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Table of Contents:

• Nightmare / Guy de Maupassant
• The green monster / Gérard de Nerval
• The last Napoleon / Honoré de Balzac
• Squares / Émile Zola
• A Parisian adventure / Guy de Maupassant
• Montmartre Cemetery and flora and fauna in Paris / Colette
• The Gare Saint-Lazare / Michel Butor
• The twentieth arrondissement / Léon-Paul Fargue
• In Notre-Dame / Julien Green
• Family portrait / Maryse Condé
• The runaway / Georges Perec
• The house in the place des Fêtes / Roger Grenier
• The joyful death of Fassola / Andrée Chedid
• The man with the collecting-box / Didier Daenickx
• Rue de Commerce / Jacques Réda
• Plan of occupancy / Jean Echenoz
• Iéna / Annie Saumont
• The adventure / Cyrille Fleischman
• What goes on in Saint-Germain / Anna Gavalda
• Manuscript found at Saint-Germain-des-Prés / Frédéric Beigbeder

• Blind experiment / Hugo Marsan
• Feeding the hungry / Vincent Ravalec.

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Contributors:

Constantine, Helen

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Translated from the French.

Subjects:

Short stories, French — Translations into English

Paris (France) — Fiction

Short stories, French

France — Paris

Genres:

Translations

Fiction

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-243).

Physical Description:

ix, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

PQ1278 .P37 2004

ISBNs:

0192805746 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

56653815