Paul De Kock: 28 books

Numa casa de Paris moram três rapazes, que levam uma existência boémia e passam a vida a pregar partidas aos vizinhos, que mal conhecem. Noutro apartamento moram duas meninas que, apesar de apreciarem as brincadeiras dos rapazes, não lhes dão a atenção...

The White House: Volume XII by Charles Paul de Kock. He was a French novelist. This book was published by THE JEFFERSON PRESS in 1904. Copyrighted, 1903-1904, by G. Barrie & Sons.  This scarce antiquarian book. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as blurred pictures. Because...

Extrait : "On était au mois de ventôse, c'était la seconde année de la république française, ce qui pour beaucoup de personnes se comprenait mieux par le mois de mars de l'an mil sept cent quatre-vingt-quatorze.À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques...

Extrait : « Beaumarchais a dit : "De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne!..." Mais Beaumarchais, qui voulait constamment faire de l'esprit, avançait souvent des paradoxes qu'il ne soutenait que par des plaisanteries. Non, le mariage n'est pas une chose bouffonne! »

Extrait : "...Ainsi les prédestinés qui sont l'objet de ce petit livre ne sont pas précisément les mêmes que ceux auxquels le paradis est réservé. Au contraire, car on dit avec beaucoup de vérité que Paris est le paradis des femmes et l'enfer des maris."

BnF collection ebooks - "...Ainsi les prédestinés qui sont l'objet de ce petit livre ne sont pas précisément les mêmes que ceux auxquels le paradis est réservé. Au contraire, car on dit avec beaucoup de vérité que Paris est le paradis des femmes et l'enfer des maris."

THE IDLERS.—BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS Three young men, arm in arm, were walking, or, to speak more accurately, loitering, along Boulevard des Italiens, looking to right and left, scrutinizing the women at close quarters, especially when they were pretty; commenting aloud on the face of one and the bearing...

UPON a certain evening in the month of December, of the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, a man walked at a rapid pace down the Rue Saint-Honoré and directed his steps towards the Rue Bourdonnais. The individual appeared to be forty years old or thereabouts; he was tall as to his figure...

Now, then, messieurs, as one should never be ungrateful, as one should bestow at least a single thought on those who have made one happy, I drink to my mistresses, messieurs, to whom I bid a last farewell to-day! "Well, messieurs, you would never believe how much injury my frankness did me, not only...

I RUE COUTURE-SAINTE-CATHERINE It was two o'clock on a cold, damp morning; the fine snow, which melted as soon as it touched the ground, made the streets slippery and dirty, and Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine,—then called Couture-Sainte-Catherine,—although it was one of the broadest streets in Paris,...

A NOCTURNAL WALK.—MY AUNT'S FIVE HUNDRED FRANCS The theatres had long since dismissed their audiences, the shops were closed, and the cafés were closing. Passers-by were becoming more and more infrequent, the cabs moved more rapidly, the street lights were burning, and the gas in the houses was disappearing;...

The belief in witchcraft and the persecution of those supposed to practice it have been almost universal in human history. Christianity inherited both the belief and the persecution from the religions, Jewish and pagan, which preceded it. But, under the influence of its monotheistic faith and its...

UPON a certain evening in the month of December, of the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, a man walked at a rapid pace down the Rue Saint-Honoré and directed his steps towards the Rue Bourdonnais. The individual appeared to be forty years old or thereabouts; he was tall as to his...

THE GRISETTE I was strolling along the boulevards one Saturday evening. I was alone, and in a meditative mood; contrary to my usual custom, I was indulging in some rather serious reflections on the world and its people, on the past and the present, on the mind and the body, on the soul, on thought, chance,...