Women, children, and the masses are all governed by fear.

That was the great secret of the Convention, and of the Emperor, too." "Good heavens! is this the forest of Bondy ?" cried the general.
"My dear," said Sibilet's wife, appearing at this moment, "your breakfast is ready.

Pray excuse him, Monsieur le comte; he has eaten nothing since morning for he was obliged to go to Ronquerolles to deliver some barley." "Go, go, Sibilet," said the general.
The next morning the count rose early, before daylight, and went to the gate of the Avonne, intending to talk with the one forester whom he employed and find out what the man's sentiments really were.
Some seven or eight hundred acres of the forest of Les Aigues lie along the banks of the Avonne; and to preserve the majestic beauty of the river the large trees that border it have been left untouched for a distance of three leagues on both sides in an almost straight line.

The mistress of Henri IV., to whom Les Aigues formerly belonged, was as fond of hunting as the king himself.

In 1593 she ordered a bridge to be built of a single arch with shelving roadway by which to ride from the lower side of the forest to a much larger portion of it, purchased by her, which lay upon the slopes of the hills.