Originally published in 1923, this book contains the French text of seven short stories by seven influential French authors: Nodier, Balzac, Vigny, Gautier, Flaubert, Mérimée and Maupassant. The stories reflect the changing schools of fiction in vogue in France from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and each story is prefaced with a short biographical note on the author. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature.