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El sombrero de tres picos by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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Comenzaba este largo siglo, que ya va de vencida.
—No se sabe fijamente el año: sólo consta que era después del de 4 y antes del de 8.
Reinaba, pues, todavía en España don Carlos IV de Borbon,— por la gracia de Dios , según las monedas, y por un olvido o gracia especial de Bonaparte, según los boletines franceses.
—Los demas soberanos europeos descendientes de Luis XIV habían perdido ya la corona (y el jefe de ellos la cabeza) en la deshecha borrasca que corria esta vieja parte del mundo desde 1789.
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This long century, which is now drawing to a close, was beginning.
The exact year is not known: it is only certain that it was after the year 4 and before the year 8.
So King Charles IV of Bourbon still reigned in Spain—by the grace of God, according to the coins, and by an oversight or special grace of Bonaparte, according to the French bulletins.
The other European sovereigns descended from Louis XIV had already lost their crowns (and the chief of them, his head) in the violent storm that had been sweeping this old part of the world since 1789.
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Andalusia in the first years of the 1800s: the Corregidor, the magistrate whose three-cornered hat gives the book its title, sets his heart on the miller's beautiful wife, and one night of plots, swapped clothes and mistaken identities follows. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's comic tale is the story Manuel de Falla later turned into a ballet.
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El sombrero de tres picos by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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