Produced by Mireille Harmelin and Keith Adams
Translated for Project Gutenberg by Mireille Harmelin & Keith Adams©2009
1. Foreword.
2. First Impressions.
3. The Coach from Beaucaire.
4. Master-Miller Cornille's Secret.
5. Monsieur Seguin's Last Kid Goat.
6. The Stars.
7. The Arlesienne.
8. The Pope's Mule.
9. The Lighthouse on the Sanguinaires.
10. The Wreck of the Sémillante
11. The Customs' Men.
12. The Cucugnanian Priest.
13. The Old Folks.
14. Prose Ballads I—Death of the Dauphin. II—The Sub-Prefect Takes A Day Off.
15. Bixiou's Wallet.
16. The Man with the Golden Brain.
17. The Poet, Frédéric Mistral.
18. The Three Low Masses.
19. The Oranges.
20. The Two Inns.
21. At Milianah.
22. The Locusts.
23. Father Gaucher's Elixir.
24. In the Camargue.
25. Nostalgia for the Barracks and Paris.
As witnessed by Master Honorat Grapazi, lawyer at the residence of
Pampérigouste.
"As summoned
"Mr Gaspard Mitifio, husband of Vivette Cornille, tenant at the placecalled Les Cigalières and resident there.
"Who herewith has sold and transferred under guarantee by law and deedand free of all debts, privileges and mortgages,
"To Mr Alphonse Daudet, poet, living in Paris, here present andaccepting it.
"A windmill and flourmill, located in the Rhône valley, in the heart ofProvence, on a wooded hillside of pines and green oaks; being the saidwindmill, abandoned for over twenty years, and not viable for grinding,as it appears that wild vines, moss, rosemary, and other parasiticgreenery are climbing up to the sails;
"Notwithstanding the condition it is in and performs, with its grindingwheel broken, its platform brickwork grown through with grass, thisaffirms that the Mr Daudet finds the said windmill to his liking andable to serve as a workplace for his poetry, and accepts it whateverthe risk and danger, and without any recourse to the vendor for anyrepairs needing to be made thereto.
"This sale has taken place outright for the agreed price, that the MrDaudet, poet, has put and deposed as a type of payment, which price hasbeen redeemed and received by the Mr Mitifio, all the foregoing havingbeen seen by the lawyers and the undersigned witnesses, whose bills areto be confirmed.
"Deed made at Pampérigouste, in Honorat's office, in the presence ofFrancet Mamaï, fife player, and of Louiset, known as Quique, crucifixcarrier for the white penitents;
"Who have signed, together with the parties above and the lawyer afterreading it."
I am not sure who was the more surprised when I arrived—me or therabbits…. The door had been bolted and barr