{"product_id":"2940013037595","title":"HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF FRANCE","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFATHER MOSES AND HIS FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince you wish to know about the blockade of Phalsburg in 1814, I will\u003cbr\u003etell you all about it, said Father Moses of the Jews' street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI lived then in the little house on the corner, at the right of the\u003cbr\u003emarket.  My business was selling iron by the pound, under the arch\u003cbr\u003ebelow, and I lived above with my wife Sorlé (Sarah) and my little\u003cbr\u003eSâfel, the child of my old age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy two other boys, Itzig and Frômel, had gone to America, and my\u003cbr\u003edaughter Zeffen was married to Baruch, the leather-dealer, at Saverne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides my iron business, I traded in old shoes, old linen, and all the\u003cbr\u003earticles of old clothing which conscripts sell on reaching the depot,\u003cbr\u003ewhere they receive their military outfit.  Travelling pedlers bought\u003cbr\u003ethe old linen of me for paper-rags, and the other things I sold to the\u003cbr\u003ecountry people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was a profitable business, because thousands of conscripts passed\u003cbr\u003ethrough Phalsburg from week to week, and from month to month.  They\u003cbr\u003ewere measured at once at the mayoralty, clothed, and filed off to\u003cbr\u003eMayence, Strasburg, or wherever it might be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lasted a long time; but at length people were tired of war,\u003cbr\u003eespecially after the Russian campaign and the great recruiting of 1813.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121007280368,"sku":"2940013037595","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013037595_p0.jpg?v=1763575897","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013037595","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}