A Very French Christmas

The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

• Author(s): Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky,
• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Pages: 142
• ISBN_10: 193993155X
  ISBN_13: 9781939931559
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / World Literature / France / General , Fiction / Holidays , Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors) , Fiction / Literary ,

Description:... Joyeux Noël: “[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated.” ―Foreword Reviews

This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates Christmas à la française—delicious, intense and unexpected.