Du Phoenix: 1059 books

Mr. Maloureau , former imperial province prosecutor says the case of Moiron teacher.  

One evening , in front of Corsica , speaking of happiness, an old man tells a singular memory. During a trip to this island, he spent the night at an old couple. The woman had once been rich . It reveals to the passing stranger happiness alongside former sergeant of hussars who abducted from her parents . The man was : what can it add to its simple contentment happiness?  

François Tessier is an employee of the ministry. He takes the bus every morning at Batignolles to get to central Paris. There he met an employee of store that makes the same trip . Small smiles, handshakes , a few words : this half- hour in the bus is currently the " most charming "...

Two old men are walking in a spring garden. The pollen flies . One of them drew a parallel between germination and the many bastards would have had the other . He believes he has had intercourse with two or three hundred women , and as such , it is right to think that it can have descendants that he does not know. This revives her pain on an old case ...  

There was once a man who had three sons, and nothing else in the world but the house in which he lived....

Charles and Kate were husband and wife. He left to do his work. She started to fry a sausage and thought she could get a beer while it cooked. In the cellar, drawing it, she realized the dog was loose and might eat the sausage, but the dog had already done so, and she chased it but could not catch...

A peasant begged some land from the king. When he and his daughter dug the field, they found a mortar made of gold. The daughter warned that if they gave it to the king for his kindness, he would ask for the pestle as well; the father gave it nonetheless, and the king asked for the pestle and put him in prison until he got it. ...

Once upon a time there lived a respectable young tailor called Labakan, who worked for a clever master in Alexandria. No one could call Labakan either stupid or lazy, for he could work extremely well and quickly when he chose; but there was something not altogether right about him...

When the King heard of the peasant's words he fell into a passion, and commanded the Jew to go and bring the offender to him. The Jew ran to the peasant, "You are to go at once to the lord King in the very clothes you have on." "I know what's right better than that," answered...

A poor peasant-boy one day heard the priest say in church that whosoever desired to enter into the kingdom of heaven must always go straight onward...

A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had three eyes; two on the sides of her head and a third in the middle of her forehead....

Once upon a time there lived a man who had nearly as many children as there were sparrows in the garden. He had to work very hard all day to get them enough to eat, and was often tired and cross, and abused everything and everybody, so that people called him 'Father Grumbler.'

Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who longed to have a son. As none came, one day they made a vow at the shrine of St. James that if their prayers were granted the boy should set out on a pilgrimage as soon as he had passed his eighteenth birthday. And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from hunting and saw a baby lying in the cradle...

Once upon a time there lived a poor man who had more children than bread to feed them with. However, they were strong and willing, and soon learned to make themselves of use to their father and mother, and when they were old enough they went out to service, and everyone was very glad to get them...