Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Numa Roumestan, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Added Rose and Ninette
IN this novel Alphonse Daudet has expressed some of his most cherished opinions regarding his own country people. To perfect it he exerted himself to the highest pitch of industry. As one of his studies in Parisian manners and customs, it will remain a document from which a period in French history can be reconstructed hereafter. Comedy and broad farce, tragedy and pathos, alternate in its chapters, while its dramatic possi bilities have been exploited for the stage.
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