The Queen Pedauque
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About This Book
1893. With an introduction by William J. Locke. Anatole France (pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault), was a writer, critic, and one of the major figures of French literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque is his most celebrated novel; a vast tableau of life in 18th century France. The central figure of the novel, the Abbe Coignard, a complex, ironical and lovable character, reappears in Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard and The Well of Saint Claire.
Chapters (41)(click to expand)
- THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE
- Translated By Jos. A. V. Stritzko
- 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
- 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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