colmiche

Updated: May 2, 2025

She protected Polish refugees, and one of them even declared that he wished to marry her. But they quarrelled, for one morning when she returned from the Angelus she found him in the kitchen coolly eating a dish which he had prepared for himself during her absence. After the Polish refugees, came Colmiche, an old man who was credited with having committed frightful misdeeds in '93.

Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Soul

She protected Polish refugees, and one of them even declared that he wished to marry her. But they quarrelled, for one morning when she returned from the Angelus she found him in the kitchen coolly eating a dish which he had prepared for himself during her absence. After the Polish refugees, came Colmiche, an old man who was credited with having committed frightful misdeeds in '93.

Gustave Flaubert - Three short works: The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul.