Project Gutenberg 2019-06-01 Public domain in the USA. 412 Renard, Maurice 1875 1939 23016462 Le docteur Lerne, sous-Dieu. English New Bodies for Old Produced by Tim Lindell. David E. Brown, 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.) "New Bodies for Old" by Maurice Renard is an allegorical novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative centers around a character named Nicolas Vermont who receives an unusual invitation from his Uncle Lerne, urging him to visit his estate at Fonval under the peculiar instruction to "come alone and give notice." As Nicolas journeys to Fonval, he finds himself embroiled in a web of scientific experimentation and eerie occurrences, hinting at mysterious and perhaps morally ambiguous practices. The opening of the novel introduces Nicolas's arrival at Fonval after receiving an odd letter from his uncle. He is met with an unwelcoming and perplexing environment as he navigates through an unnervingly labyrinthine estate. Throughout his journey, his childhood memories and feelings of nostalgia clash with the bizarre atmosphere and unsettling directives from his uncle. The reader is drawn into a world where the natural laws of life are being toyed with, foreshadowing deeper explorations into themes of nature, manipulation, and possibly the ethics of scientific discovery as hinted by Nicolas's encounter with a strange and chaotic mix of flora and fauna in his uncle's conservatory. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 72.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction, French -- Translations into English PQ Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels Category: French Literature 430076 2025-06-23T15:53:00.557773 text/html 444659 2019-06-01T07:04:26 text/html 330510 2025-06-23T15:53:07.902740 application/epub+zip 327463 2025-06-23T15:53:01.695742 application/epub+zip 266218 2025-06-23T15:53:01.119786 application/epub+zip 444569 2025-06-23T15:53:12.500746 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 403246 2025-06-23T15:53:07.276725 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 342703 2022-09-27T01:37:31.433113 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 390481 2025-06-23T15:52:59.524771 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 390735 2019-06-01T07:04:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19052 2025-06-23T15:53:12.660711 application/rdf+xml 17673 2025-06-23T15:53:01.243719 image/jpeg 2563 2025-06-23T15:53:01.179750 image/jpeg 155269 2019-06-01T07:04:26 application/octet-stream application/zip 285180 2019-06-01T07:04:26 application/octet-stream application/zip 313382 2025-06-23T15:53:00.603869 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