THE WORKS OF ANATOLE FRANCE
IN AN ENGLISH TRANSLATON
EDITED BY FREDERIC CHAPMAN
CRAINQUEBILLE
PUTOIS, RIQUET
CRAINQUEBILLE
PUTOIS, RIQUET
AND OTHER PROFITABLE TALES
BY ANATOLE FRANCE
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THE BALLANTYNE PRESS TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON
TO
ALEXANDRE STEINLEN
AND TO
LUCIEN GUITRY
WHO, THE FORMER IN A SERIES OF ADMIRABLE DRAWINGS THE LATTER IN A FINE DRAMATIC CREATION, HAVE INVESTED WITH A TRAGIC GREATNESS THE HUMBLE FIGURE OF MY POOR COSTERMONGER.
NOTE
The section entiled "Riquet" forms Chapter 11 of "Monsieur Bergeret à Paris" and is here included as an introduction to Riquet's "Meditations."
A story entitled "Onésime Dupont" appears both in the volume here presented and in the one entitled "Pierre Nozière." In the English edition it will be reproduced in the latter volume only.
| CRAINQUEBILLE | 1 |
| PUTOIS | 49 |
| RIQUET | 77 |
| THE MEDITATIONS OF RIQUET | 87 |
| THE NECKTIE | 95 |
| THE MONTIL MANŒUVRES | 105 |
| ÉMILE | 119 |
| ADRIENNE BUQUET | 129 |
| THE INTAGLIO | 143 |
| LA SIGNORA CHIARA | 163 |
| UPRIGHT JUDGES | 169 |
| THE OCEAN CHRIST | 179 |
| JEAN MARTEAU | 189 |
| I. A Dream | 191 |
| II. The Law is dead but the Judge is living | 199 |
| MONSIEUR THOMAS | 207 |
| A SERVANT'S THEFT | 219 |
| EDMÉE, OR CHARITY WELL BESTOWED | 229 |
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1915, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1944, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 79 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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