, amidst the lumber-rooms on the upper storey, I recall other nights; I am no longer alone in that room; a tall, restless, and friendly shadow moves along its walls and walks to and fro.",
"fr": "Et si j’essaie d’imaginer la première n... |
20 | {
"en": "And that quiet countryside - the school, old Father Martin's field, with its three walnut trees, the garden daily invaded on the stroke of four by women paying calls - all this is, in my memory, forever stirred and transformed by the presence of him who upset all our youth and whose sudden flight even did no... |
21 | {
"en": "Yet we had already been ten years in that district when Meaulnes arrived.",
"fr": "Nous étions pourtant depuis dix ans dans ce pays lorsque Meaulnes arriva."
} |
22 | {
"en": "I was fifteen.",
"fr": "J’avais quinze ans."
} |
23 | {
"en": "It was a cold Sunday of November, the first day of autumn to make one think of winter.",
"fr": "C’était un froid dimanche de novembre, le premier jour d’automne qui fît songer à l’hiver."
} |
24 | {
"en": "All day Millie had waited for the station omnibus to bring her a hat for the bad weather.",
"fr": "Toute la journée, Millie avait attendu une voiture de La Gare qui devait lui apporter un chapeau pour la mauvaise saison."
} |
25 | {
"en": "That morning she missed Mass, and right up to the sermon, from my place in the choir with the other children, I looked anxiously towards the door to see her come to church wearing her new hat.",
"fr": "Le matin, elle avait manqué la messe ; et jusqu’au sermon, assis dans le chœur avec les autres enfants, j... |
26 | {
"en": "In the afternoon, I had to go to vespers alone.",
"fr": "Après midi, je dus partir seul à vêpres."
} |
27 | {
"en": "'Anyhow,' she said to comfort me, brushing my little suit with her hand, 'even if it had come, this precious hat, I should have had to spend my Sunday making it up again.'",
"fr": "– D’ailleurs, me dit-elle, pour me consoler, en brossant de sa main mon costume d’enfant, même s’il était arrivé, ce chapeau, ... |
28 | {
"en": "This is how our winter Sundays were often spent.",
"fr": "Souvent nos dimanches d’hiver se passaient ainsi."
} |
29 | {
"en": "In the early morning Father went off to some misty pond to jack-fish from a boat, and Mother retired till nightfall into her dark bedroom, to remake her simple dresses.",
"fr": "Dès le matin, mon père s’en allait au loin, sur le bord de quelque étang couvert de brume, pêcher le brochet dans une barque ; et... |
30 | {
"en": "She shut herself up in that way for fear some lady visitor, as poor as herself and as proud, might surprise her at the job.",
"fr": "Elle s’enfermait ainsi de crainte qu’une dame de ses amies, aussi pauvre qu’elle mais aussi fière, vînt la surprendre."
} |
31 | {
"en": "As for me, vespers over, I waited, reading in the cold dining-room, until she opened the door to show me how she was getting on.",
"fr": "Et moi, les vêpres finies, j’attendais, en lisant dans la froide salle à manger, qu’elle ouvrît la porte pour me montrer comment ça lui allait."
} |
32 | {
"en": "That Sunday, a little excitement in front of the church kept me out-of-doors after vespers.",
"fr": "Ce dimanche-là, quelque animation devant l’église me retint dehors après vêpres."
} |
33 | {
"en": "A christening, under the porch, had attracted a crowd of urchins.",
"fr": "Un baptême, sous le porche, avait attroupé des gamins."
} |
34 | {
"en": "In the square a few villagers had put on their firemen's jackets and piled their arms ; stiff and stamping their feet with cold, they were listening to Boujardon, the corporal, losing himself in theory ...",
"fr": "Sur la place, plusieurs hommes du bourg avaient revêtu leurs vareuses de pompiers ; et, les ... |
35 | {
"en": "The christening bells stopped suddenly, like festive chimes at a mistaken time and place. Boujardon and his men, rifles slung over their shoulders, dragged off the fire engine at a slow trot, and I saw them disappear at the first turning, followed by four silent urchins, crushing under their heavy boots the ... |
36 | {
"en": "In the village the only place left alive was the Café Daniel, from which I heard the murmurs of the drinkers' talk rise and fall, and hugging the low wall of the big playground which separated our house from the village, I came, rather anxious at being late, to the small gate.",
"fr": "Dans le bourg, il n’... |
37 | {
"en": "It was ajar and I saw at once that something unusual was happening.",
"fr": "Elle était entr’ouverte et je vis aussitôt qu’il se passait quelque chose d’insolite."
} |
38 | {
"en": "In fact, there stood, outside the dining-room door - the nearest of the five glass doors opening on the playground - a grey-headed woman, leaning forward and trying to look through the curtains.",
"fr": "En effet, à la porte de la salle à manger – la plus rapprochée des cinq portes vitrées qui donnaient su... |
39 | {
"en": "She was small and wore a black old- fashioned velvet bonnet.",
"fr": "Elle était petite, coiffée d’une capote de velours noir à l’ancienne mode."
} |
40 | {
"en": "Her face was thin and refined, but worn with anxiety, and, at sight of her, I do not know what misgiving made me stand still on the first step, in front of the gate.",
"fr": "Elle avait un visage maigre et fin, mais ravagé par l’inquiétude ; et je ne sais quelle appréhension, à sa vue, m’arrêta sur la prem... |
41 | {
"en": "'My goodness, where's he gone!' she was muttering to herself.",
"fr": "– Où est-il passé ? mon Dieu ! disait-elle à mi-voix."
} |
42 | {
"en": "'He was with me a moment ago.",
"fr": "Il était avec moi tout à l’heure."
} |
43 | {
"en": "He must have gone all round the house already.",
"fr": "Il a déjà fait le tour de la maison."
} |
44 | {
"en": "Perhaps he's run away ...'",
"fr": "Il s’est peut-être sauvé…"
} |
45 | {
"en": "And after each sentence she gave three barely perceptible little taps on the window-pane.",
"fr": "Et, entre chaque phrase, elle frappait au carreau trois petits coups à peine perceptibles."
} |
46 | {
"en": "No one came to let in the unknown visitor.",
"fr": "Personne ne venait ouvrir à la visiteuse inconnue."
} |
47 | {
"en": "Without any doubt Millie had received her hat from the station, and, hearing nothing, at the end of the red bedroom, before a bed bestrewed with old ribbons and uncurled feathers, she was stitching, undoing, and remaking her modest headgear. In fact, as soon as I came into the dining-room, followed closely b... |
48 | {
"en": "She smiled at me, from blue eyes tired with working till dusk, and exclaimed:",
"fr": "Elle me sourit, de ses yeux bleus fatigués d’avoir travaillé à la chute du jour, et s’écria :"
} |
49 | {
"en": "'Look!",
"fr": "– Regarde !"
} |
50 | {
"en": "I was waiting to show you , . .'",
"fr": "Je t’attendais pour te montrer…"
} |
51 | {
"en": "But noticing that woman sitting in the big armchair at the other end of the room, she stopped, disconcerted.",
"fr": "Mais, apercevant cette femme assise dans le grand fauteuil, au fond de la salle, elle s’arrêta, déconcertée."
} |
52 | {
"en": "She quickly removed her hat, and during the whole scene that followed, held it against her breast, inside out, like a nest resting in the bend of her right arm.",
"fr": "Bien vite, elle enleva sa coiffure, et, durant toute la scène qui suivit, elle la tint contre sa poitrine, renversée comme un nid dans so... |
53 | {
"en": "The woman with the old-fashioned bonnet had begun to explain herself. She held between her knees an umbrella and a leather handbag, slightly nodding her head the while, and clicking her tongue as do village women when paying a call.",
"fr": "La femme à la capote, qui gardait, entre ses genoux, un parapluie... |
54 | {
"en": "She had regained full assurance, and when she spoke of her son she even assumed a superior and mysterious manner which puzzled us.",
"fr": "Elle eut même, dès qu’elle parla de son fils, un air supérieur et mystérieux qui nous intrigua."
} |
55 | {
"en": "They had both driven from La Ferté d'Angillon, fourteen kilometres from Sainte-Agathe.",
"fr": "Ils étaient venus tous les deux, en voiture, de La Ferté-d’Angillon, à quatorze kilomètres de Sainte-Agathe."
} |
56 | {
"en": "Herself a widow - and very rich, as she gave us to understand - she had lost the younger of her two children, a boy called Antoine, who had suddenly died one evening, on returning from school, after bathing with his brother in a dirty pond.",
"fr": "Veuve – et fort riche, à ce qu’elle nous fit comprendre –... |
57 | {
"en": "She had decided to let Augustin, the elder boy, board with us, that he might take the Higher Course.",
"fr": "Elle avait décidé de mettre l’aîné, Augustin, en pension chez nous pour qu’il pût suivre le Cours Supérieur."
} |
58 | {
"en": "And forthwith she began to praise this boarder whom she was bringing us.",
"fr": "Et aussitôt elle fit l’éloge de ce pensionnaire qu’elle nous amenait."
} |
59 | {
"en": "I could no longer recognise the grey-headed woman whom, only a minute ago, I had seen stooping in front of the door, with the piteous and haggard bearing of a hen who has lost the wildest chick in her brood.",
"fr": "Je ne reconnaissais plus la femme aux cheveux gris, que j’avais vue courbée devant la port... |
60 | {
"en": "What she was relating with admiration about her son was surprising enough; he loved doing things to please her, he had often gone along the river-bank for miles barelegged, to bring her wild ducks' and moor hens' eggs hidden amongst the reeds ... He could set nets . . . The other night, he had found a pheasa... |
61 | {
"en": "I, who hardly dared to enter the house if I had torn my overall, looked at Millie with astonishment.",
"fr": "Moi qui n’osais plus rentrer à la maison quand j’avais un accroc à ma blouse, je regardais Millie avec étonnement."
} |
62 | {
"en": "But Mother was no longer listening.",
"fr": "Mais ma mère n’écoutait plus."
} |
63 | {
"en": "She even motioned to the woman to be quiet; and putting down her 'nest' on the table with great care, she got up silently as if to take some one by surprise ...",
"fr": "Elle fit même signe à la dame de se taire ; et déposant avec précaution son « nid » sur la table, elle se leva silencieusement comme pour... |
64 | {
"en": "Above us, indeed, in a box-room where the blackened remains of the last fourteenth of July fireworks were piled up, an unknown step trod confidently to and fro, shaking the ceiling, crossed the huge dark lumber-rooms of the upper storey and passed at last towards the unused assistant masters' rooms, where li... |
65 | {
"en": "'A little while ago,' said Millie in a low voice, 'I heard that noise in the rooms downstairs ; I thought it was you, François, come back ...'",
"fr": "– Déjà, tout à l’heure, j’avais entendu ce bruit dans les chambres du bas, dit Millie à mi-voix, et je croyais que c’était toi, François, qui étais rentré…... |
66 | {
"en": "No one answered.",
"fr": "Personne ne répondit."
} |
67 | {
"en": "We stood, the three of us, with beating hearts ; then the attic door which led to the kitchen was heard to open; some one came down, crossed the kitchen, and appeared in the dim entrance of the dining-room. 8",
"fr": "Nous étions debout tous les trois, le cœur battant, lorsque la porte des greniers qui don... |
68 | {
"en": "'Why! It is you, Augustin!' said the visitor.",
"fr": "– C’est toi, Augustin ? dit la dame."
} |
69 | {
"en": "He was a tall boy of seventeen, or thereabout.",
"fr": "C’était un grand garçon de dix-sept ans environ."
} |
70 | {
"en": "At first, as night was falling, I saw only his peasant felt hat, pushed to the back of his head, and his black overall tightly belted in the fashion of schoolboys.",
"fr": "Je ne vis d’abord de lui, dans la nuit tombante, que son chapeau de feutre paysan coiffé en arrière et sa blouse noire sanglée d’une c... |
71 | {
"en": "I could see, too, that he was smiling . . .",
"fr": "Je pus distinguer aussi qu’il souriait…"
} |
72 | {
"en": "He saw me, and before any one had had time to demand an explanation:",
"fr": "Il m’aperçut, et, avant que personne eût pu lui demander aucune explication :"
} |
73 | {
"en": "'Aren't you coming into the playground?' he asked.",
"fr": "– Viens-tu dans la cour ? dit-il."
} |
74 | {
"en": "I hesitated for a moment.",
"fr": "J’hésitai une seconde."
} |
75 | {
"en": "Then, as Millie did not keep me back, I took up my cap and went towards him.",
"fr": "Puis, comme Millie ne me retenait pas, je pris ma casquette et j’allai vers lui."
} |
76 | {
"en": "We left by the kitchen door and went into the yard under the shelter where darkness was already gathering.",
"fr": "Nous sortîmes par la porte de la cuisine et nous allâmes au préau, que l’obscurité envahissait déjà."
} |
77 | {
"en": "In the dim evening light I watched, as I walked, his sharp-featured face with its straight nose and downy lip.",
"fr": "À la lueur de la fin du jour, je regardais, en marchant, sa face anguleuse au nez droit, à la lèvre duvetée."
} |
78 | {
"en": "'Look,' said he, 'I found this in your box-rooms.",
"fr": "– Tiens, dit-il, j’ai trouvé ça dans ton grenier."
} |
79 | {
"en": "You couldn't have looked at these things.'",
"fr": "Tu n’y avais donc jamais regardé ?"
} |
80 | {
"en": "He was holding in his hand a little wheel of blackened wood; a string of partly burnt squibs was twisted round it; evidently a Catherine wheel from the fireworks display on the fourteenth of July.",
"fr": "Il tenait à la main une petite roue en bois noirci ; un cordon de fusées déchiquetées courait tout au... |
81 | {
"en": "'Two of them didn't go off. We will set them alight,' said he, in the tone of voice of one who hopes to make better finds later on.",
"fr": "– Il y en a deux qui ne sont pas parties : nous allons toujours les allumer, dit-il d’un ton tranquille et de l’air de quelqu’un qui espère bien trouver mieux par la ... |
82 | {
"en": "He threw his hat to the ground, and I saw that his hair was cropped like a peasant's.",
"fr": "Il jeta son chapeau par terre et je vis qu’il avait les cheveux complètement ras comme un paysan."
} |
83 | {
"en": "He showed me two squib lighters with their paper tapers which the flame had singed, before going out.",
"fr": "Il me montra les deux fusées avec leurs bouts de mèche en papier que la flamme avait coupés, noircis, puis abandonnés."
} |
84 | {
"en": "He stuck the axle of the wheel into the sand and - to my astonishment, as such things were strictly forbidden me - pulled out of his pocket a box of matches.",
"fr": "Il planta dans le sable le moyeu de la roue, tira de sa poche – à mon grand étonnement, car cela nous était formellement interdit – une boît... |
85 | {
"en": "Bending down with care, he lighted the squib.",
"fr": "Se baissant avec précaution, il mit le feu à la mèche."
} |
86 | {
"en": "Then, taking hold of my hand, he quickly drew me back.",
"fr": "Puis, me prenant par la main, il m’entraîna vivement en arrière."
} |
87 | {
"en": "A moment, later, as she came out of the door with Meaulnes' mother after having discussed and settled the boarding fees, my mother saw two sheaves of red-and-white stars rising up under the shelter, hissing like bellows. For a moment's space she caught a glimpse of me as I stood in this magic light, holding ... |
88 | {
"en": "Once again, she dated not say anything.",
"fr": "Cette fois encore, elle n’osa rien dire."
} |
89 | {
"en": "And that evening, at dinner, there sat at our table a silent guest who ate with lowered head, paying no attention to the three pairs of eyes fixed upon him.",
"fr": "Et le soir, au dîner, il y eut, à la table de famille, un compagnon silencieux, qui mangeait, la tête basse, sans se soucier de nos trois reg... |
90 | {
"en": "II",
"fr": "CHAPITRE II"
} |
91 | {
"en": "AFTER FOUR O'CLOCK",
"fr": "APRÈS QUATRE HEURES"
} |
92 | {
"en": "Then I had never loafed about in the streets with the other village boys.",
"fr": "Je n’avais guère été, jusqu’alors, courir dans les rues avec les gamins du bourg."
} |
93 | {
"en": "An affection of the hip from which I had suffered up to this year of 189- had made me nervous and wretched.",
"fr": "Une coxalgie, dont j’ai souffert jusque vers cette année 1891… m’avait rendu craintif et malheureux."
} |
94 | {
"en": "I still see myself chasing the nimble schoolboys in the alleys round our home, hopping wretchedly on one leg . . .",
"fr": "Je me vois encore poursuivant les écoliers alertes dans les ruelles qui entouraient la maison, en sautillant misérablement sur une jambe…"
} |
95 | {
"en": "So I was seldom allowed to go out, and I recall that Millie, who was very proud of me, more than once brought me home and boxed my ears for having been caught hopping thus with some village urchins.",
"fr": "Aussi ne me laissait-on guère sortir. Et je me rappelle que Millie, qui était très fière de moi, me... |
96 | {
"en": "The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes, at the very time of my cure, marked the beginning of a new life.",
"fr": "L’arrivée d’Augustin Meaulnes, qui coïncida avec ma guérison, fut le commencement d’une vie nouvelle."
} |
97 | {
"en": "Before his coming, a dreary evening of loneliness began for me when lessons were over at four.",
"fr": "Avant sa venue, lorsque le cours était fini, à quatre heures, une longue soirée de solitude commençait pour moi."
} |
98 | {
"en": "Father was in the habit of carrying into the dining-room grate the fire remaining in the classroom stove; and, little by little, the last boys who had lingered behind left the chilled building, thick with clouds of smoke.",
"fr": "Mon père transportait le feu du poêle de la classe dans la cheminée de notre... |
99 | {
"en": "There were still a few games, some galloping races in the playground, then night came; the two pupils who had swept the classroom fetched their hoods and cloaks, and with their baskets under their arms went away quickly, leaving the big gate open ...",
"fr": "Il y avait encore quelques jeux, des galopades ... |
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