French Stories/Contes Francais

French Stories/Contes Francais"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." Germaine Bre, New York University Drawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the beliefs of various literary schools, but the preoccupations of French civilization, at the various times of their composition, with the metaphysical and psychological

from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame

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Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century

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architecture constituted a noble art

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they developed a revolutionary wing design that helped solve the crucial problem of maintaining lateral equilibrium

Collectors have paid many thousands of dollars for one of Stradivari's violins

Cannell rationally explains how the master escaped bank vaults

brush strokes

blood corpuscles

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