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100 1 _aBernard, Tristan,
_d1866-1947
245 1 2 _aL'homme à la moustache verte
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
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490 1 _aLes histoires drôles, groupées par Max et Alex Fischer ; 3
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-16
505 0 _aL'homme a la moustache verte -- Histoire de deux frères siamois -- Le talisman -- William -- La Tour de Babel -- Nicolas Glaive, ou les cahiers d'un candidat -- L'heureux chasseur -- Mise au point.
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aL'homme à la moustache verte by Tristan Bernard is a collection of humorous short stories written in the early 20th century. The book offers brisk, satirical sketches that poke fun at gullibility, vanity, petty fraud, romantic intrigue, and political maneuvering in everyday French life. The title piece follows angel-faced Alcée, who steals his own Christmas gifts to bet on a horse and blames an imaginary thief “with a green mustache.” Other tales skewer human foibles: Siamese twins whose differing morals lead to an awkward ménage with the wife; a supposed saint’s “talisman” that brings only gambling losses; a shameless moocher, William, who manipulates a lover for cash and prestige; the Tower of Babel retold as a contractor’s clever “force majeure” payday; the diary of candidate Nicolas Glaive, bled by an agent and crushed at the polls after a payoff to bury a fake scandal; a notoriously clumsy hunter who finally “bags” a hare while missing an enemy; and a playful correction of Genesis, where Eden is a zoo and the punishment is simply revoked admission. The result is a nimble, witty panorama of chance, self-deception, and social satire. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Ernest Flammarion, 1922
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
653 _aHumorous stories, French
830 0 _aLes histoires drôles, groupées par Max et Alex Fischer ; 3
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k80523n
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78223
999 _c118943
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