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But during the past ten years France has entered the lists; and the writings of Reville, Reuss, Nicolas, D'Eichthal, Scherer, and Colani testify to the rapidity with which the German seed has fructified upon her soil. But now, in annexing Alsace, Germany has "annexed" pretty much the whole of this department of French scholarship, a curious incidental consequence of the late war.
"Colani was feared and dreaded as a diabolical and supernatural being; and indeed he took no pains to undeceive the public, for the superstitious terrors inspired by his person served to keep away all the chamois-hunters from his chamois, which he cared for and managed as a great lord cares for the deer in his forests.
And while we waited for the water to boil, he related to us the story of Colani, the legendary hunter of the upper Engandine. "Colani, in forty years, killed two thousand seven hundred chamois. This strange man had carved out for himself a little kingdom in the mountain. He claimed to reign there alone, to be absolute master.
Strauss; traduite par M. Littré, Membre de l'Institut. Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie Chrétienne, publiée sous la direction de M. Colani, de 1850
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