PARISIAN POINTS of VIEW (Annotated)

Download or read book PARISIAN POINTS of VIEW (Annotated) written by Ludovic HALÉVY and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most American readers of fiction I fancy that M. Ludovic Halévy is known chiefly, if not solely, as the author of that most charming of modern French novels, The Abbé Constantin. Some of these readers may have disliked this or that novel of M. Zola's because of its bad moral, and this or that novel of M. Ohnet's because of its bad taste, and all of them were delighted to discover in M. Halévy's interesting and artistic work a story written by a French gentleman for young ladies. Here and there a scoffer might sneer at the tale of the old French priest and the young women from Canada as innocuous and saccharine;