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Spring fever draws a young man toward a stranger on the Seine, until another passenger offers an urgent warning about love.
An aging Parisian couple's return to the woods of their courtship ends with an embarrassed appearance before the village mayor.
A confirmed skeptic of love recalls the moonlit boat ride that briefly unsettled all his carefully reasoned certainty.
After a murdered child is found in a village wood, the mayor leads a search that finds no culprit but cannot quiet the countryside.
A hunter in a frozen marsh witnesses a wild bird's devotion and finds his sport transformed by the sight.
A jealous man insists he is sane while recounting the obsession that made him turn against his lover and her horse.
A provincial town crowns its shyest young man as a model of virtue, then watches its solemn civic experiment take an unruly turn.
A kindhearted coachman adopts an unwanted dog, but her devotion and unruly habits bring him to an impossible choice.
A Norman farmer’s sudden passion survives rejection until an unexpected crisis puts old loyalties to the test.
A wandering painter befriends an eccentric Englishwoman on the Normandy coast and discovers the feeling beneath her reserve.
A stagecoach full of villagers turns one man’s earache into a public medical emergency and a traveling comedy.
A timid husband’s devotion to his son is shaken by a charge that turns family love into an unbearable question.
In occupied Normandy, a mother awaiting news of her soldier son shares her isolated cottage with four courteous enemy troops.
Five penniless boating friends find their carefree life on the Seine transformed by the quick-witted young woman who takes the helm.
A forgotten spa diary records twenty-five days of treatments, flirtation, boredom, and selective moral philosophy.
A miserly Norman farmer resists his son's marriage, then finds his rigid household altered by love, loss, and the demands of survival.
A rural postman, primed by a grisly newspaper report, hears screams behind shuttered windows and races to stop a crime.
A hard Norman farmer faces a Prussian court-martial and calmly explains why enemy scouts have been vanishing.
A Paris office clerk explains how one disastrous Sunday cured him of the country—and of marriage.
A writer reflects on the attraction and menace of cats before recalling a night when one seemed to rule an old castle.
A poor clerk spends a rare bonus on a grand family outing and a hired horse meant to restore his aristocratic dignity.
A seasoned boatman anchors for a quiet smoke on the Seine, only to spend the night trapped in fog, silence, and mounting terror.
At a crowded riverside resort, a young man’s absolute devotion collides with a lover whose desires he cannot control or understand.
A thrifty Norman widow takes in a small dog, then discovers that protecting her property carries an unwelcome cost.
