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When composing La Mare au Diable, in 1846, Madame Sand looked forward to writing a series of such peasant tales, to be collectively entitled Les Veillées du Chanvreur, the hemp-beaters being, as will be recollected, the Scheherazades of each village.
'And pray remember, said Anne, 'that your favourite brown bread is made of all those kinds mixed bran, and pastry-flour, and all. 'Yes, said Helen, 'all the world would turn idiots if there were not a few sensible people to raise the others. 'Well, said Elizabeth, 'you know the Veillees du Chateau says, there is a village where all the people do turn idiots at fourteen.
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