L' Veber, Pierre 1869-1942 creator Veber, Jean 1864-1928 text utu 2025 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "L'aventure" by Pierre Veber is an epistolary novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Yvonne, a witty Parisian comtesse bored by domestic routine, as she helps her friend Germaine navigate a risky divorce while flirting with the idea of “adventure” in the form of a brazen, exotic suitor who won’t let her alone. The tone is a sparkling comedy of manners set across salons, department stores, and Montmartre, balancing social satire, marital politics, and clandestine temptation. The opening of this novel is a chain of lively letters in which Yvonne, writing from the reading room of the Grands Magasins du Louvre after a quarrel with her husband Roger, vows to aid Germaine’s divorce by steering it away from a scandalous “flagrant délit,” working contacts with a judge and an avoué. In the store she is trailed by a jewel-laden stranger; teasing him by posing as an actress, she learns he is Ramon Garcia de La Vega, who pursues her from a near-rendezvous at the cabaret Bouis-Bouis to a chance seating beside her there, where he furtively caresses her gloved hand in the dark. While she builds a discreet mail route through a friend and keeps lobbying the courts (only to see her favorable judge promoted away), Ramon intercepts her one night near home; they walk to boulevard Pereire, sit on a bench, and he unveils his adventurous past (Franco-Brazilian, nomadic trader), declaring his love. Yvonne withholds her address, gives only her first name, and keeps him at arm’s length as they half-arrange a safer meeting at a quiet art exhibition; after wavering, she goes, and they stage a “chance” encounter in a shadowy vestibule, speaking low amid onlookers—her curiosity and caution evenly matched. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-11-08 Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) Originally published: Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1898 French fiction -- 19th century PQ Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1898 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15274771 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77192 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15274771 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77192 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134804.0 77192