A very French Christmas : the greatest French holiday stories of all time.

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This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flick...

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Christmas stories

Christmas stories, French

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Christmas fiction

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Very Christmas series

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ISBN:

9781939931504

Description:

128 pages ; 27 cm

Contents:

The gift / Jean-Philippe Blondel
St. Anthony and his pig / Paul Arène
The Louis d'Or / François Coppée
Christmas in Algiers / Anatole le Braz
the wooden shoes of Little Wolff / François Coppée
Christmas eve / Guy de Maupassant
Christmas at the boarding school / Dominique Fabre
Salvette and Bernadou ; A Christmas miracle in the Marais / Alphonse Daudet
A miracle / Guy de Maupassant
I take my supper with my wife / Antoine Gustave Droz
The lost child / François Coppée
The juggler of Notre Dame / Anatole France
Noël / Irène Némirovsky

LCCN:

2017941851

Control Number:

3242072

Other Authors:

Arène, Paul, 1843-1896, author
Blondel, Jean-Philippe, 1964- author
Coppée, François, 1842-1908, author
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897, author
Droz, Antoine Gustave, author
Fabre, Dominique, author
France, Anatole, 1844-1924, author
Le Braz, Anatole, 1859-1926, author
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, author
Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942, author

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