wonderfully good reading. It is extremely amusing. It is witty and subtle and often wise...Jules Renard jotted down neat retorts and clever phrases, epigrams, things seen, the sayings of people and the look of them, descriptions of scenery, effects of sunshine and shadow, everything, in short, that could be of use to him when he sat down to write for publication." The American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino based his 1994 work Red the Fiend on Renard's Poil de carotte. For a great part, the 2008 memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of by the English novelist Julian Barnes is a homage to Jules Renard. Renard is one of several popular philosophers whose quotations appear on the road signs of Project HIMANK in the Ladakh region of northern India. On one such sign in the Nubra Valley, he is quoted as saying, "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired". Works Novels Crime de village (1888) Sourires pincés (1890) L'Écornifleur (1892) La Lanterne sourde (1893) Coquecigrues (1893) Deux Fables sans morale (1893) Le Coureur de filles (1894) Histoires naturelles (1894) Poil de carotte (1894), text Le Vigneron dans sa vigne (1894) La Maîtresse (1896) Bucoliques (1898) Les Philippe (1907) Patrie (1907) Mots d'écrit (1908) Ragotte (1909) Nos Frères farouches (1909) Causeries (1910) L'Œil clair (1913) Les Cloportes (1919) Plays La Demande (1895) Le Plaisir de rompre (1897) Le Pain de ménage (1898) Poil de carotte (1900) Monsieur Vernet (1903) La Bigote (1909) Huit Jours à la campagne (1912) Non-fiction Journal, 1887–1910 (1925), text Writing lessons, published by Ringer (2008) Bibliophilia The Écornifleur (1892), original etchings by Jacques Boullaire, Les Bibliophiles de France, Paris (1955) Philippe (1907), original lithographs by André Minaux, Les Bibliophiles Franks, Paris (1958) Quotes It is not how old you are but how you are old. If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. Culture is what's left after you have forgotten everything. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it. If money does not make you happy; give it back. Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted. If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space