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    Christ in Flanders
    Christ in Flanders
    Christ in Flanders
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    Christ in Flanders

    By Ellen Marriage and Honoré de Balzac

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2003
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      A rather unremarkable morality tale about Jesus Christ taking a ferry then deciding who lives and dies when the boat sinks. Later, somebody has a dream in a church built in the same area. Little more than a Sunday School parable.

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    Christ in Flanders - Ellen Marriage

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Christ in Flanders, by Honore de Balzac

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

    Title: Christ in Flanders

    Author: Honore de Balzac

    Translator: Ellen Marriage

    Release Date: October, 1999 [Etext #1940]

    Posting Date: March 6, 2010

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRIST IN FLANDERS ***

    Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny

    CHRIST IN FLANDERS

    By Honore De Balzac

    Translated by Ellen Marriage

    DEDICATION

    To Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders, of whom these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quaint legend of old Flanders.

    DE BALZAC.

    CHRIST IN FLANDERS

    At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place.

    But though the town of Ostend consisted altogether of some score of houses and three hundred cottages, huts or hovels built of the driftwood of wrecked vessels, it nevertheless rejoiced in the possession of a governor, a garrison, a forked gibbet, a convent, and a burgomaster, in short, in all the institutions of an advanced civilization.

    Who reigned over Brabant and Flanders in those days? On this point tradition is mute. Let us confess at once that this tale savors strongly of the marvelous, the mysterious, and the vague; elements which Flemish narrators have infused into a story retailed so often to gatherings of workers on winter evenings, that the details vary widely in poetic merit and incongruity of detail. It has been told by every generation, handed down by grandames at the fireside, narrated night and day, and the chronicle has changed its complexion somewhat in every age. Like some great building that has suffered many modifications of successive generations of architects, some sombre weather-beaten pile, the delight of a poet, the story would drive the commentator and the industrious winnower of words, facts, and dates to despair. The narrator believes in it, as all superstitious minds in Flanders likewise believe; and is not a whit wiser nor more credulous than his audience. But as it would be impossible to make a harmony of all the different renderings, here are the outlines of the story; stripped, it may be, of its picturesque quaintness, but with all its bold disregard of historical truth, and its moral teachings approved by religion—a myth, the blossom of imaginative fancy; an allegory that the wise may

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