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Anatole France. The Queen Pedauque
The Queen Pedauque
Table of Contents
Introduction By James Branch Cabell
INTRODUCTION
THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE
CHAPTER I
Why I recount the singular Occurrences of my Life
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
The Story of the Abbé’s Life
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
Arrival at the Castle of M. d’Asterac and Interview with the Cabalist
CHAPTER VII
Dinner and Thoughts on Food
CHAPTER VIII
The Library and its Contents
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
The Advent of Spring and its Effects—We visit Mosaïde
CHAPTER XII
I take a Walk and visit Mademoiselle Catherine
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
Visit to Mademoiselle Catherine—The Row in the Street and my Dismissal
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
Illness of M. Jerome Coignard
CHAPTER XXI
Death of M. Jérôme Coignard
CHAPTER XXII
Funeral and Epitaph
CHAPTER XXIII
Farewell to Jahel-Dispersal of the Party
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
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Anatole France
Published by Good Press, 2022
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My father looked admiringly on me, and then he murmured into the priest’s ear that I learned anything I wanted to know with a native and natural facility.
“Wherefore,” replied the priest, “you must form him to become a man of letters, which to be, is one of the honours of mankind, the consolation of human life and a remedy against all evils, actually against those of love, as it is affirmed by the poet Theocritus.”
