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Frédéric Boutet: A Playboy’s Scandal (complete)

Posted by ractrose on 27 Feb 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

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)

Posted by ractrose on 13 Feb 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

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)

Posted by ractrose on 6 Feb 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

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)

Posted by ractrose on 30 Jan 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

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)

Posted by ractrose on 23 Jan 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

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 […]

Frédéric Boutet: A Reputation (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 16 Jan 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails A Reputation (part one) “Monsieur, a gentleman has come on the part of the Philanthropic Society of Paris.” “Well, let him in,” said M. Blestat. He folded his newspaper, shook his cigar ash into the fire, […]

Frédéric Boutet: Memory (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Jan 2020 in Fiction, Short Stories, Translation

Frédéric Boutet A Few Blackmails Memory (conclusion) And as to this word love, outside of conjugal duty, where was the sense of it? But it had come. To fall within this happiness, lasting now twenty years, this name: Melchior Bostelette. […]

Baron Haussmann’s story about George Sand (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Oct 2019 in Nonfiction, Translation

From Mémoires de baron Haussmann, 1890 (conclusion) I had taken care to forewarn the Lieutenant of the Gendarmerie, and upon our return to the Sous-Préfecture, we found him ready to leave with a brigade. The expedition was put in motion without delay, and in good order, thanks to the post-chaise […]

Baron Haussmann’s story about George Sand (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Oct 2019 in Nonfiction, Translation

From Mémoires de baron Haussmann, 1890 George Sand at Nérac Before I speak of what came next, I must tell a rather curious episode that arose during the last days of my life as a youth. I had been presented by M. le Marquis de Lusignan, […]