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    The Best French Short Stories
    The Best French Short Stories
    The Best French Short Stories
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Best French Short Stories

    Written by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant and Anatole France

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    An enchanting collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written by notable French authors.

    "Zodomirsky’s Duel", by Alexandre Dumas
    "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Marquise", by George Sand
    "Miss Harriet", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire
    "The Piece of String", by Guy de Maupassant
    "The Necklace", by Guy de Maupassant
    "An Episode of the Reign of Terror", by Honoré de Balzac
    "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
    "In the Reign of Terror", by Anatole France
    "Jeannot and Colin", by Voltaire
    "The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
    "The Paradise of Cats", by Emile Zolà
    "The Shoulders of the Marquise", by Emile Zolà
    "Jenny", by Victor Hugo
    "The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier
    "The Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir", by Alphonse Daudet
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781467682053
    The Best French Short Stories
    Author

    Victor Hugo

    The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.

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    • 5/5
      The book description missed a title, which I only noticed it cuz it is one of my favourite piece in this book. It’s the second last story ,called “the last lesson” by alphonse Daudet. Absolutely brilliant story in this brilliant collection of short stories. Recommend this book to everyone.

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