Project Gutenberg 2006-03-16 Public domain in the USA. 272 Aldrich, Mildred 1853 1928 16023086 Told in a French Garden August, 1914 Introduction -- I. The Youngster's Story -- II. The Trained Nurse's Story -- III. The Critic's Story -- IV. The Doctor's Story V. The Sculptor's Story -- VI. The Divorcée's Story -- VII. The Lawyer's Story -- VIII. The Journalist's Story -- IX. The Violinist's Story -- X. Epilogue. Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Told in a French Garden" by Mildred Aldrich is a collection of interconnected stories written in the early 20th century. The narrative unfolds in a picturesque French garden, where a diverse gathering of friends reunites amid the backdrop of World War I. Each chapter invites a different character to share their unique tale, offering reflections on life, love, and the complexities of human experience during tumultuous times. At the start of the book, the author introduces a group of old acquaintances, each with their own backgrounds and experts in various fields, who find themselves spending the summer in a French garden in July 1914, just before the outbreak of war. As they bask in the beauty of their surroundings, the characters engage in conversations that reveal their personal lives and philosophies, setting the stage for an upcoming series of storytelling sessions. The reader is drawn into their dynamic as they recount tales from their pasts, all while the looming threat of war begins to cast a shadow over their idyllic summer retreat. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 80.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories PS Text World War I Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: French Literature 336148 2025-06-07T15:19:11.741903 text/html 342042 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 257179 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 337504 2025-06-07T15:19:19.757854 application/epub+zip 338179 2025-06-07T15:19:14.034887 application/epub+zip 202150 2025-06-07T15:19:12.627865 application/epub+zip 507635 2025-06-07T15:19:23.854845 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477167 2025-06-07T15:19:18.692917 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306301 2022-09-08T14:10:13.354859 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302930 2025-06-07T15:19:10.878907 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 302750 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 116955 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 302743 2006-03-16T15:25:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 116870 2006-03-16T15:25:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20892 2025-06-07T15:19:24.022818 application/rdf+xml 12506 2025-06-07T15:19:13.211883 image/jpeg 3647 2025-06-07T15:19:12.918864 image/jpeg 320141 2025-06-07T15:19:11.780883 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia