title: Memoirs of the Bastille: The Annotated Edition
author: Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet
description: A turbulent, brilliant figure from Old Regime France, Linguet was a lawyer - very popular at a time when that was frowned upon - whose colleagues drove him from the Bar and into journalism, where he founded Louis XVI's most popular newspaper. Which did not prevent him from getting thrown into the Bastille after he'd annoyed enough people. When he got out, he wrote this book, which helped stir popular indignation against the Bastille. His role in the run-up to the French Revolution did not protect him from its turmoil and he was ultimately guillotined.
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  # International Short Stories: French
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A PIECE OF BREAD
  
  
  THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
  
  
  THE AGE FOR LOVE
  
  
  MATEO FALCONE
  
  
  THE MIRROR
  
  
  MY NEPHEW JOSEPH
  
  
  A FOREST BETROTHAL
  
  
  ZADIG THE BABYLONIAN
  
  
  ABANDONED
  
  
  JEAN MONETTE
  
  
  SOLANGE
  
  
  THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX
  
  
  JEAN GOURDON'S FOUR DAYS
  
  
  BARON DE TRENCK
  
  
  THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA
  
  
  THE WOMAN AND THE CAT
  
  
  GIL BLAS AND DR. SANGRADO
  
  
  A FIGHT WITH A CANNON
  
  
  TONTON
  
  
  THE LAST LESSON
  
  
  CROISILLES
  
  
  THE VASE OF CLAY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES
  
  
  COMPILED BY FRANCIS J. REYNOLDS
  
  
  FRENCH
  
  
  1910
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### A PIECE OF BREAD
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  BY FRANCOIS COPPEE
  
  
    
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