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Title: Artists' Wives
Author: Alphonse Daudet
Illustrator: De Bieler, Myrbach; and Rossi
Translator: Laura Ensor
Release Date: September 5, 2007 [EBook #22522]
Language: English
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ARTISTS' WIVESBy Alphonse Daudet
Translated by Laura Ensor
Illustrated by De Bieler, Myrbach; And Rossi
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TitlepageContents
PROLOGUE.
MADAME HEURTEBISE.
THE CREDO OF LOVE.
THE TRANSTEVERINA.
A COUPLE OF SINGERS.
A MISUNDERSTANDING
ASSAULT WITH VIOLENCE.
BOHEMIA AT HOME.
FRAGMENT OF A WOMAN'S LETTER
A GREAT MAN'S WIDOW
THE DECEIVER.
THE COMTESSE IRMA.
THE CONFIDENCES OF AN
ACADEMIC COAT.
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Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were
talking together one evening after dinner.
It was the hour of confidences and effusion. The lamp burned softly beneath its shade, limiting its circle of light to
the intimacy of the conversation, leaving scarcely distinct the capricious luxury of the vast walls, cumbered with
canvases, hangings, panoplies, surmounted by a glass roof through which the sombre blue shades of the ...