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    Putois 1907
    Putois 1907
    Putois 1907
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    Putois 1907

    By Anatole France

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Anatole France

    Anatole France (1844–1924) was one of the true greats of French letters and the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. The son of a bookseller, France was first published in 1869 and became famous with The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. Elected as a member of the French Academy in 1896, France proved to be an ideal literary representative of his homeland until his death.

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      Putois 1907 - Anatole France

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Putois, by Anatole France

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Putois

             1907

      Author: Anatole France

      Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23219]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUTOIS ***

      Produced by David Widger

      PUTOIS

      By Anatole France

      Translated by William Patten.

      Copyright, 1907, by P. F. Collier & Son.

      Dedicated to Georges Brandes

      Contents

      I

      This garden of our childhood, said Monsieur Bergeret, this garden that one could pace off in twenty steps, was for us a whole world, full of smiles and surprises.

      Lucien, do you recall Putois? asked Zoe, smiling as usual, the lips pressed, bending over her work.

      Do I recall Putois! Of all the faces I saw as a child that of Putois remains the clearest in my remembrance. All the features of his face and his character are fixed in my mind. He had a pointed cranium...

      A low forehead, added Mademoiselle Zoe.

      And the brother and sister recited alternately, in a monotonous voice, with an odd gravity, the points in a sort of description:

      A low forehead.

      Squinting eyes.

      A shifty glance.

      Crow's-feet at the temples.

      The cheek-bones sharp, red and shining.

      His ears had no rims to them.

      The features were devoid of all expression.

      His hands, which were never still, alone expressed his meaning.

      Thin, somewhat bent, feeble in appearance...

      In reality he was unusually strong.

      He easily bent a five-franc piece between the first finger and the thumb...

      Which was enormous.

      His voice was drawling...

      And his speech mild.

      Suddenly Monsieur Bergeret exclaimed: Zoe! we have forgotten 'Yellow hair and sparse beard.' Let us begin all over again.

      Pauline, who had listened with astonishment to this strange recital, asked her father and aunt how they had been able to learn by heart this bit of prose, and why they recited it as if it were a litany.

      Monsieur Bergeret gravely answered:

      "Pauline, what you have heard is a text, I may say a liturgy, used by the

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