Torsade Literary Space Frédéric Boutet: Berthe (complete)
Frédéric Boutet Tales Berthe (complete) He closed the store in haste and ran onto the rue de Rivoli, towards the boulevard de Sébastopol. She might be waiting. Before turning at the corner, he stopped a minute, a habit of his, before […]
Frédéric Boutet: The Bargain (complete)
Frédéric Boutet Tales The Bargain (complete) On the fifth floor, at an old, forbidding door that made her wish only to leave, rang a young visitor, frail in her worn dress, her black hat…her heart beating. “Is he there? I want to speak to […]
Frédéric Boutet: Complicity (complete)
Frédéric Boutet Tales Complicity (complete) Having made a tour of two large department stores…and buying none of what tempted her; then of the elegant streets, where she felt herself still less elegant than on the modest ones, Germaine Leprez hesitated at the threshold of a […]
Frédéric Boutet: The Balance (complete)
Frédéric Boutet Tales The Balance (complete) Lunch finished, M. Buchêne was back to business, per custom smoking his tranquil cigar while in discussion with Mme Buchêne. This intimate hour in the middle of their day had been a delight to them since the start […]
Frédéric Boutet: Hippolyte (complete)
Frédéric Boutet Tales Hippolyte (complete) After dinner, they passed into the smoking room. It was still light outside. Through windows that opened onto densest parkland, entered a fresh evening smell. Little Mme Livoy, determinedly poetic (as suited her befogged demeanor), sighed that the […]
Frédéric Boutet: A Playboy’s Scandal (complete)
Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails A Playboy’s Scandal (complete) It was on a spring evening at a casino, in a spa of the Midi with thermal baths, very chic. In the shadows that favored the garden in winter, the Chevalier Hector Montelli leaned his black moustache […]
Frédéric Boutet: The Amateur (conclusion)
Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails The Amateur (conclusion) “But I tell you I’m not a thief!” moaned Marcel. “Oh! Enough of jokes,” interrupted the jeweler wearily. “Your story! Isn’t it plain? Caught with its hand in the bag…why the dear […]
Frédéric Boutet: The Amateur (part one)
Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails The Amateur (part one) Marcel Chambrun returned from an evening party at around two a.m. In the comfortable little townhouse he shared with his mother, he made his noiseless way, taking care not to wake […]
Frédéric Boutet: An Investigation (complete)
Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails An Investigation (complete) “Denise! What a nice surprise! You’ve come to spend the afternoon with me? As you see, I have been stitching virtuously… Heavens, what is it?” Yvonne Vertel, who, to welcome Denise Cartier […]
Frédéric Boutet: A Reputation (conclusion)
Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails A Reputation (conclusion) Better even than his impudent visitor, he knew the effect such a revelation would produce, and the disrepute, unjust but inevitable, it would reflect on himself. He thought of his friends and his enemies, of […]