| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 351 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Contents |
Bretagne: You should have changed at Dol / Annie Saumont -- Basse-Normandie: Made for two / Daniel Boulanger -- Haute-Normandie: A Norman / Guy de Maupassant -- Nord-Pas-de-Calais: The voiceless / Christian Garcin -- Picardie: The garden of illusions / Pierre Mac Orlan -- Île-de-France: Rue de L'Évangile / Marcel Aymé -- Champagne Ardenne: Light souls / Stéphane Émond -- Lorraine: House in the woods / Stéphane Émond -- Alsace: The phantom of Rainbow Street / Didier Daeninckx -- Pays-de-la-Loire: The saviours of the white wine / René Bazin -- Centre: The cattle man / Daniel Boulanger -- Bourgogne: Where are the children? / Colette -- Franche-Comté: The vanishing / Louis Pergaud -- Poitou Charentes: Julie -- Jacques Chardonne -- Limousin: Four walls / Claude Michelet -- Auvergne: A mother's tale / Guy de Maupassant -- Rhône-Alpes: The bull from Jouvet / Paul Hervieu -- Aquitaine: We can't go on like this / Anne-Marie Garat -- Midi-Pyrénées: The flood -- Émile Zola -- Languedoc-Roussillon: The Beaucaire coach / Alphonse Daudet -- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: The Pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet -- Corse: Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Twenty-two translated stories associated with the regions of France, including both well-known and little-known writers. Offering a panoramic view of French society and culture, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love France and things French. - ;French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper M--eacute--;rim--eacute--;e in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twen. |
| Subject |
Short stories, French -- Translations into English.
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France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, French.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Short stories, French. (OCoLC)fst01117193
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Electronic books.
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Constantine, Helen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: French tales. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008298793 |
| ISBN |
0191550973 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191550973 (electronic bk.) |
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