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Title: International Short Stories: French
Author: Various
Release Date: January 2, 2004 [EBook #10577]
Language: English
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INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES
COMPILED BY
FRANCIS J. REYNOLDS
FRENCH
1910
FRENCH STORIES
A PIECE OF BREAD _By Francois Coppee_
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE _By Honore de Balzac_
THE AGE FOR LOVE _By Paul Bourget_
MATEO FALCONE _By Prosper Merimee_
THE MIRROR _By Catulle Mendes_
MY NEPHEW JOSEPH _By Ludovic Halevy_
A FOREST BETROTHAL _By Erckmann-Chatrian_
ZADIG THE BABYLONIAN _By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire_
ABANDONED _By Guy de Maupassant_
THE GUILTY SECRET _By Paul de Kock_
JEAN MONETTE _By Eugene Francois Vidocq_
SOLANGE _By Alexandre Dumas_
THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX _By Rene Bazin_
JEAN GOURDON'S FOUR DAYS _By Emile Zola_
BARON DE TRENCK _By Clemence Robert_
THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA _By Henry Murger_
THE WOMAN AND THE CAT _By Marcel Prevost_
GIL BLAS AND DR. SANGRADO _By Alain Rene Le Sage_
A FIGHT WITH A CANNON _By Victor Hugo_
TONTON _By A. Cheneviere_
THE LAST LESSON _By Alphonse Daudet_
CROISILLES _By Alfred de Musset_
THE VASE OF CLAY _By Jean Aicard_
A PIECE OF BREAD
BY FRANCOIS COPPEE
The young Due de Hardimont happened to be at Aix in Savoy, whose waters he
hoped would benefit his famous mare, Perichole, who had become wind-broken
since the cold she had caught at the last Derby,--and was finishing his
breakfast while glancing over the morning paper, when he read the news of
the disastrous engagement at Reichshoffen.
He emptied his glass of chartreuse, laid his napkin upon the restaurant
table, ordered his valet to pack his trunks, and two hours later took the
express to Paris; arriving there, he hastened to the recruiting office and
enlisted in a regiment of the line.
In vain had he led the enervating life of a fashionable swell--that was
the word of the time--and had knocked about r
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