CHRIST IN FLANDERS

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC


Translated by Ellen Marriage




DEDICATION

To Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders, of whom
these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quaint legend
of old Flanders.

DE BALZAC.




CHRIST IN FLANDERS



At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication
between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a
boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg,