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Judith Gautier · 1875 · Free in the US
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Licence: PD-US · Published in 1875 (before 1931): public domain in the United States. Text and transcription from fr Wikisource by Wikisource contributors (transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; contributors: https://fr.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=L’Usurpateur&action=history). · Wikisource contributors
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L’USURPATEUR
ÉPISODE DE L’HISTOIRE JAPONAISE (1615)
La nuit allait finir. Tout dormait dans la belle et joyeuse Osaka. Seul, le cri strident des sentinelles s’appelant sur les remparts traversait par instants le silence que rien ne troublait plus, hors la lointaine rumeur de la mer dans le golfe.
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