Du Phoenix: 1059 books

In the family castle , the young Berthe reads the his grandmother newspaper. Political pages do not excite , she wants to hear about love. Berthe reads the story of a woman who threw vitriol in the figure of her husband's mistress , who was paid to the applause of the crowd. Then, it is a mature...

As every year , Gaston will do the kings in Chantal and , surprise, he's the king, who has to choose a queen. This will be Miss Pearl ...  

Saint Michel ruled the rock and surrounding cays , while Satan had all the nice fat land. Saint Michel unable to do more of his poverty proposes a deal : he will give him half of the crops and will do all the work. Satan, who is a slacker , agrees . Saint Michael asks him if he wants crops that are...

Jean Marin , son of a provincial bailiff had gone to Paris to study law in the Latin Quarter . He had become friends with students paid policy. Later , having had no success as a lawyer he renewed acquaintance with one of his student friends had meanwhile become MP. It serves as his handyman and...

The Samoris Countess arrived in Paris a few years there is a courtesan who collects men , relationships do not last more than six weeks . Yveline , his daughter, is a young beautiful and innocent girl . She surprises one day the conversation of two men about his mother that he deals with luxury prostitute .  

The old baron Ravots is now paralyzed for six years and can not hunt . In good weather , we took him on a chair on the porch with a servant to load the rifles and another to let go pigeons . So he spends his days . When comes the season of the hunt, all hunters in the area are invited to...

The two friends were getting near the end of their dinner. Through the cafe windows they could see the Boulevard, crowded with people. They could feel the gentle breezes which are wafted over Paris on warm summer evenings and make you feel like going out somewhere, you care not where, under the trees, and make you dream of moonlit rivers, of fireflies and of larks.

A friend of the narrator, very imbued with local history, tells the following story : Mrs Husson, model under Gisors, is prefixed to promote chastity in his city capping a rosière . But no girl can resist the investigation of manners , as Ms. Husson folds it on the simple spirit of the village...

This news is inspired by a true story . As ''Boule de Suif'' . Two friends taking place during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Two comrades Morissot Wild and decide to go fishing in the Ile Marante in Colombes despite the instructions of the occupants. Arrested as spies...

On a whim of his wife, M. de Cadour be found in Fécamp. A friend of Mr. Apreval, accompanies them. Hiding from her husband, the old woman leads her partner and former lover in search of their son left there it was more than forty years...

Mr. Patissot , fifty-two years old boy, without great future employee in a department where all laugh at him , is worried. His doctor prescribed exercise and he decided to practice walking every Sunday. He meticulously prepared his first outing to the park of Versailles . But he gets lost...

Toine , innkeeper at Tournevent nicknamed Toine, love to laugh and have fun, until he was paralyzed following an attack . He finds himself at the thank you of his wife who decides to use it in a very strange task : make him hatching eggs! .  

Abbe Marignan is a great lean and fanatical priest , there is no hesitation in his belief , the whole universe is ordered by God in an absolute and admirable logic. The woman is for him a source of unconscious hatred , they are beings that must be approached with caution and defensive needs love exasperates and inconvenient.  

There lived, once upon a time, in the land of Marigliano, a poor woman called Masella, who had six pretty daughters, all as upright as young fir-trees, and an only son called Antonio, who was so simple as to be almost an idiot. Hardly a day passed without his mother saying to him, ‘What...