Carefully chosen collection provides both the French original and new line-by-line English translations — on facing pages — of 6 great 19th-century French short stories. Merim\u00e9e's Mateo Falcone, Sylvie by Nerval, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's H\u00e9rodias, L’attaque du moulin by Zola, and de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle. Introduction and Notes.