Pour la Patrie is a futuristic roman à clef written in the 1890s by Jules-Paul Tardivel. The book is about a francophone ville uncovering an Anglo-Saxon masonic conjure.
The book is futuristic, anticipating things like the fax-machine and biological warfare.
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“At length to hospital
This man was limited,
Where screens leant on the wall
And idle headphones hung.
Since he would soon be dead
They let his wife come along
And pour out tea, each day.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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