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Project Gutenberg's International Short Stories: French, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: International Short Stories: French Author: Various Release Date: January 2, 2004 [EBook #10577] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRENCH SHORT STORIES *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Schaal and PG Distributed Proofreaders 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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