Du Phoenix: 1059 books

Berthe ... X wrote to his aunt Genevieve Z ... from Etretat. She complains about the boorishness , coarseness and rudeness of men. Back from hunting , sea baths , on the train , to the hotel, they misbehave and this hampered its sensitivity. Yesterday, for example , on the beach , she had to move to no longer hear the gritty stories told two men ...  

Jacques Bourdillère , a confirmed bachelor , fell under the spell of a girl seeing her swim at the sea. He falls in love very quickly , made ​​his marriage proposal , but parents are reluctant because of multiple bonds that it ready and an old mistress of record .  

The meeting on the Parisian boulevards between a negro and an officer is an opportunity for the latter to tell how the two men were known during the Franco -Prussian War of 1870 and tell two stories about this extraordinary man . He was a lieutenant and commanded a besieged citadel, a disparate band...

M. Saval , provincial notary ( seen as an artist for Vernon inhabitants) just spend an evening in Paris. Through a series of circumstances , it is embroiled in a party given by a famous painter. He first played the role of stooge , and involuntary and ridiculous attraction of the evening. He wakes up in the morning with a hangover , stripped of his clothes and all his affairs ...  

Berthe Savignol was raised by his parents in the dark about things in life . At eighteen, the naive young married Baron Georges , a handsome boy who does business on the stock exchange . It therefore leaves his country and goes to Paris where she frequents little world , content to stay in his street....

During the Franco -Prussian War of 1870, near Rethel, Berthine , daughter of Nicolas Pichon ranger , captured six Germans...  

This new tells the story of Morin Mercier in La Rochelle, returning from Paris where he spent fifteen days. At the station , he saw a young girl, Henriette Bonnel , falls under her charm and follows the train. Thinking she made ​​advances to him , he tries to kiss her. Frightened , the girl alert employees. Morin is stopped...

The narrator recounts the impressions he feels the arrival of spring , on the deck of a boat traveling on the Seine , he smiled at a girl . When he is about to approach a man stops his gesture and asked him to " beware of love" and tell him what happened to him last spring.  

It is the story of a singular adventure reached a boater of the Seine on his way home, after dining with a friend. He stops to smoke a pipe when trembles because of a strange movement in his sailboat that makes the wobble as the middle of a storm. He decides to pull his anchor and go, but...

ouvenet Pierre offers his friend Paul to be his companion for a short stay in Italy. Paul hesitated a little, but finally agreed when Pierre evokes the beauty of young Italian women. In the train that takes them to Genoa, an unknown installs in the car the two men who are quick to get to know. Not...

During an evening , General de G **** horrible tells two stories : one set during the 1870 war , the other concerns the end of the Flatters Mission in 1881 .  

Jean Bridelle , fifty years old boy , returns to a small event which he witnessed . Young man, he studied law and went every morning to walk in the nursery of the Luxembourg Gardens ; quiet, he read a little and listened to the sounds of Paris . In the garden , he prides himself curiosity for an...

“That Costly Ride” by Guy de Maupassant is about a man who ends up being taken to the cleaners–financially wise–because of an accident...

The couple farmers is before the pallet where dying old . The priest has said he will not last the night. The man asks if he must ensure his stepfather to go to the fields. His wife advised him to go to work , since the funeral will be held Saturday. Then they changed their minds : there best time to prevent the vicinity of the death of the old ; this will save time tomorrow...