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100	1		_aVeber, Pierre, _d1869-1942
245	1	2	_aL'aventure
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-08
508			_aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520			_a"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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: H. Simonis Empis, 1898
653			_aFrench fiction -- 19th century
700	1		_aVeber, Jean, _d1864-1928
856	4		_uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15274771
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77192
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