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Title: The Tremendous Event

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Translator: Alexander Teixera de Mattos

Release Date: August 9, 2010 [EBook #33386]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The TREMENDOUS EVENT MAURICE LE BLANC]

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE WOMAN OF MYSTERY
THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
THE SECRET OF SAREK
EYES OF INNOCENCE
THE THREE EYES
THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK

[Illustration: "You don't regret anything, Isabel?" he whispered.]

THE TREMENDOUS EVENT

BY MAURICE LE BLANC

TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

NEW YORK
THE MACAULAY COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
THE MACAULAY COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The tremendous event of the 4th. of June, whose consequences affected
the relations of the two great Western nations even more profoundly
than did the war, has called forth, during the last fifty years, a
constant efflorescence of books, memoirs and scientific studies of
truthful reports and fabulous narratives. Eye-witnesses have related
their impressions; journalists have collected their articles into
volumes; scientists have published the results of their researches;
novelists have imagined unknown tragedies; and poets have lifted up
their voices. There is no detail of that tragic day but has been
brought to light; and this is true likewise of the days which went
before and of those which came after and of all the reactions, moral
or social, economic or political, by which it made itself felt,
throughout the twentieth century, in the destinies of the world.

There was nothing lacking but Simon Dubosc's own story. And it was
strange that we should have known only by reports, usually fantastic,
the part played by the man who, first by chance and then by his
indomitable courage and later still by his clear-sighted enthusiasm,
was thrust into the very heart of the adventure