Installation

This title has a double référence to his formai occupation of the mill and to the autumnal retum of the flocks and herds to their neighboring winter quarters.

1. depuis si longtemps qu'ils voyaient : they had so long seen,

2. Jemmapes. A small town in Southern Belgium, an important stratégie point where the French defeated the Austrians November 6, 1792.

3. du premier : 0/ the first story. See Un Réveillon dans le Marais, note 22.