More of the master’s best stories, all with a distinctive and distinctively Gallic touch, vous comprenez ?
All of these stories have been translated specially for this site.
An e-book, with the original French texts in an annex, is available for downloading below.
The original French texts can also be seen here. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. ON A SPRING EVENING (1881) Jeanne and Jacques have grown up together, have fallen in love and are engaged to be married, much to the satisfaction of (…)
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