Year Eight, at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to adopt the present calendar, towards the end of September, 1799, some hundred peasants and a pretty large number of townsmen, who had left Fougeres in the morning forM ayenne, were climbing the Pilgrim Hill, which lies nearly half-way between Fougeres andE rnee, a little town used by travelers as a half-way house. The detachment, divided into groups of unequal strength, presented a collection of costumes so odd, and included persons belonging to places and professions so different, that it may not be useless to describe their outward characteristics, in order to lend this history the lively coloring so much prized nowadays, notwithstanding that, as some critics say, it interferes with the portrayal of sentiments. Some (and the greater part) of the peasants went barefoot, with no garments but a large goatskin which covered them from neck to knee, and breeches of white linen of very coarse texture, woven of yarn so rough as to show the rudeness of the country manufacture.
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