In a garret at 17 Rue Montignal, two young journalists cower as Madame Schmid the washerwoman pounds at the door for her money. Fontaine hides in the closet, while Marsac, all wit and invention, talks his way out with a tale of a king and a pair of bellows. His gift for improvised history soon carries him into a romance far above his station.
A witty Parisian comedy that won the New York Herald’s $3,000 novelette prize in 1895. Download the free EPUB.