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 Project Gutenberg 2025-06-09 Public domain in the USA. 328 Mendès, Catulle 1841 1909 Mendes, Catulle Mendès, Catulles Jupe courte Deuxième édition $aParis :$bVictor-Havard, $c1885. Le parfum volé -- Le raccommodeur de cruches -- La sonnette -- Inconvénient de la perfection -- Le cheveu -- Les cigarettes -- La botte de paille -- Les bras nus de la servante -- Les trois bonnes fortunes -- Le revolver de Rosette -- L'un n'empêche pas l'autre -- Le troisième oreiller -- La preuve -- Le rêve de Lila -- M. et madame Jacquelin -- La voix de jadis -- Le Clavecin -- Le seul amant -- Les raisons de Colette -- Le martyre de Valentin -- La vision -- Le soir du retour -- Sur les bords du Léthé. Laurent Vogel, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Jupe courte" by Catulle Mendès is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. It playfully satirizes Parisian manners, desire, jealousy, and shifting notions of modesty through witty, risqué contes with ironic twists. Expect elegant coquettes, blasé dandies, devoted friends, and ingenuous brides caught in audacious situations that probe the gap between appearances and appetites. The opening of the collection begins with a mischievous preface predicting a fashion revolution—bared bodies and veiled faces—as a metaphor for changing modesty. The first tales follow: a lover steals a rival’s intimate scent to win back her man, only to drive him back to the rival; a famed “repairer of jugs” (a fable on virginity) is confronted with a bride’s unbreakable vessel he himself once “fixed”; two inseparable friends link their boudoirs with an electric bell to synchronize their marital ecstasies, which leads one to yield disastrously during a daytime intrusion; a flawless beauty laments that her very perfection proves a handicap in love; a boastful cynic’s infallible jealousy trap is undone by a telltale blond hair; a Parisienne who rates lovers by the cigarettes she smokes afterward finds true stamina with a rustic; and a lady lowered from a hayloft disguised as a straw bundle is abducted by a farmhand who weighs her fate. The section closes by launching a new story in which a narrator posits that desire can transmit silently from one person to another, just as he begins a tale of his innocent young wife. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96026659 20231202060645mends 1885 FR Reading ease score: 74.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr Short stories, French French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Humour Category: French Literature Category: Sexuality & Erotica 274128 2025-09-30T06:59:17.918784 text/html 249393 2025-06-09T08:35:21 text/html 181534 2025-09-30T06:59:21.740760 application/epub+zip 178560 2025-09-30T06:59:18.522744 application/epub+zip 178560 2025-09-30T06:59:18.186789 application/epub+zip 243453 2025-09-30T06:59:24.506702 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 212100 2025-09-30T06:59:21.433769 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243784 2025-09-30T06:59:17.537732 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 223915 2025-06-09T08:35:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17817 2025-09-30T06:59:24.642718 application/rdf+xml 10237 2025-09-30T06:59:18.295838 image/jpeg 2366 2025-09-30T06:59:18.244754 image/jpeg 132314 2025-09-30T06:59:17.944755 application/octet-stream application/zip fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia