Ten short French tales of humble life, from The Captain’s Vices and Two Clowns to The Substitute and The Sabots of Little Wolff. Coppée writes of tired workmen, old soldiers and poor children in Paris with tenderness and irony, and Brander Matthews’s introduction explains the French conte and Coppée’s mastery of it.
A fine sampler of a poet-storyteller much loved in his day, for readers of Maupassant and Daudet. Download the free EPUB.