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100 1 _aLe Braz, Anatole,
_d1859-1926
245 1 0 _aAmes d'Occident
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
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-04
505 0 _aPéché d'innocent -- L'incendie du Vendredi Saint -- Le sonneur de Garlan -- La barrique d'Or -- Le roman de Laurik Cosquêr -- Le trésor de Noël -- Chez le dernier des Nial Mor.
508 _alaurent Vogel and www.ebooksgratuits.com (This book was produced from images made available by the Internet Archive.)
520 _a"Ames d'Occident" by Anatole Le Braz is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. Set in rural Brittany, it portrays village life, belief, and custom with a blend of humor, tenderness, and folkloric intensity. The opening tales introduce an eccentric “innocent” named Ervoanic Prigent and, later, a proud young sabot-maker, a stern forest guard, and a devoted mayor, framing intimate human dramas against the sea- and forest-swept Breton landscape. The opening of this collection begins with a dedication and moves into “Péché d’Innocent,” where the guileless wanderer Ervoanic, famed for timing his visits to the best farmhouse meals, succumbs to one delectable temptation: he steals the legendary andouille from a presbytery kitchen and enjoys it alone in the countryside, his single “sin” of gourmandise. The next story, “L’Incendie du Vendredi Saint,” follows a narrator arriving to visit his friend, a village mayor, on Good Friday, just as a forest fire breaks out. With the striking sabot-maker Jozon Skan, they trace the blaze to a long-suppressed wrong marked on a hêtre: years earlier, the local guard had cruelly bound a starving boy to an anthill on Good Friday. The boy survived, grew into Skan, and has answered that outrage with yearly fires to force the truth into the open. The episode closes with reconciliation and restitution: the mayor brokers Skan’s marriage to the guard’s daughter and drives the men back to fight the flames, leading to the guard’s disgrace being answered by the arsonist’s return to lawful protection of the woods. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Calmann-Lévy, 1911
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/amesdoccident00lebruoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78355
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