Category: Short Stories
The _conte_ is a form of fiction in which the French have always delighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the _jongleurs_ and the _trouvères_, past the periods of La Fontaine and Voltaire, down to the present. The _conte_ is a tale, something more tha...
"Oh, what a horrible night I passed! Think of it, monsieur le curé, that poor woman's labor for twenty years destroyed in a minute by an unhappy chance; because a child, rummagi...
4. Chapter 4Not very intelligent, idle, clumsy with his hands, the only trade he could learn there was not a good one--that of reseating straw chairs. However, he was obedient, naturally qu...
2. Chapter 2Having established in these terms the injustice of fate, the Captain reached the threshold of his dear café, but he saw there such a mob of blue blouses, he heard such a din of...
5. Chapter 5He knew--none better than he--how everything in this environment--the charm of the women, the wit of the men, the glittering table, the furnishing of the hall, to the exquisite...
3. Chapter 3And the happy father, keeping his hat on his head and carrying his little girl, showed me all over his establishment--the dining-room, brightened by light bits of faience, the s...
1. Chapter 1The _conte_ is a form of fiction in which the French have always delighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the _jongleurs_ and the _trouvères_, past the...
7. Chapter 7Age comes--ah, how fast age comes! And behold! now in the glass cage of the shop there is a slender and beautiful young girl sitting at the side of Madame Bayard, who already sh...