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L'Abbe Constantin is a comedy in three acts, taking place against the background of the Franco-Prussian War. The Abbe is curate of a small church supported by the income of a nearby estate. The estate has passed into the hands of an American owner, whom the Abbe presumes will be Protestant and uninclined to support his church.
With a step still valiant and firm, an old priest walked along the dusty road in the full rays of a brilliant sun. For more than thirty years the Abbe Constantin had been the Cure of the little village which slept there in plain, on the banks of a slender stream called La Lizotte. This work contains his enchanting tale.
L' Abbe Constantin - Complete by Ludovic Halevy,Thomas Logie Pdf
To most American readers of fiction I fancy that M. Ludovic Halévy is known chiefly, if not solely, as the author of that most charming of modern French novels, The Abbé Constantin. Some of these readers may have disliked this or that novel of M. Zola's because of its bad moral, and this or that novel of M. Ohnet's because of its bad taste, and all of them were delighted to discover in M. Halévy's interesting and artistic work a story written by a French gentleman for young ladies. Here and there a scoffer might sneer at the tale of the old French priest and the young women from Canada as innocuous and saccharine; but the story of the good Abbé Constantin and of his nephew, and of the girl the nephew loved in spite of her American millions—this story had the rare good fortune of pleasing at once the broad public of indiscriminate readers of fiction and the narrower circle of real lovers of literature. Artificial the atmosphere of the tale might be, but it was with an artifice at once delicate and delicious; and the tale itself won its way into the hearts of the women of America as it had into the hearts of the women of France.
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