Project Gutenberg 2004-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 75 Silvestre, Armand 1837 1901 Silvestre, Paul-Armand Sylvestre, Armand Silvestre, A. (Armand) Sylvestre, Paul Armand Kauffmann, P. Contes irrévérencieux Reading ease score: 66.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. L'Invité -- Angélique -- Emballé -- Phonographe -- Le Hanneton -- La Boule -- Chabirou -- La Salière -- Malcousinat -- Tous farceurs -- Le Perroquet -- Conte vertueux -- Amany -- Restitution -- Sur le terrain -- Les Bottes -- L'Arche -- Madame Antoine -- L'Izard -- Démocratie -- Pasie -- L'Orage -- Vieux amis -- L'Invité. Produced by Tonya Allen, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr "Contes irrévérencieux" by Armand Silvestre is a collection of short stories likely written in the late 19th century. This work presents a satirical exploration of societal norms and human nature, featuring characters deeply entrenched in the follies and failures of their lives, particularly through the lens of absurdity and irony. At the start of the collection, the narrative introduces M. Rodamour, an aging bureaucrat living in the somewhat melancholic town of Lafouillouze-en-Vexin. He yearns for social acceptance and a sumptuous dinner invitation from the baron de Picpus, hoping to secure a taste of the refined life he perceives his peers enjoy. After much anxiety over social decorum and romantic aspirations toward the baroness, M. Rodamour finally receives a coveted invitation; however, just as he prepares for a night of glory, the dinner is abruptly canceled, leading to his public humiliation and deepening his feeling of isolation. This opening sets a comedic yet poignant tone, highlighting the themes of desire, social ambition, and the often-cruel reality of human relationships. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Short stories, French French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Nouvelles Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 290327 287603 2024-10-05T16:06:58.807994 2023-10-06T04:03:25.086820 text/html text/html 277169 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2821194 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3102786 2024-10-05T16:07:18.164866 application/epub+zip 3108821 2024-10-05T16:07:07.725919 application/epub+zip 172153 2024-10-05T16:07:00.876968 application/epub+zip 3018159 2024-10-05T16:07:22.189892 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2991438 2024-10-05T16:07:11.820980 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 297467 2022-09-06T18:42:24.832828 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266709 266496 2024-10-05T16:06:57.910961 2023-10-06T04:03:24.366806 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 261627 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 105611 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 261618 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 103645 2020-12-14T16:50:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23030 2024-10-05T16:07:22.344850 application/rdf+xml 13231 2024-10-05T16:07:01.440970 image/jpeg 3399 2024-10-05T16:07:01.153951 image/jpeg 2911879 2024-10-05T16:06:58.944001 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia