Project Gutenberg 2012-08-12 Public domain in the USA. 126 Du Boisgobey, Fortuné 1821 1891 Boisgobey, Fortuné Du Du Boisgobey, Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Le billet rouge. English The Red Lottery Ticket Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Red Lottery Ticket" by Fortuné Du Boisgobey is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in Paris, focusing on two young men, George Caumont and Adhémar de Puymirol, who are aspiring to marry wealthy women to secure their futures. As the plot develops, themes of ambition, social status, and romantic entanglements are explored, all against the backdrop of Parisian society in the springtime. The opening of the book introduces George Caumont and Adhémar de Puymirol as they ride together in a cab across a famous Parisian bridge. Their light conversation reveals their ambitions, desire for wealth, and the constraints posed by their respective familial expectations. They soon encounter a mysterious event involving a bearded man who drops a pocket-book into their cab, setting in motion a series of discoveries that involve lottery tickets and letters from unknown correspondents—suggesting secrets and potential danger. As the two friends attend a lunch, the setup portrays them in a society ripe with intrigue, alluding to future developments that will test their ambitions and loyalties in the midst of wealth and deception. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40491/40491-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fiction Detective and mystery stories PQ Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels Category: French Literature 323157 2025-06-16T12:49:59.734815 text/html 321762 2012-08-12T13:07:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 205607 2025-06-16T12:50:04.315777 application/epub+zip 210045 2025-06-16T12:50:00.520735 application/epub+zip 179245 2025-06-16T12:50:00.124851 application/epub+zip 312855 2025-06-16T12:50:07.426824 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 297994 2025-06-16T12:50:03.959745 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 267352 2022-09-18T14:08:15.555289 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 309915 2023-09-17T14:34:57.776674 text/plain 16453 2025-06-16T12:50:07.577720 application/rdf+xml 20392 2025-06-16T12:50:00.220759 image/jpeg 3259 2025-06-16T12:50:00.174747 image/jpeg 204779 2025-06-16T12:49:59.771759 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 fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia