Will O' The Mill: Bilingual Edition (English – French)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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Will O' The Mill - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Chapter I: The Plain and the Stars
I. La Plaine et les Étoiles
The Mill where Will lived with his adopted parents stood in a falling valley between pinewoods and great mountains.
Le moulin où Will vivait avec ses parents adoptifs se trouvait dans une vallée, entre des sapinières et de grandes montagnes.
Above, hill after hill, soared upwards until they soared out of the depth of the hardiest timber, and stood naked against the sky. Some way up, a long grey village lay like a seam or a ray of vapour on a wooded hillside; and when the wind was favourable, the sound of the church bells would drop down, thin and silvery, to Will. Below, the valley grew ever steeper and steeper, and at the same time widened out on either hand; and from an eminence beside the mill it was possible to see its whole length and away beyond it over a wide plain, where the river turned and shone, and moved on from city to city on its voyage towards the sea.
Plus haut, les pentes se succédaient d'un élan toujours plus hardi et, jaillissant à la fin au-dessus des bois les plus résistants, elles se dressaient toutes nues dans le ciel. Un peu plus loin, sur un contrefort boisé, un long village gris faisait comme un haillon de vapeur; et lorsque le vent était favorable, le son des cloches de l'église descendait grêle et argentin jusqu'à Will. Au-dessous, les parois de la vallée devenaient de plus en plus abruptes, mais s'écartaient en même temps; et d'une éminence proche du moulin, on la découvrait dans toute sa longueur, et au-delà, une vaste plaine où la rivière étincelait sinueuse et s'en allait de ville en ville vers la mer.
It chanced that over this valley there lay a pass into a neighbouring kingdom; so that, quiet and rural as it was, the road that ran along beside the river was a high thoroughfare between two splendid and powerful societies. All through the summer, travelling-carriages came crawling up, or went plunging briskly downwards past the mill; and as it happened that the other side was very much easier of ascent, the path was not much frequented, except by people going in one direction; and of all the carriages that Will saw go by, five-sixths were plunging briskly downwards and only one-sixth crawling up.
Or, cette vallée conduisait à un col débouchant sur le royaume voisin; de sorte que, malgré son calme et sa rusticité, la route qui longeait la rivière était la voie de communication principale entre deux illustres et puissantes nations. Tout l'été, les véhicules de voyage la gravissaient péniblement ou dévalaient à vive allure devant le moulin, mais comme l'ascension de l'autre versant était beaucoup plus aisée, la route n'était guère fréquentée que dans un sens; et de tous les véhicules que Will voyait passer, les cinq sixièmes dévalaient grand train et un sixième montait péniblement.
Much more was this the case with foot-passengers. All the light-footed tourists, all the pedlars laden with strange wares, were tending downward like the river that accompanied their path. Nor was this all; for when Will was yet a child a disastrous war arose over a great part of the world.
De même, et plus encore, pour les piétons. Les touristes alertes, les colporteurs chargés de marchandises singulières, descendaient tous à l'instar du courant qui longeait leur chemin.
Et ce n'était pas tout, car Will était encore enfant, qu'une effroyable guerre sévit sur une grande partie du monde.
The newspapers were full of defeats and victories, the earth rang with cavalry hoofs, and often for days together and for miles around the coil of battle terrified good people from their labours in the field. Of all this, nothing was heard for a long time in the valley; but at last one of the commanders pushed an army over the pass by forced marches, and for three days horse and foot, cannon and tumbril, drum and standard, kept pouring downward past the mill. All day the child stood and watched them on their passage - the rhythmical stride, the pale, unshaven faces tanned about the eyes, the discoloured regimentals and the tattered flags, filled him with a sense of weariness, pity, and wonder; and all night long, after he was in bed, he could hear the cannon pounding and the feet trampling, and the great armament sweeping onward and downward past the mill.
Les journaux étaient pleins de victoires et de défaites, la terre tremblait sous les sabots de la cavalerie, et maintes batailles se déroulèrent durant des jours et sur un espace de plusieurs milles, et l'épouvante chassait loin de leurs champs les rustiques travailleurs.
Tout cela resta longtemps ignoré dans la vallée; mais à la fin un des chefs lança une armée au-delà de la passe, à marches forcées, et trois jours durant, cavalerie et infanterie, artillerie et train, musique et drapeaux, ne cessèrent de se déverser sur la route devant le moulin. Tout le jour, l'enfant restait à regarder leur défilé: — le pas rythmé, les faces pâles et hirsutes, aux yeux cernés, les fanions régimentaires et les étendards en lambeaux, l'emplirent de lassitude, de pitié et d'étonnement; et toute la nuit, lorsqu'il fut couché, il entendit le roulement sourd des canons, le martèlement des pas et tout l'immense convoi balayer la route, interminablement, devant le moulin.
No one in the valley ever heard the fate of the expedition, for they lay out of the way of gossip in those troublous times; but Will saw one thing plainly, that not a man returned. Whither had they all gone? Whither went all the tourists and pedlars with strange wares? 1 whither all the brisk barouches with servants in the dicky? whither the water of the stream, ever coursing downward and ever renewed from above? 1
Nul dans la vallée n'apprit jamais le sort de l'expédition, car les rumeurs de ces temps troublés n'y parvenaient pas; mais Will s'aperçut bien d'une chose: que pas un homme n'en revint. Où étaient-ils partis, tous? Où allaient tous les touristes et les colporteurs aux marchandises singulières? et les berlines avec leurs laquais sur le siège de derrière? et l'eau de la rivière, dont le courant fuyait toujours vers