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JUANA
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
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CHAPTER I
EXPOSITION
Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced
into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and
disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded
military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to
pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being re-
established, each regiment quartered in its respective lines, and the
commandant of the city appointed, military administration began. The
place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though all things anized on a
French system, the Spaniards were left free to follow "in petto" their
national tastes.
This period of pillage (it is difficult to determine how long it lasted)
had, like all other sublunary effects, a cause, not so difficult to discover. In
the marechal's army was a regiment, composed almost entirely of Italians
manded by a certain Colonel Eugene, a man of remarkable
bravery, a second Murat, who, having entered the military service too late,
obtained neither a Grand Duchy of Berg nor a Kingdom of Naples, nor
balls at the Pizzo. But if he won no crown he had ample opportunity to
obtain wounds, and it was not surprising that he met with several. His
regiment posed of the scattered fragments of the Italian legion.
This legion was to Italy what the colonial battalions are to France. Its
permanent cantonments, established on the island of Elba, served as an
honorable place of exile for the troublesome sons of good families and for
those great men who have just missed greatness, whom society brands
with a hot iron and designates by the term "mauvais sujets"; men who are
for the most part misunderstood; whose existence may e either
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noble through the smile of a woman lifting them out of their rut, or
shocking at the close of y under the influence of some damnable
reflection dropped by a rade.
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