The learned, shabby Abbé Coignard, already known from At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque, holds forth in eighteenth-century Paris to his pupil Tournebroche. Ministers of state, the Mississippi Bubble, saints, armies and the law all fall before his sceptical, good-humoured talk, which France aimed squarely at the politics of his own day.
Anatole France at his most urbane and subversive, for readers who enjoy Voltairean irony. Download the free EPUB.