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by Gillian Tindall


  iron-industry see forges

  Issoudun

  journeys

  Jouhanneau, Henri

  Journal de l’Indre

  judicial records

  Lafitte, Jacques

  Laurent

  lavoirs

  letters to Célestine

  Le Roy, Eugène

  lighting

  literacy

  linen-growing

  Loire

  Lloyd, Norman (painter); his house; see also Chaumette family, property

  Lorant, Henri

  Louis-Napoleon (Emperor)

  Lourdes

  madness

  Mairie, in Chassignolles; building of; records in; see also Municipal Registers; Secretary of; telephone in

  Magny, Le

  map of Chassignolles

  Mare au Diable, La, book; place

  marriages, age at; celebration of

  Mayer family

  medieval ways, persistance of

  Meunier d’Angibault, book; actual mill of Angibault

  military service

  millers

  Millet, Jean-François

  Montluçon

  Municipal Registers, in Chassignolles

  murder

  Nadaud, Martin

  Nantes

  Napoleon, Bonaparte

  Napoleonic Code

  Napoleonic wars

  Neuvy St Sepulcre

  Nohant

  nut oil

  oak forests

  ‘Olden Days’

  oldest inhabitants

  Pagnard, Jeanne (Mademoizelle); description of family; father; grandparents see Chartier; quoted only

  Pagnol, Marcel

  patois

  Paris: in Second World War; history moves away to; distant power in; emigration to; journey to; language of; railway to; news from; foundlings from; in the Revolution

  Parisians in the Berry

  paths

  peddlars

  pictures by Adolphine

  Pirot, Antoine

  Pirot, family; nineteenth-century mayor; present mayor

  Pissavy family; setting up in La Châtre; presence in Chassignolles; connection with George Sand

  Pissavy, Victor

  Pissavy-Yvernault, Louis

  population, rural; of Chassignolles; of Châteauroux; of the Indre; of La Châtre; see also birthrates

  postcards

  postal services

  poverty: tradition of; absolute; alleviation of; Bernardets’; Célestine’s; Chaumettes’; genteel; in La Châtre

  Préfet of the Indre

  progress: concepts of; George Sand’s perception of; lack of; in Célestine’s lifetime; after 1870; increase in prosperity; decline of old traditions; economic expansion; new buildings in Chassignolles; in twentieth century

  railways: coming of; schemes for; Châteauroux–La Châtre line; Châteauroux–Paris line; La Châtre station opened; branch lines; station near Chassignolles

  Republic, Second; ending of

  Republic, Third

  Republicanism: in George Sand; in 1870; of Silvain-Germain; in La Châtre; at Villemort; in Chassignolles

  Revolution, The; before; changes after; ideas from; pre-Revolutionary buildings; effects of; in Paris

  roads: between La Châtre and Châteauroux; early; coming of; between Chassignolles and La Châtre; improvement of; built by Napoleon; more constructed

  Robin, Blanche

  Robin, Charles: name on grave; birth; as child; working in inn; marriage, personality; in later life; death

  Robin, Pierre; opening inn in La Châtre; taking on Chassignolles inn; death

  Robin, Zénaïde; dates; birth; as a child; life; death

  Sand, George: naming Vallée Noire; château; origins; works; forseeing future; view of La Châtre; describing chanvreur; Republicanism of; rustic idylls; language of characters; teaching reading; first lover; fear of attack; friend; on love; seeing soldiers pass; association with Pissavy family; reputation

  ‘Saracens’

  Sarzay, castle; village

  Second Empire; celebrated in La Châtre; allegiance to; style of

  Second Republic see Republic, Second

  Second World War: in Paris; Bernardet’s experience of; Monsieur Démeure’s experience of; Occupation and resistance; since; refugees

  school see education

  Smith, Adam

  Ste Sévère

  St Aôut

  St Denis de Jouhet

  statue in wood

  stone masons

  suicide

  superstititions

  telephones

  Tours

  Vallet, Louis

  veillées

  Vierzon

  Villaines, family; Hotel de

  Villemort, Bois de; château

  Vincent, Raymonde

  Wars of Religion

  water supply

  weaving

  Weber, Eugen

  wool of Berry; flocks for

  wolves

  Young, Arthur

  Yvernaults (of forges); Louis; Charles; Madame Yvernault; Marie-Rachel

  Yvernaults (of inn)

  Zola, Émile

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  Copyright © 1995 by Gillian Tindall

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  First published in the United States in 1996 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

  Originally published in Great Britain in 1995 by Sinclair-Stevenson, an imprint of Reed Books Ltd.

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  ISBN 0-8050-4546-5

  First American Edition—1996

  Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward

  eISBN 9781466885738

  First eBook edition: October 2014

 

 

 


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