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100 1 _aRenaud, Jean Joseph,
_d1873-1953
245 1 3 _aLe clavecin hanté
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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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-13
505 0 _aLe clavecin hanté -- L'élixir de longue vie -- Les yeux -- En euphorie -- La fouille -- Les évadés -- La fenêtre barrée -- Les factures -- Au Pont du Hibou -- Le duel au cigare -- L'adieu -- L'orteil en moins -- L'émotion de Mauricia -- La chose d'épouvante -- La corde blonde.
508 _aLaurent 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 _aLe clavecin hanté by Jean Joseph Renaud is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The pieces blend the fantastic, psychological, and criminal, staging clever hoaxes, scientific thought experiments, and quiet tragedies where belief and reality blur. Among the varied protagonists are a crafty village guide, a brilliant but doomed biologist, a reader transfixed by a serpent’s “gaze,” and lovers and friends trapped by honor and appearances. The opening of the collection spans several sharply etched tales: in wartime Picardy, the strabismic guide Laquinte lures occupying Bavarian officers to a “haunted” harpsichord, drugs their feast, fakes Gluck’s ghost with a music box and costume, and enables a French night assault. A second story is the confession of biologist Athanase Gille, who perfects a rejuvenation serum, restores three elders to youth, but learns they keep the disenchanted mind of age; he destroys his formula and kills himself. Next, Harker Brayton, staying in a house full of reptiles, dies under the spell of what he thinks is a living snake—later revealed to be a stuffed specimen with brass-nailed eyes. In a tender vignette, a physician comforts his wife’s dying first love by telling him she never ceased to love him—a solace that she, moved, admits was true. Finally, at a banker’s dinner a massive diamond vanishes during a brief blackout; when a search is demanded, Neville refuses to be frisked to shield the hostess’s secret, and a detective later catches her trying to sell the stone—the excerpt breaking off at their tense confrontation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Pierre Lafitte, 1920
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnu8es
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78439
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