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Crainquebille is a novella by Anatole France, first published in 1903. The story centers around Jules Crainquebille, an elderly vegetable peddler in Paris who becomes entangled in the bureaucratic and judicial systems after a misunderstanding with the police.

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Extrait: La majest de la justice r side tout enti re dans chaque sentence rendue par le juge au nom du peuple souverain. J r me Crainquebille, marchand ambulant, connut combien la loi est auguste, quand il fut traduit en police correctionnelle pour outrage un agent de la force... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

"L'Affaire Crainquebille" par Anatole France. Anatole France ?tait un ?crivain fran?ais (1844-1924).

L'affaire Crainquebille, d'Anatole France, est une esp?ce de fabliau au service de la critique d'une institution judiciaire imb?cile qui, ? force d'incompr?hension et d'injustices, m?ne les pauvres gens au crime. L'histoire est celle d'un marchand des quatre-saison emprisonn?... Read Full Overview

Crainquebille is a novella by Anatole France, first published in 1903. The story centers around Jules Crainquebille, an elderly vegetable peddler in Paris who becomes entangled in the bureaucratic and judicial systems after a misunderstanding with the police.

The plot... Read Full Overview

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality... Read Full Overview