Excerpt from Le Coq du Clocher
Ll est des personnes qui ne plaisantent jamais en matière de géographie; je viens faire un appel à leur indulgence. La magnanimité sied à l'érudition. Dans le cours de ce véridique récit, elles verront figurer des villes, des bourgs, des rivières qui ne sont portés sur aucune carte de France et semblent avoir été négligés par l'administration du cadastre. Le premier mouvement serait d'en conclure que ces villes, rivières et bourgs n'existent pas et sont pure ment imaginaires; je désire que l'on se tienne en garde contre ce jugement prématuré. Peut - être verra-t-ou plus tard que la fiction tient, dans ce qui va suivre, moins de place qu'il ne semble, et que tout s'y empreint, au contraire, d'une incontestable réalité.
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