Strange missing text

I am rather disturbed to discover that, as in the case of "The Phantom of the Opera", a direct comparison between the public domain French and English texts appears to show that the latter is not only different in minor detail as already observed, but appears to have been quite significantly abridged, at least at this point. (Unexpected, as one would have thought they might have cut out the 'boring' bits about the Fronde and its politics earlier on, but scarcely the details of the rescue plan for the King's escape, or the duel with Mordaunt!)

*Sigh* Clearly I simply picked the wrong English text from Project Gutenberg... a quick glance at another one shows that it appears to include the missing sections, but is simply an uncorrected OCR scan which is therefore hard to read.


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[Edit: it looks as if it *is* only specific sections affected, or at least affected to this degree. But the main effect, as with "The Phantom of the Opera", is to eliminate characterisation in what is presumably the name of advancing the plot in broader strokes more quickly...]