Les amours du temps passé by Charles Monselet
"Les amours du temps passé" by Charles Monselet is a fictional work written in the late 19th century. The story follows the character M. le chevalier de Pimprenelle, who is portrayed as a dandy enamored with fashionable society and the affairs of love, showcasing a humorous exploration of romantic entanglements and social pretensions. The opening of the work introduces M. le chevalier de Pimprenelle as he awakens after a night of indulgence,illustrating his flamboyant personality through his interactions with his valet, La Brie. As Pimprenelle bemoans the state of his attire from the previous evening, he decides to reinvent himself as a "petit-maître," embodying the whimsical and fashionable man of his time. The dialogue between him and La Brie reveals Pimprenelle's aspirations for grandeur and extravagance, setting the stage for his social interactions and romantic pursuits, including plans to impress the dancer Tonton at the opera, while also hinting at a more complex web of relationships to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Monselet, Charles, 1825-1888 |
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| Title | Les amours du temps passé |
| Note | Reading ease score: 68.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Note | Also published under title: Les galanteries du XVIIIe siècle (1862). |
| Contents | Le poulet -- Les petits jeux -- Les passe-temps de M. de La Popelinière -- Bibliothèque galante -- Desforges -- Cazotte -- Les diamants du Garde-meuble. |
| Credits | Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, French |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 61318 |
| Release Date | Feb 5, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 130 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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