INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES
Reading edition
FRENCH STORIES
By Various Authors
Compiled By Francis J. Reynolds
1910
CONTENTS
A PIECE OF BREAD By Francois Coppee
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE By Honore De Balzac
THE AGE FOR LOVE By Paul Bourget
MATEO FALCONE By Prosper Merimee
THE MIRROR By Catulle Mendes
MY NEPHEW JOSEPH By Ludovic Halevy
A FOREST BETROTHAL By Erckmann-Chatrian
ZADIG THE BABYLONIAN By Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire
ABANDONED By Guy De Maupassant
JEAN MONETTE By Eugene Francois Vidocq
SOLANGE—DR. LEDRU’S STORY OF THE REIGN OF TERROR By Alexandre Dumas
THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX By Rene Bazin
JEAN GOURDON’S FOUR DAYS By Émile Zola
BARON DE TRENCK By Clemence Robert
THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA By Henry Murger
THE WOMAN AND THE CAT By Marcel Prevost
GIL BLAS AND DR. SANGRADO By Alain Rene Le Sage
A FIGHT WITH A CANNON By Victor Hugo
TONTON By A. Cheneviere
THE LAST LESSON By Alphonse Daudet
CROISILLES By Alfred De Musset
THE VASE OF CLAY By Jean Aicard