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Title: A Mummer's Tale

Author: Anatole France

Translator: Charles E. Roche

Release Date: June 9, 2006 [EBook #18545]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE WORKS OF ANATOLE FRANCE
IN AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
EDITED BY J. LEWIS MAY AND
BERNARD MIALL

A MUMMER'S TALE

(HISTOIRE COMIQUE)

A MUMMER'S TALE

BY ANATOLE FRANCE

A TRANSLATION BY
CHARLES E. ROCHE

LONDON, JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMXXI

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. 1

II. 21

III. 26

IV. 41

V. 63

VI. 71

VII. 82

VIII. 97

IX. 108

X. 137

XI. 166

XII. 176

XIII. 181

XIV. 186

XV. 194

XVI. 197

XVII. 205

XVIII. 212

XIX. 220

XX. 230

A MUMMER'S TALE

A MUMMER'S TALE

CHAPTER I

The scene was an actress's dressing-room at the Odeon.

Felicie Nanteuil, her hair powdered, with blue on her eyelids, rouge on
her cheeks and ears, and white on her neck and shoulders, was ho