02495cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000480011324500250016126400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033650000820037250000310045450800180048552014980050353400700200165300480207185600430211999900190216277499UtSlPG20260610134809.0mcr n260607r20251919utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aBarbey d'Aurevilly, J.q(Jules),d1808-188910aPunainen akkunaverho 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTranslation of Le rideau cramoisi, from the story collection Les diaboliques.  aRelease date is 2025-12-18  aTuula Temonen  a"Punainen akkunaverho" by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly is a short story written in the late 19th century. It presents a decadent, confessional tale of clandestine passion framed by a chance night journey, as the Vicomte de Brassard recalls a youthful affair with his hosts’ enigmatic daughter, Albertine, under the ominous sign of a red-curtained window. The mood blends military bravado with fatalistic desire and moral unease.

The opening of the story follows an unnamed narrator traveling by post coach through western France, sharing a compartment with the striking Vicomte de Brassard, a famed royalist officer known for courage, insubordination, and prodigious drinking. Passing through a dark, sleeping town, a single lit window with red curtains startles Brassard and draws from him a promise to tell what it means. Before his confession, the narrator sketches Brassard’s past: his glory and wounds from the July days, his charisma with troops, and his flamboyant excesses. Brassard then begins his tale of being a 17-year-old sub-lieutenant billeted with a respectable elderly couple in a dead, provincial town, where their newly returned daughter, Albertine—cool, poised, and unreadable—slowly unsettles him. The opening culminates in a charged dinner scene where, without a word and in full view of her unsuspecting parents, Albertine secretly seizes his hand and presses his leg under the table, igniting the forbidden story to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cPori: Otto Andersinin Kustannusliike, 1919  aFrench fiction -- Translations into Finnish40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77499  c118219d118219