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La Vénus d'Ille
Prosper Mérimée · 1837
Original text in French. In English: The Venus of Ille.
In a town in Roussillon, an ancient statue dug out of the ground and a ring slipped onto its finger.
Short stories · about 10 000 words · about 45 min of reading
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Prosper Mérimée († 1870): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 16240). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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