COMPLETE Celebrated Crimes: Karl-Ludwig Sand by A. Dumas -ck

[Carolin]

Celebrated Crimes Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand by Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870).

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This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a prominent dramatist, a student of Musäus, whose royalist and conservative writings ultimately led to his assassination by a member of a revolutionary liberal Burschenschaft. ( Carolin)

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[Carolin]

Section 1
please read until
"I confess that, like all my brothers and sisters, I owe to you that beautiful and great part of my education which I have seen to be lacking to most of those around me. Heaven alone can reward you by a conviction of having so nobly and grandly fulfilled your parental duties, amid many others."

Section 2
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After having paid a visit to his brother at St. Gall, Sand reached Tubingen, to which he had been principally attracted by the reputation of Eschenmayer; he spent that winter quietly, and no other incident befell than his admission into an association of Burschen, called the Teutonic;
please read until
The meetings of the Burschen took place upon a little hill crowned by a ruined castle, which was situated at some distance from Erlangen, and which Sand and Dittmar had called the Ruttli, in memory of the spot where Walter Furst, Melchthal, and Stauffacher had made their vow to deliver their country; there, under the pretence of students' games, while they built up a new house with the ruined fragments, they passed alternately from symbol to action and from action to symbol.

Section 3
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Meanwhile the association was making such advances throughout Germany that not only the princes and kings of the German confederation, but also the great European powers, began to be uneasy. France sent agents to bring home reports, Russia paid agents on the spot, and the persecutions that touched a professor and exasperated a whole university often arose from a note sent by the Cabinet of the Tuileries or of St. Petersburg.
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The two young men laughed heartily over this murderous demonstration, and A. S. related it that evening at the wine-shop as one of the peculiarities of character that were common in his friend. After the event, the pantomime explained itself.

Section 4
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The month of March arrived. Sand became day by day calmer, more affectionate, and kinder; it might be thought that in the moment of leaving his friends for ever he wished to leave them an ineffaceable remembrance of him. At last he announced that on account of several family affairs he was about to undertake a little journey
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Except that a little strength has returned to me, its state is still the same, and I endure it calmly and patiently; for God comes to my help, and gives me courage and firmness. He will help me, believe me, to find all the joys of the soul and to be strong in mind. Amen. "May you live happy!—Your deeply respectful son, "KARL-LUDWIG SAND."

Section 5
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A month after this letter came tender answers from all the family. We will quote only that of Sand's mother, because it completes the idea which the reader may have formed already of this great-hearted woman, as her son always calls her.
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The rest of the day was spent in seeing more visitors and in philosophical and moral talks, in which Sand developed his social and religious theories with a lucidity of expression and an elevation of thought such as he had, perhaps, never before shown. The governor of the prison from whom I heard these details, told me that he should all his life regret that he did not know shorthand, so that he might have noted all these thoughts, which would have formed a pendant to the Phaedo.

Section 6
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Night came. Sand spent part of the evening writing; it is thought that he was composing a poem; but no doubt he burned it, for no trace of it was found. At eleven he went to bed, and slept until six in the morning. Next day he bore the dressing of his wound, which was always very painful, with extraordinary courage, without fainting, as he sometimes did, and without suffering a single complaint to escape him

[Carolin]

we are ready for claims and a dpl

i really liked this part of the celebrated crimes, because it discusses a period of history that most people dont know about. plus it looks like alexandre dumas did really a lot of research on this case and made his descriptions very accurate and still as readable as fiction.

[mbm0rxi]

I'd like to do section 1.
Mary

[Carolin]

thank you mary!

[NeuEv]

I'd like to do section 2, if I could.

[Carolin]

hi and welcome to librivox!

you are welcome to read that section

to be able to sign you up, i need to know under which name or pseudonym you would like to appear in the catalog. we can also link to your personal website or blog.

please also complete the one minute test before getting started on any other recording!

[NeuEv]

Thanks! I've put my name in my signature, which I can see is the common way to do this. I'll complete the test.

[Carolin]

well this is not the common way to specify a catalog name, but ill sign you up as tristan anyway
your personal catalog page is here: https://librivox.org/reader/10693 !

[mbm0rxi]

Here is section 1 at 18:49. Wasn't sure whether to call it section 1 or chapter 1 in the intro,and at end, so just let me know what you want and I'll fix it !

Thanks,
Mary


https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/karlludwigsand_1_dumas_128kb.mp3

[Carolin]

thank you very much mary!

and sorry, youre right, it should be section as there are no chapters. i changed it in the first post

[mbm0rxi]

Ok here is section 1 with the right terminology lol

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/karlludwigsand_1_dumas_128kb.mp3

[Carolin]

thanks!

[afutterer]

I can DPL if you like.

[Carolin]

that would be great, thanks a lot!