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The hero of Colette’s 1920 novel Chéri, Fred Peloux, is a young man in love with Léa, a woman nearly twice his age. As many readers know, such a relationship might be quite enough to fuel a fascin ...
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The Characters: The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldie ...
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Voltaire’s brilliant 1759 satire Candide is the story of a hopeful young man who must cope with seeing his world fall completely apart. Candide, educated by a spirited tutor named Pangloss, lives in ...
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publiée à Amsterdam en 1644, in-4°, et ibid., in-4°, 1656. DISCOURS DE LA MÉTHODE POUR BIEN CONDUIRE SA RAISON, ET CHERCHER LA VÉRITÉ DANS LES SCIENCES. Si ce discours semble trop long pour ê ...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
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If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rul ...
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At night, in winter, when the snow-flakes fall slowly from heaven like great white tears, I raise my voice; its resonance thrills the cypress trees and makes them bud anew. I pause an instant in my sw ...
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CLAIR DE LUNE. Of being sad in their fantastic trim. The fountains tall to sob with ...
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André Gide. Georges Palante. I. L'an 1890, sous le pontificat de Léon XIII, la renommée du docteur X, spécialiste pour maladies d'origine rhumatismale, appela à Rome Anthime Armand-Dubois, fran ...
Boule de Suif (et autres contes)
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Pendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'armée en déroute avaient traversé la ville. Ce n'était point de la troupe, mais des hordes débandées. Les hommes avaient la barbe longue et sale, ...
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One of the first European novels ever written, La Princesse de Clèves is a dazzling work of historical fiction. A young and beautiful girl, Mademoiselle de Chartres, arrives at the French king’s co ...
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EUGÉNIE GRANDET. Scènes de la vie de Province. Par HONORÉ DE BALZAC. _Que votre nom, vous dont le portrait est le plus bel ornement de cet ouvrage, soit ici comme une branche de buis bénit, prise ...
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The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman
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THE SHOPKEEPER TURNED GENTLEMAN. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE BY CHARLES HERON WALL. PERSONS REPRESENTED. MR. JOURDAIN. CLEONTE, _in love with_ LUCILE. DORANTE, _a count, in love with_ DORIMENE. COVI ...
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THE IMAGINARY INVALID. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE BY CHARLES HERON WALL. PERSONS REPRESENTED. ARGAN, _an imaginary invalid_. BELINE, _second wife to_ ARGAN. ANGELIQUE, _daughter to_ ARGAN, _in lov ...
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Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away. You hurry so, I hardly can attend you. Then don't, my daughter-in law. Stay where you are. I can dispense with your polite attentions. We're only paying what ...
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CHAPTER I. Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering from having remained in a thin loose jacket, exposed to the fresh air at the window, she had thrown herself acro ...
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ACT THE FIRST. Scene I.--CHIMENE and ELVIRA. _Chimene._ Elvira, have you given me a really true report? Do you conceal nothing that my father has said? _Elvira._ All my feelings within me are still de ...
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