martigne

Updated: May 1, 2025

The country was very much enclosed, producing a great contrast to the vast tracts of land through which I had passed without a single division. At two leagues from Mayenne we crossed the river Aisne, winding through a beautiful valley, between Martigné and Louverné. On the left the river forms a small lake, surrounded by a wood at the foot of a very long and steep hill.

W.D. Fellowes - A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 : With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. : Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot

Leaving Marseilles with a small army, commanded by two sans-culottes, they surround Martigne and enter it as if it were a mill. The catch is superb; in this town of five thousand souls there are only seventeen patriots; the rest are Federalists or Moderates. Hence a general disarmament and domiciliary visits.

Hippolyte Taine - The French Revolution - Volume 3

"Martigne," answered the humpbacked jailer, coming forward to the table. "Description?" "Ex-royalist coach-maker to the tyrant Capet." "Accusation?" "Conspiracy in prison." The president nodded, and entered in the book: "Martigne, coachmaker. Accused of conspiring in prison. Anticipated course of law by suicide. Action accepted as sufficient confession of guilt.

Wilkie Collins - After Dark