Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the _Rue Notre-Dame des Champs._ His father was a bookbinder and worked for the Religious Houses. Jean was a little weakling child, and his mother nursed him at her breast as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet, with the curved needle of the trade. One day as she was crossing the shop, humming a song, in the words of which she found expression for the vague, splendid visions of her maternal ambition, her foot slipped on the boards, which were moist with paste. Instinctively she threw up her arm to guard the child she held clasped to her bosom, and struck her breast, thus exposed, a severe blow against the corner of the iron press. She felt no very acute pain at the time, but later on an abscess formed, which got well, but presently reopened, and a low fever supervened that confined her to her bed. There, in the long, long evenings, she would fold her little one in her one sound arm and croon over him in a hot, feverish whisper bits of her favorite ditty: The fisherman, when dawn is nigh, Peers forth to greet the kindling sky...Above all, she loved the refrain that recurred at the end of each verse with only the change of a word. turn and turn about, General, Lawyer, and ministrant at the altar in her fond hopes

Anatole France (born Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist, who was a member of the Academie francaise and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

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