Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir by Georges Courteline
"Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir" by Georges Courteline is a novel published between 1891 and 1893. Subtitled "Tableaux-roman de la vie de bureau" (Scenes from Office Life), this satirical work offers a cutting portrait of bureaucratic life that became an instant success. The novel popularized the French term "rond-de-cuir"—literally "leather cushion"—as an enduring expression for office workers and bureaucrats. Its sharp observations of workplace culture proved so resonant that the work inspired multiple theatrical
and film adaptations throughout the twentieth century. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.html.images | 279 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.epub3.images | 2.9 MB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.epub.images | 2.9 MB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.epub.noimages | 226 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.kf8.images | 3.1 MB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.kindle.images | 3.1 MB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861.txt.utf-8 | 253 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74861/pg74861-h.zip | 2.8 MB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Courteline, Georges, 1858-1929 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Schwob, Marcel, 1867-1905 |
| Illustrator | Sem, 1863-1934 |
| Title | Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir |
| Original Publication | Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. |
| Note | fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messieurs_les_ronds-de-cuir |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Male white collar workers -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 74861 |
| Release Date | Dec 8, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 243 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |