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L'une des plus célèbre fable de Jean de la Fontaine 

Boule de suif is a masterpiece ," wrote Gustave Flaubert . Although this is not the first story by Guy de Maupassant, this is the story that has emerged as a master.  

1871. France is at war against Prussia. Lieutenant Lare , who already has several achievements to his credit since the beginning of the conflict, receives a mission to go to the aid of a threatened French troops with annihilation . It starts at night with three hundred men . When he arrives near...

Passing a ruined castle , the narrator is telling the story of the Wild family who lived there. The father, a poacher , had been killed by the police . Soon after, the son went to war and did not give more news. One day the town hall square in the mother Wild four Prussian soldiers of the occupation...

There was once on a time a hermit who lived in a forest at the foot of a mountain, and passed his time in prayer and good works, and every evening he carried, to the glory of God, two pails of water up the mountain...

You ask what is the real meaning of sin. In the sense in which the word is ordinarily employed, at least by Christian preachers.. -Charles Webster Leadbeater  was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J....

It is said that originally each caste had its distinctive colour... -Charles Webster Leadbeater  was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally...

Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome. His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten...

A King's son once had a great desire to travel through the world, so he started off, taking no one with him but one trusty servant. One day he came to a great forest, and as evening drew on he could find no shelter, and could not think where to spend the night....

Once upon a time there lived a princess who was so beautiful and so good that everybody loved her. Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it...

A long time ago a little town made up of a collection of low huts stood in a tiny green valley at the foot of a cliff. Of course the people had taken great care to build their houses out of reach of the highest tide which might be driven on shore by a west wind, but on the very edge of...

  There was once a king and a queen who had three wonderfully beautiful daughters, and their one thought, from morning till night, was how they could make the girls happy. One day the princesses said to the king, ‘Dear father, we want so much to have a picnic, and...

Every year, a king's apple tree is robbed of one golden apple during the night. He sets his sons to watch, and though the first two fall asleep, the youngest stays awake and sees that the thief is a golden bird. He tries to shoot it, but only knocks a feather off...

Once upon a time there lived an old man who had only one son, whom he loved dearly; but they were very poor, and often had scarcely enough to eat...