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. Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Sylvie by Nerval, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's Hérodias, L?attaque du moulin by Zola, and de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle. Introduction and Notes.