CONTENTS
ALPHONSE DAUDET
FROMONT AND RISLER
BOOK 1.
CHAPTER I. A WEDDING-PARTY AT THE CAFE VEFOUR
CHAPTER II. LITTLE CHEBE’S STORY
CHAPTER III. THE FALSE PEARLS
CHAPTER IV. THE GLOW-WORMS OF SAVIGNY
CHAPTER V. HOW LITTLE CHEBE’S STORY ENDED
CHAPTER VI. NOON—THE MARAIS IS BREAKFASTING
BOOK 2.
CHAPTER VII. THE TRUE PEARL AND THE FALSE
CHAPTER VIII. THE BREWERY ON THE RUE BLONDEL
CHAPTER IX. AT SAVIGNY
CHAPTER X. SIGISMOND PLANUS TREMBLES FOR HIS CASH-BOX
CHAPTER XI. THE INVENTORY
CHAPTER XII. A LETTER
CHAPTER XIII. THE JUDGE
BOOK 3.
CHAPTER XIV. EXPLANATION
CHAPTER XV. POOR LITTLE MAM’ZELLE ZIZI
CHAPTER XVI. THE WAITING-ROOM
CHAPTER XVII. AN ITEM OF NEWS
CHAPTER XVIII. SHE PROMISED NOT TO TRY AGAIN
CHAPTER XIX. APPROACHING CLOUDS
CHAPTER XX. REVELATIONS
BOOK 4.
CHAPTER XXI. THE DAY OF RECKONING
CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW EMPLOYEE OF THE HOUSE OF FROMONT
CHAPTER XXIII. CAFE CHANTANT
CHAPTER XXIV. SIDONIE’S VENGEANCE
Nominally Daudet, with the Goncourts and Zola, formed a trio representing Naturalism in fiction. He adopted the watchwords of that school, and by private friendship, no less than by a common profession of faith, was one of them. But the students of the future, while recognizing an obvious affinity between the other two, may be puzzled to find Daudet’s name conjoined with theirs.
Decidedly, Daudet belonged to the Realistic School. But, above all, he was an impressionist. All that can be obs