Tag: Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Mademoiselle de Doucine’s New Year’s Present

By Oliver Raven on July 24, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This delightful short tale gave me a few questions to ponder, never having given anyone a New Year present in all my life. Have I been an unknowingly awful and stingy miser? Heaven forbid, will I have to get enlightenment from, well if not a Capuchin monk, because […]

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: The Miracle of the Magpie

By Oliver Raven on May 1, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

While the previous chapter was about boasting, this one, ‘The Miracle of the Magpie’, which plays in the town of Le Puy-en-Velay in the beautiful Auvergne district of France, seems to be all about mocking. Mocking the beliefs of people “elbowing their way” to the place where they […]

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Tag: Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: Mademoiselle de Doucine’s New Year’s Present

Anatole France’s Merrie Tales: The Miracle of the Magpie