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100 1 _aTheuriet, André,
_d1833-1907
245 1 0 _aContes tendres
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-21
505 0 _aVieux vagabond -- Claudine -- Persévérance d'amour -- A ma fenêtre -- Ames de lycéens -- Un fils de veuve -- Premier rendez-vous -- La chasuble -- Une joueuse -- La maison du bord de l'eau -- Pensées d'automne -- La Saint-Sylvestre -- Pluie en montagne -- Théâtre d'amateurs -- Le conte des Rois Mages -- Le marchand de cresson -- Marcoussis -- Frontière d'Italie -- Nouvelle neige et vieux souvenirs -- Morale en action -- La petite Norine -- Pâques-Fleuries -- Le moine quêteur -- Montreurs d'ours -- Dans l'Engadine.
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aContes tendres by André Theuriet is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The pieces offer gentle, closely observed portraits of ordinary French lives at moments of hardship, love, memory, and moral testing. Recurring figures include aging workers, dreamy students, modest provincials, and women navigating affection and propriety, all sketched with sympathy and quiet irony. The opening of the collection presents a series of vignettes: in the Paris outskirts, an old gardener-turned-tramp is offered kindness and later helped into shelter, leaving his leaking hut in tears; two lost botanizers in Savoie are welcomed by the lively Claudine, whose playful warmth ends with a stinging slap for an overbold guest, before she sends them off with real rhododendrons; a painter who rose and fell in fame tenderly reunites with his Breton first love, refuses her financial help, and, crushed by ruin, takes his life; across from a dawn window, a young teacher-candidate readies for exams, works, fails, weeps, counts her last coins, and departs; watching boarders return to Lakanal, the narrator recalls adolescent desire and a foiled tryst with a circus rider that earned him punishment; a war widow’s vigil turns poignant when she feeds a passing mobile who silently realizes her missing son was likely killed; a cautious married woman edges toward an affair, but a storm and a ride in a funeral van feel like an omen that halts it; and finally, a friend begins the tale of a sumptuous door curtain once fashioned from a chasuble bought in Valencia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Ernest Flammarion, 1895
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k939929x
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77748
999 _c118468
_d118468