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    The Country Of The Blind: Bilingual Edition (English – French)
    The Country Of The Blind: Bilingual Edition (English – French)
    The Country Of The Blind: Bilingual Edition (English – French)
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    The Country Of The Blind: Bilingual Edition (English – French)

    By Herbert George Wells

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    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

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    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJun 26, 2018
    The Country Of The Blind: Bilingual Edition (English – French)

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      The Country Of The Blind - Herbert George Wells

      THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

      LE PAYS DES AVEUGLES

      Bilingual Edition

      English - French

      Herbert George Wells

      translated by

      Henry-David Davray

      THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

      LE PAYS DES AVEUGLES

      Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from all the world of men, the Country of the Blind.

      Long years ago that valley lay so far open to the world that men might come at last through frightful gorges and over an icy pass into its equable meadows, and thither indeed men came, a family or so of Peruvian half-breeds fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish ruler.

      À plus de trois cents milles du Chimborazo, à une centaine de milles des neiges du Cotopaxi, dans la région la plus déserte des Andes équatoriales, s’étend la mystérieuse vallée: le Pays des Aveugles.

      Il y a fort longtemps, cette vallée était suffisamment accessible pour que des gens, en franchissant d’effroyables gorges et un glacier périlleux, parvinssent jusqu’à ses pâturages; et, en effet, quelques familles de métis péruviens s’y réfugièrent, fuyant la cruauté et la tyrannie de leurs maîtres espagnols.

      Then came the stupendous outbreak of Mindobamba, when it was night in Quito for seventeen days, and the water was boiling at Yaguachi and all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayaquil;

      Puis vint la stupéfiante éruption du Mindobamba, qui, pendant dix-sept jours, plongea Quito dans les ténèbres; les eaux bouillaient à Yaguachi, et sur les rivières, jusqu’à Guyaquil, les poissons morts flottaient.

      everywhere along the Pacific slopes there were land-slips and swift thawings and sudden floods, and one whole side of the old Arauca crest slipped and came down in thunder, and cut off the Country of the Blind for ever from the exploring feet of men. But one of these early settlers had chanced to be on the hither side of the gorges when the world had so terribly shaken itself, and he perforce had to forget his wife and his child and all the friends and possessions he had left up there, and start life over again in the lower world.

      Partout, sur le versant du Pacifique, il y eut des avalanches, des éboulements énormes, des dégels subits et des inondations; l’antique crête montagneuse de l’Arauca glissa et s’écroula avec un bruit de tonnerre, élevant à jamais une infranchissable barrière entre le Pays des Aveugles et le reste des hommes.

      Au moment où se produisit ce bouleversement, un des premiers colons de la vallée était parti pour une importante mission; n’ayant pu retrouver sa route, il lui fallut, par force, oublier sa femme, son fils, ses amis et tous les biens qu’il avait laissés dans la montagne. Il recommença une existence nouvelle dans le monde de la plaine;

      He started it again but ill, blindness overtook him, and he died of punishment in the mines; but the story he told begot a legend that lingers along the length of the Cordilleras of the Andes to this day.

      He told of his reason for venturing back from that fastness, into which he had first been carried lashed to a llama, beside a vast bale of gear, when he was a child.

      mais la maladie et la cécité l’accablèrent, et, pour s’en débarrasser, on l’envoya mourir dans les mines.

      Pourquoi avait-il quitté cette retraite dans laquelle il avait été transporté tout enfant, lié avec un ballot d’affaires sur le dos d’un lama? L’histoire qu’il raconta pour expliquer son voyage fut l’origine d’une légende qui s’est perpétuée jusqu’à nos jours au long de la cordillère des Andes.

      The valley, he said, had in it all that the heart of man could desire—sweet water, pasture, an even climate, slopes of rich brown soil with tangles of a shrub that bore an excellent fruit, and on one side great hanging forests of pine that held the avalanches high. Far overhead, on three sides, vast cliffs of grey-green rock were capped by cliffs of ice; but the glacier stream came not to them, but flowed away by the farther slopes, and only now and then huge ice masses fell on the valley side. In this valley it neither rained nor snowed, but the abundant springs gave a rich green pasture, that irrigation would spread over all the valley space.

      La vallée, prétendait-il, jouissait d’un climat égal, et contenait tout ce que pouvait désirer le cœur de l’homme: de l’eau douce, des, pâturages, des pentes de riche terre brune garnies d’arbrisseaux à fruits excellents; d’un côté, grimpaient de vastes forêts de pins qui retenaient les avalanches, et partout ailleurs la vallée était bornée par de hautes murailles de roches gris vert surmontées d’un faîtage de glaces. Les eaux de la fonte des neiges ne venaient pas jusque-là mais se déversaient ailleurs par de lointaines déclivités; parfois, cependant, à de très longs intervalles, d’énormes masses se détachaient du glacier et dégringolaient vers la vallée, sans y atteindre. Jamais il n’y pleuvait et n’y neigeait; seules d’abondantes sources, dont les canaux d’irrigation conduisaient les eaux en tous sens, arrosaient les gras pâturages.

      The settlers did well indeed there. Their beasts did well and multiplied, and but one thing marred their happiness. Yet it was enough to mar it greatly. A strange disease had come upon them and had made all the children born to them there—and, indeed, several older children also—blind.

      Le bétail se multipliait, les colons prospéraient vraiment, mais un souci inquiétait leur bonheur: une étrange calamité s’était abattue sur eux, qui rendait aveugles tous les enfants qui leur naissaient et même plusieurs de ceux qu’ils avaient amenés avec eux...

      It was to seek some charm or antidote against this plague of blindness that he had with

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