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100 1 _aMontfort, Eugène,
_d1877-1936
245 1 3 _aLe chalet dans la montagne
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-31
505 0 _aLe chalet dans la montagne -- Voyage à Florence -- Chausey -- Sensations anglaises -- Nuits d'Espagne.
508 _aVéronique Le Bris, Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Le chalet dans la montagne : voyages vrais et imaginaires" by Eugène Montfort is a collection of travel writing and short stories written in the early 20th century. Blending real Alpine journeys with imagined episodes, it dwells on sublime landscapes, solitude, and the psychology of desire. In the titular tale, a young traveler encounters a married woman at a mountain hospice, and a delicate, ethically fraught attraction unfolds amid storms, glaciers, and crowded inn-terraces. The opening of this volume follows a twenty-year-old traveler ascending to the Col du Lautaret, where a tempest drives tourists into an overfull hospice and he becomes fascinated by a graceful young woman. Discovering their rooms connect, he watches, then makes contact: flowers offered, murmured talk, and a confession that she is married, lonely, and awaiting her husband. A teasing dawn exchange through the door leads to an afternoon walk; he follows her into the high meadows, they gather edelweiss, he “reads” her palm, and innocent intimacies (like drinking from his cupped hands) coexist with restrained longing. As evening falls, she avoids a rendezvous; later, trusting his promise to be “wise,” she admits him to her room. He misreads the situation, makes a sudden advance, she resists, and he withdraws in shame. The section ends with his anguished self-reproach and recognition of her candor and purity, set against the vast, luminous mountain solitude. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Eugène Fasquelle, 1905
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754064962412
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76203
999 _c116928
_d116928