Title: Les trois messes basses

Title: Les trois messes basses Title Record # 1466081
Author: Alphonse Daudet
Date: 1875-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French

Note: This Christmas tale first appeared in Daudet's collection Contes du lundi, 1875; it was later included in the definitive edition of Contes de mon moulin, published in 1879. It is therefore lacking in the original, 1869 edition of this collection.

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Year	Title
1875	Contes de Noël II: Les trois messes basses
1879	Les trois messes basses: Conte de Noël

Year	Language	Title
1892^ⓘTranslated by unknown hands	English	The Three Low Masses
1892^ⓘTranslated by Robert Routeledge; first appeared in The Fig and Idler, an Algerian Legend, and Other Stories.	English	The Three Low Masses: A Christmas Story
1925^ⓘTranslated by Farnsworth Wright	English	The Three Low Masses
1945^ⓘTranslation from the French : "Les trois messes basses", first published in Daudet's collection Contes du lundi, 1875; it was later included in the definitive edition of Contes de mon moulin, published in 1879. It is therefore lacking in the original, 1869 edition of this collection. Translated by an unknown hand. Original date of the translation unknown.	English	The Three Low Masses

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers	1892-00-00	ed. Antoinette Ogden	A. C. McClurg & Co.			x+ 265	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Devil Stories: An Anthology	1921-00-00	ed. Maximilian J. Rudwin	Alfred A. Knopf		$2.00^?$: US dollar	xix+ 332	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Weird Tales, July 1925	1925-07-00	ed. Farnsworth Wright	Popular Fiction Publishing Co.		$0.25^?$: US dollar	148	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Andrew Brosnatch
Speak of the Devil	1945-07-00	ed. C. B. Boutell, Sterling North	Doubleday, Doran		$3.00^?$: US dollar	xi+ 334	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Salvador Dali
Contes du lundi	1954-09-30	Alphonse Daudet	Éditions du Panthéon (Pastels)			287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Magazine of Horror, June 1965	1965-06-00	ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes	Health Knowledge, Inc.		$0.50^?$: US dollar	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Fred Wolters
Contes fantastiques de Noël	1997-10-00	ed. Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière	Librio (Librio #197)	2-277-30197-3	F10.00^?F: French frank	156	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Philippe Jozelon
Contes fantastiques de Noël	1998-10-00	ed. Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière	Librio (Librio #197)	2-277-30197-3	F10.00^?F: French frank	156	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Philippe Jozelon
Weird Tales, July 1925	2005-11-00	ed. Farnsworth Wright	Girasol Collectables		$35.00^?$: US dollar	148	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	anth	Andrew Brosnatch
Devil Stories: An Anthology	2010-03-24	ed. Maximilian J. Rudwin	Project Gutenberg	31754	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Talk of the Devil: Twenty-Four Classic Short Stories of the Fallen Angel	2010-10-06	ed. Maximilian J. Rudwin	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-237-6	£10.99^?£: UK pound	272	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Talk of the Devil: Twenty-Four Classic Short Stories of the Fallen Angel	2010-10-06	ed. Maximilian J. Rudwin	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-238-3	£18.99^?£: UK pound	272	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Devil Stories: An Anthology	2013-10-11	ed. Maximilian J. Rudwin	CreateSpace	978-1-4929-6611-1	$9.99^?$: US dollar	244	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Weird Tales	2019-00-00	ed. uncredited	Pulp Classics on DVD				other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	anth	Margaret Brundage
Contes du lundi	date unknown	Alphonse Daudet	Nelson (France) (Grande Collection Nelson #127)			377+ vi	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Lettres de mon moulin	date unknown	Alphonse Daudet	Nelson (France) (Grande Collection Nelson #4)			283+ v	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll

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Reviews

Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)