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Mont Oriol
by De Maupassant, Guy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good (-)
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Alfred A Knopf, 1925. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with very clean unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket clipped with sunning to spine, small tear to top of spine and nicks and creasing to upper edge. 257pp. Stories from French writer Guy de Maupassant. No 11 in this series of Guy de Maupassant's novels and tales. Undated. Very scarce with dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (-). 7 x 4.5 inches.
Synopsis
Les premiers baigneurs, les matineux deja sortis de leau, se promenaient a pas lents, deux par deux ou solitaires, sous les grands arbres, le long du ruisseau qui descend des gorges dEnval. Dautres arrivaient du village, et entraient dans letablissement dun air presse. Cetait un grand batiment dont le rez-de-chaussee demeurait reserve au traitement thermal, tandis que le premier etage servait de casino, cafe et salle de billard. Depuis que le docteur Bonnefille avait decouvert dans le fond dEnval la grande source, baptisee par lui source Bonnefille, quelques proprietaires du pays et des environs, speculateurs timides, setaient decides a construire au milieu de ce superbe vallon dAuvergne, sauvage et gai pourtant, plante de noyers et de chataigniers geants, une vaste maison a tous usages, servant egalement pour la guerison et pour le plaisir, ou lon vendait, en bas, de leau minerale, des douches et des bains, en haut, des bocks, des liqueurs et de la musique. On avait enclos une partie du ravin, le long du ruisseau, pour constituer le parc indispensable a toute ville deaux ; on avait trace trois allees, une presque droite et deux en festons ; on avait fait jaillir au bout de la premiere une source artificielle detachee de la source principale et qui bouillonnait dans une grande cuvette de ciment, abritee par un toit de paille, sous la garde dune femme impassible que tout le monde appelait familiere¬ment Marie. Cette calme Auvergnate, coiffee dun petit bonnet toujours bien blanc, et presque entierement couverte par un large tablier toujours bien propre qui cachait sa robe de service, se levait avec lenteur des quelle apercevait dans le chemin un baigneur sen venant vers elle. Layant reconnu elle choisissait son verre dans une petite armoire mobile et vitree, puis elle lemplissait doucement au moyen dune ecuelle de zinc emmanchee au bout dun baton.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020617
- Title
- Mont Oriol
- Author
- De Maupassant, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good (-)
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 7 x 4.5 inches
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