France
The Vase of Clay
Jean Aicard I Jean had inherited from his father a little field close beside the sea. Round this field the branches of ...
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The Last Lesson
Alphonse Daudet I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel ...
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Quettreville: the Gastaud House
Mocco Wollert The gentle rain runs in vaporous tears down the somber roof and powerful walls of the old granite house ...
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In Search of a Corsican Past
Bhama Daly “Impossib!” He shakes his head, shrugs his polo-clad shoulders. “What are you saying?” The word ‘saying’ pronounced in French ...
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Quettreville Hospitality
Mocco Wollert A generous table invites friend and traveler, precious hours are spent sharing crusty bread while amber liquid calls from ...
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Quettreville River
Mocco Wollert Evening sun brushes the landscape with summer glory, deep green river water twinkles with gold flecks, darting silver sparks ...
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Quettreville Church
Mocco Wollert Large portals guard its sanctity allowing my careful entrance only through a small hidden side door. Inside waits a ...
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Jean Monette
Eugene Francois Vidocq At the time when I first became commissary of police, my arrondissement was in that part of Paris which ...
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The Passage of the Red Sea
Henry Murger For five or six years Marcel had been engaged upon the famous painting which he said was meant to represent ...
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The Guilty Secret
Paul de Kock Nathalie De Hauteville was twenty-two years old, and had been a widow for three years. She was one of ...
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