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“What you have just told us, Uncle Paul,” Jules remarked, “is not unlike what navigators tell us of the life of savages.”
“Nevertheless,” rejoined his uncle, “it is our own history, my friend; it is really a chapter of French history.”
“I never read anything like it in my history-book.”
“Your schoolbooks generally begin with the Frankish chief, Pharamond, at an epoch when civilization had already made considerable progress, and when agriculture and grazing had been known for a long time. My story goes back to a much earlier period, one almost lost in the darkness of the past, and shows us man in his painful beginnings, unskilled and almost wholly dependent on hunting for his food and clothing.via the TL;DR App
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