First 50 rows of train
| idstring | translationTranslation |
|---|---|
| 0 | {"en":"The Wanderer","fr":"Le grand Meaulnes"} |
| 1 | {"en":"Alain-Fournier","fr":"Alain-Fournier"} |
| 2 | {"en":"First Part","fr":"PREMIÈRE PARTIE"} |
| 3 | {"en":"I","fr":"CHAPITRE PREMIER"} |
| 4 | {"en":"THE BOARDER","fr":"LE PENSIONNAIRE"} |
| 5 | {"en":"He arrived at our home on a Sunday of November, 189-.","fr":"Il arriva chez nous un dimanche de novembre 189-…"} |
| 6 | {"en":"I still say 'our home,' although the house no longer belongs to us.","fr":"Je continue à dire « chez nous », bien que la maison ne nous appartienne plus."} |
| 7 | {"en":"We left that part of the country nearly fifteen years ago and shall certainly never go back to it.","fr":"Nous avons quitté le pays depuis bientôt quinze ans et nous n’y reviendrons certainement jamais."} |
| 8 | {"en":"We were living in the building of the Higher Elementary Classes at Sainte-Agathe's School.","fr":"Nous habitions les bâtiments du Cours Supérieur de Sainte-Agathe."} |
| 9 | {"en":"My father, whom I used to call M. Seurel as did other pupils, was head of the Middle School and also of the Higher Elementary classes where pupils worked for the preliminary teacher's examination.","fr":"Mon père, que j’appelais M. Seurel, comme les autres élèves, y dirige… |
| 10 | {"en":"My mother taught the infants.","fr":"Ma mère faisait la petite classe."} |
| 11 | {"en":"At the extreme end of the small town, a long red house with five glass doors and a Virginia creeper upon its walls ; an immense courtyard with shelters, a washhouse and a huge gateway, on the side looking towards the village; on the north side, a small gate opening on the … |
| 12 | {"en":"At the time of some new 'appointments,' a whim of fate, due to some inspector or to the Prefect, had led us there.","fr":"Le hasard des « changements », une décision d’inspecteur ou de préfet nous avaient conduits là."} |
| 13 | {"en":"Towards the end of the summer holidays, a long time ago, a peasant cart, preceding our household goods, deposited my mother and myself before the little rusty gate.","fr":"Vers la fin des vacances, il y a bien longtemps, une voiture de paysan, qui précédait notre ménage, n… |
| 14 | {"en":"Urchins who were stealing peaches in the garden silently escaped through holes in the hedge . . . My mother, whom we used to call Millie and who was the most methodical housekeeper I ever knew, had at once gone into the rooms full of dusty straw, and had declared with much… |
| 15 | {"en":"She had come out to impart her trouble to me. While speaking she had, with her handkerchief, gently wiped my face blackened by the journey.","fr":"Tout en me parlant, elle avait essuyé doucement avec son mouchoir ma figure d’enfant noircie par le voyage."} |
| 16 | {"en":"Then she had gone back to consider what doors and windows would have to be blocked to make the place habitable ... As for me, wearing a big straw hat with streamers, I was left alone on the gravel of that strange playground, waiting for her, prying shyly around the well an… |
| 17 | {"en":"Thus to-day I picture our arrival.","fr":"C’est ainsi, du moins, que j’imagine aujourd’hui notre arrivée."} |
| 18 | {"en":"For as soon as I wish to bring back the distant memory of that first evening when I waited in out playground at Sainte-Agathe, at once it is another kind of waiting which I recall, at once I see myself again, both hands pressed to the bars of the front gate, anxiously watc… |
| 19 | {"en":"If I try to imagine that first night which I must have spent in my attic, amidst the lumber-rooms on the upper storey, I recall other nights; I am no longer alone in that room; a tall, restless, and friendly shadow moves along its walls and walks to and fro.","fr":"Et si j… |
| 20 | {"en":"And that quiet countryside - the school, old Father Martin's field, with its three walnut trees, the garden daily invaded on the stroke of four by women paying calls - all this is, in my memory, forever stirred and transformed by the presence of him who upset all our youth… |
| 21 | {"en":"Yet we had already been ten years in that district when Meaulnes arrived.","fr":"Nous étions pourtant depuis dix ans dans ce pays lorsque Meaulnes arriva."} |
| 22 | {"en":"I was fifteen.","fr":"J’avais quinze ans."} |
| 23 | {"en":"It was a cold Sunday of November, the first day of autumn to make one think of winter.","fr":"C’était un froid dimanche de novembre, le premier jour d’automne qui fît songer à l’hiver."} |
| 24 | {"en":"All day Millie had waited for the station omnibus to bring her a hat for the bad weather.","fr":"Toute la journée, Millie avait attendu une voiture de La Gare qui devait lui apporter un chapeau pour la mauvaise saison."} |
| 25 | {"en":"That morning she missed Mass, and right up to the sermon, from my place in the choir with the other children, I looked anxiously towards the door to see her come to church wearing her new hat.","fr":"Le matin, elle avait manqué la messe ; et jusqu’au sermon, assis dans le … |
| 26 | {"en":"In the afternoon, I had to go to vespers alone.","fr":"Après midi, je dus partir seul à vêpres."} |
| 27 | {"en":"'Anyhow,' she said to comfort me, brushing my little suit with her hand, 'even if it had come, this precious hat, I should have had to spend my Sunday making it up again.'","fr":"– D’ailleurs, me dit-elle, pour me consoler, en brossant de sa main mon costume d’enfant, même… |
| 28 | {"en":"This is how our winter Sundays were often spent.","fr":"Souvent nos dimanches d’hiver se passaient ainsi."} |
| 29 | {"en":"In the early morning Father went off to some misty pond to jack-fish from a boat, and Mother retired till nightfall into her dark bedroom, to remake her simple dresses.","fr":"Dès le matin, mon père s’en allait au loin, sur le bord de quelque étang couvert de brume, pêcher… |
| 30 | {"en":"She shut herself up in that way for fear some lady visitor, as poor as herself and as proud, might surprise her at the job.","fr":"Elle s’enfermait ainsi de crainte qu’une dame de ses amies, aussi pauvre qu’elle mais aussi fière, vînt la surprendre."} |
| 31 | {"en":"As for me, vespers over, I waited, reading in the cold dining-room, until she opened the door to show me how she was getting on.","fr":"Et moi, les vêpres finies, j’attendais, en lisant dans la froide salle à manger, qu’elle ouvrît la porte pour me montrer comment ça lui a… |
| 32 | {"en":"That Sunday, a little excitement in front of the church kept me out-of-doors after vespers.","fr":"Ce dimanche-là, quelque animation devant l’église me retint dehors après vêpres."} |
| 33 | {"en":"A christening, under the porch, had attracted a crowd of urchins.","fr":"Un baptême, sous le porche, avait attroupé des gamins."} |
| 34 | {"en":"In the square a few villagers had put on their firemen's jackets and piled their arms ; stiff and stamping their feet with cold, they were listening to Boujardon, the corporal, losing himself in theory ...","fr":"Sur la place, plusieurs hommes du bourg avaient revêtu leurs… |
| 35 | {"en":"The christening bells stopped suddenly, like festive chimes at a mistaken time and place. Boujardon and his men, rifles slung over their shoulders, dragged off the fire engine at a slow trot, and I saw them disappear at the first turning, followed by four silent urchins, c… |
| 36 | {"en":"In the village the only place left alive was the Café Daniel, from which I heard the murmurs of the drinkers' talk rise and fall, and hugging the low wall of the big playground which separated our house from the village, I came, rather anxious at being late, to the small g… |
| 37 | {"en":"It was ajar and I saw at once that something unusual was happening.","fr":"Elle était entr’ouverte et je vis aussitôt qu’il se passait quelque chose d’insolite."} |
| 38 | {"en":"In fact, there stood, outside the dining-room door - the nearest of the five glass doors opening on the playground - a grey-headed woman, leaning forward and trying to look through the curtains.","fr":"En effet, à la porte de la salle à manger – la plus rapprochée des cinq… |
| 39 | {"en":"She was small and wore a black old- fashioned velvet bonnet.","fr":"Elle était petite, coiffée d’une capote de velours noir à l’ancienne mode."} |
| 40 | {"en":"Her face was thin and refined, but worn with anxiety, and, at sight of her, I do not know what misgiving made me stand still on the first step, in front of the gate.","fr":"Elle avait un visage maigre et fin, mais ravagé par l’inquiétude ; et je ne sais quelle appréhension… |
| 41 | {"en":"'My goodness, where's he gone!' she was muttering to herself.","fr":"– Où est-il passé ? mon Dieu ! disait-elle à mi-voix."} |
| 42 | {"en":"'He was with me a moment ago.","fr":"Il était avec moi tout à l’heure."} |
| 43 | {"en":"He must have gone all round the house already.","fr":"Il a déjà fait le tour de la maison."} |
| 44 | {"en":"Perhaps he's run away ...'","fr":"Il s’est peut-être sauvé…"} |
| 45 | {"en":"And after each sentence she gave three barely perceptible little taps on the window-pane.","fr":"Et, entre chaque phrase, elle frappait au carreau trois petits coups à peine perceptibles."} |
| 46 | {"en":"No one came to let in the unknown visitor.","fr":"Personne ne venait ouvrir à la visiteuse inconnue."} |
| 47 | {"en":"Without any doubt Millie had received her hat from the station, and, hearing nothing, at the end of the red bedroom, before a bed bestrewed with old ribbons and uncurled feathers, she was stitching, undoing, and remaking her modest headgear. In fact, as soon as I came into… |
| 48 | {"en":"She smiled at me, from blue eyes tired with working till dusk, and exclaimed:","fr":"Elle me sourit, de ses yeux bleus fatigués d’avoir travaillé à la chute du jour, et s’écria :"} |
| 49 | {"en":"'Look!","fr":"– Regarde !"} |
