Project Gutenberg 2009-10-10 Public domain in the USA. 67 Renard, Jules 1864 1910 Renard, Pierre Jules Coquecigrues Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Coquecigrues" by Jules Renard is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The stories often reflect on themes of everyday life, human nature, and observations drawn from the ordinary events surrounding the characters, such as the interactions between an old man and soldiers or the peculiarities of family dynamics. Renard's writing combines a sense of humor with poignant reflections on the absurdities of life. At the start of "Coquecigrues," we are introduced to a whimsical old man preparing to host French soldiers, diligently ensuring he has everything ready—from fresh fish in the river to an abundance of food for them. His joyful anticipation is interrupted when he learns no soldiers are coming, prompting a series of humorous and revealing interactions with his wife and his attempt to connect with the soldiers he admires from afar. The opening sets a tone of both innocent excitement and subtle commentary on the nature of hospitality and human connection, inviting readers into Renard's richly observed world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Short stories, French PQ Text FR Nouvelles Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 251300 251309 2024-09-13T04:23:53.228796 2023-09-13T09:25:18.748876 text/html text/html 249115 2019-12-29T07:35:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 151959 2019-12-29T22:29:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 163791 2024-09-13T04:23:58.180768 application/epub+zip 165635 2024-09-13T04:23:53.914784 application/epub+zip 160584 2024-09-13T04:23:53.506802 application/epub+zip 272834 2024-09-13T04:24:01.349769 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 251569 2024-09-13T04:23:57.847773 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243321 2022-09-14T05:06:45.725315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 220881 220626 2024-09-13T04:23:52.392824 2023-09-13T09:25:17.935847 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 216087 2019-12-30T04:31:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 86180 2019-12-29T22:29:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18619 2024-09-13T04:24:01.486737 application/rdf+xml 12817 2024-09-13T04:23:53.676790 image/jpeg 2320 2024-09-13T04:23:53.551813 image/jpeg 152835 2024-09-13T04:23:53.255807 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