Alexandre Dumas
My Pets
Paperback
(Forgotten Books June 4, 2015)
Excerpt from My Pets
The Prodigal Returns; Alexis Finds Scope For His Military Proclivities At Last; Maquet Buys A Second Husband For Mademoiselle Desgarcins; Mademoiselle Desgarcins And The Soda-Water Bottle; Infamous Conduct Of Potich, The "Last Of The Laidmanoirs," Mademoiselle Desgarcins, And Mysouff II; A Wager; Trial And Condemnation Of Mysouff; Don Rusconi; In Which Mouton Betrays His Odious Character; The Greatest Autograph-Hunter In Paris; My First Hare; Alfred And Médor; How Alfred Was Obliged To Return To Compiègne In Highland Costume; How I Brought Back From Constantine A Vulture Which Cost Me Forty Thousand Francs - And The Government Ten Thousand; How Pritchard Began To Resemble The Maréchal De Saxe, To Whom Mars Had Left Nothing But A Loving Heart; Which Deals With My Début As An Orator In The Department Of The Yonne, And Pritchard's Début In The Same Department As A Poacher; An Impeccable Magistrate; Discussing The Erudite Question: Was It The Toad Taught The Doctors To Be Accoucheurs, Or The Doctors Taught The Toads?; In Which Pritchard Has The Calamity To Encounter A Canon Fulbert Without Having Met A Héloïse
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- ISBN
- 1330247582 / 9781330247587
- Pages
- 396
- Weight
- 18.72 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.98 x 0.82
in.